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174 History University of Illinois **0n the farm they have erected a boarding house, twenty by fifty-six, with an L extending back seventy feet, and a college building forty by sixty. They have also furnished extensive philosophical, astronomical, and chemical apparatus, to which have been added, during the year, a valuable collection of geological specimens, and a laboratory for illustrations in practical chemistry/ * 8 The institution was opened for work in 1866, but it was already apparent to the managers that the funds were inadequate for obtaining the necessary outfit of shops and implements; for the employment of mechanical and agricultural experts for teachers in the practical way required; even a model farm was beyond immediate attainment. In order to secure a wider range of study, the legislature of 1867, granted the institution permission to give instruction in subjects that would make it more popular and more useful. What the college had developed into by 1868 is learned from the same report of the state superintendent of public instruction: "This college includes pupils of both sexes. It has a preparatory course, and a collegiate; in the latter, as at present laid out, the Latin and Greek languages occupy but a very subordinate place, and are optional, while the sciences relative to agriculture have a special prominence. Eegular classes are formed in the collegiate department. The Board of Instruction includes the following: The President (Rev. D. P. French) who is Professor of Mental and Moral Science,.and of practical Agriculture: a Professor of Ancient Languages and of Mathematics; a Professor of Law (Thomas Quick, Esq.); a Professor of Natural Science; and a Professor of Military Tactics, Horticulture and a Commercial Course Each county in the state can send one student free of charge for tuition, the county court selecting the person. The catalog of 1867-1868 names eight counties in southern Illinois that have used the privilege." Affairs of the Illinois "agricultural college0 did not run smoothly. In 1869 the legislature instructed a committee to investigate rumors that had come to it in regard to this instin Tbid.f 258. B K
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