| |
| |
Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
I TURNER AND THE FOUNDING OP THE UNIVERSITY Belated Nature of the Movement for a State University in Illinois. Mismanagement of the State's Educational Funds. Jonathan Baldwin Turner and the Movement for Industrial Education. The Granville and Other Conventions. Lincoln and the Passage of the Morrill Act. Struggle over the Location of the University. C. R. Griggs and the Choice of Urbana. THE University of Illinois, as a State University, is in large degree representative of the social character, the work, the culture, and the ambitions of the State. But it must be understood that as a representative of the commonwealth, believed in and supported by it, its history is short, dating only from about 1890. The general record of the University falls into four distinct parts. Through the efforts of Jonathan B. Turner and others in the fifties and sixties, it was brought into being in 1867 as an embodiment of the movement for industrial and agricultural education. Under its first two heads, John Milton Gregory and S. H. Peabody, it somehow found its feet and maintained its place against financial difficulties, legislative neglect, the hostility of some interests and the contempt of others, but without achieving real character as a University. About 1890 it began to receive stronger State support, to attract a larger registration, and to widen its scope, the energy and administrative ability of Andrew Sloan Draper carrying it steadily forward from 1894 until a decade
| |
