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120

YEARS OF DEPRESSION

for it in work; and there were few students who were not asked many times how many hours they were obliged to spend in manual labor. Farmers, again, often had the idea that an industrial school was an agricultural school, and that alone. I t is no wonder that the lllini once proclaimed angrily that "this is not a home for the feeble-minded, that hopeless reprobates are not received in charge, and that the dairy on the farm is not to supply milk to orphans." The only similar seat of the same name was the Arkansas Industrial University. As the students became alumni they carried the dislike of the name with them, and as alumni they felt more and more impelled to have it changed. The Chicago Club, eager to assist the University in every way possible, had at this time set itself a tripartite program. Its members wished to dispel an ignorance so great that few in the Northwest, few even in the State, knew that Illinois had a University equipped to give 'the best instruction" to a much larger number of students than it had; they wished to popularize the choice of the Trustees; but above all, they wished to alter the name of the institution. Their executive committee circularized all the newspapers, and the other alumni were reached and organized in a manner that would prove effective in the Legislature. Meanwhile, the Regent assisted by repeating his objections to the name, while the faculty carried the matter before the public in various ways. Finally, Senator M. B. Thompson, of Urbana, and Representative W. F. Calhoun, of Clinton, were intrusted with a bill drawn up by Mr. Going, of Chicago. This measure met with fierce opposition. Many of the University's best friends opposed the change, and the farm papers were unanimously against