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Activiiy Illinois Industrial League 91 From the evidence produced it seems very clear that the Illinois industrial league backed as it was by a devoted group of vigorous men had prepared the way not only in Illinois but in many states of the union for an effective support of the land grant proposition for industrial universities when it should be brought before congress in the form of a bill. I t is known now that for several years before the introduction of the land grant bill in congress legislatures, state officers, congressmen, state and county agricultural societies, presidents of universities and colleges, members of boards of trustees of educational institutions, and prominent private citizens, in states as far west as Oregon and as far east as New York, had been well informed concerning this project and their cooperation had been secured by this same group of Illinois men. One need not be surprised, then, that when the bill was actually introduced into congress by a man who had not been identified with this nation wide movement up to this time, a flood of petitions in support of it came in from all these various bodies and organizations, from California, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Illinois, and other states.
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