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Seminary and College Funds 169 under whose auspices it had been established and conducted, found it a great financial burden and on numerous occasions had offered it for sale. Finally in 1873, under foreclosure proceedings, it was sold to the "Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other states." Since then the building has been used to house a seminary. Concordia theological seminary, the present occupant of that old building of 1854, may be considered in a way a descendant of the "Illinois state university; ? \ very certainly is this true if it still operates, as its president thinks, under the charter granted by the legislature in 1853.26 For a decade after 1853 the attempts by the state to establish higher educational institutions were greatly influenced by the industrial educational movement then in full progress in the state. The first of these attempts was conducted by George L. Lumsden, a member of the legislature and a friend of Turner and Murray, who early in 1853 introduced a bill to incorporate the "Industrial university of the state of Illinois." The bill which was referred to the judiciary committee in the senate and later reported and tabled as Lumsden intended,27 contained the following provisions as stated by Lumsden in a letter to Turner: " • * * My dear friend—dismiss all your fears about the Act of Incorporation. It is only the first step to getting on our feet and to having a tangible existence. See the 1st Section. "Be it enacted etc. that Bronson Murray, L. S. Pennington, John Gage, Augustus C. French, L. "W. Weston, H. C. Johns, D. L. G-regg, J* T. Little, D. Prince, John Russell, James Davis, Simeon Francis, W. F. M. Arney, William A. Pennell, John A. Kennicott, James Schoff, Alext. Starve, John B. Weber, and Joel A. Matteson, be and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic, for the purpose of founding and maintaining an institution of Learning to be known by the name of the Industrial University of the State of Illinois. "2nd Section 'Said corporation shall be known by the style and name of the Board of Trustees of the Industrial University of the State of Illinois, and by that name and style reT o r a history of the institution see ' \ Flinfzig Jahriges Jubilaum dies Concordia Seminars zu Springfield, HI. ? t "See letter of Lumsdon to Murray, above p. 62.
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