UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
N A V I G A T I O N D I G I T A L L I B R A R Y
Bookmark and Share



Repository: UIHistories Project: Book - History of the University (Nevins) [PAGE 132]

Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.


Jump to Page:
< Previous Page [Displaying Page 132 of 399] Next Page >
[VIEW ALL PAGE THUMBNAILS]




EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:



DR. FORBES COMES

117

had already been issued to him and Scovell covering the processes, or parts of them.. He kindly but firmly protested, for he realized that if this action became known the public would harshly condemn the University. The rural population, as he told the Trustees, had been led to believe that these experiments had been conducted by its college, founded largely for its benefit, and designed to disseminate industrial information. It believed itself the proprietor of the information gained through the University's funds and equipment, and must resent sequestration of its property. The two professors protested, but the Trustees first condemned them, and in 1882, following opinions offered by the Governor and Attorney General, discharged them; it is good to know that, though they set up a plant in Urbana, they found no profit in the patents. But in extension lecturing, particularly in agriculture, the University perceptibly stimulated interest in itself. Morrow had little to do except devote himself to the farmers' institutes, and he did this with such zeal that in 1887 Peabody remarked that his teaching was suffering. A year later the Regent estimated that the number of agricultural, educational, and other gatherings attended by the faculty was over 100, and the number of addresses delivered over 200. In that spring alone the indefatigable Morrow had appeared at 31 farmers' meetings, and Prof. Forbes at nearly as many. A notable gain to the instruction and to University prestige was felt when in 1884 Prof. Stephen A. Forbes came from the Normal University to teach zoology and entomology, bringing with him the office of State Entomologist. His other office as director ofShe State Laboratory of Natural History, which he had founded