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Caption: Course Catalog - 1895-1896
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LOCATION The University of Illinois has its seat in Champaign County, in the eastern central part of the state, between the cities of Champaign and Urbana, within the corporate limits of the latter. It is one hundred and twenty-eight miles southward from Chicago, at the junction of the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Wabash railroads. The situation is a beautiful one, and the "art that doth mend nature " has added rare charms to the grounds and surroundings. The country around is one of the richest and most prosperous agricultural regions of the world, and the local municipalities, with a combined population of 15,000, are noted for public spirit and high moral tone. HISTORY In 1862 the national government donated to each state in the Union public land scrip apportioned in quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each senator and representative in congress, " for the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, whose leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, * * * * in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life." Under this act Illinois received scrip for 480,000 acres of land subject to location in any surveyed but unoccupied part of the public domain. Twenty-five thousand acres were thus located in Nebraska and Minnesota, and the remainder of the scrip was sold for what it would bring. Or the land which was secured, about 14,000 acres have been sold at from $10.00 to $15.00 an acre. In compensation for waiting something more than a quarter of a century, the land when [23]
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