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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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IX RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND II STATE The Less Tangible Service of the University to the State. The University as Regulator of the High Schools. Investigative and Extension Activities in Agriculture. The Smith-Lever Act. Practical Engineering and Scientific Investigations. The State Offices at Urbana. Historical Work. Miscellaneous State Services. IT is a truism that the interest of the average democratic community in an institution of higher education never manifests itself in spontaneous general support, but must be stimulated. Certain groups may voluntarily offer whole-hearted assistance; aside from them, there is a vast deal of indifference and inertia to be overcome. It was twenty years, as we have seen, before Illinois had commenced to overcome it, and more than forty before she had sufficiently done so to be sure of her future. She won her way to the hearts of the people, in the main, by turning out men and women skilled to serve them; by the insensible results .of her purely educational activity, and the steady uplifting of popular spiritual and intellectual ideals. To a lesser extent, she has done it through the making of investigations, through the construction of commercial and mechanical devices, and through adding to the material resources of the State in various ways. The University has never forgotten that its principal 838
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