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Illinois Considers Disposition of Donation 185 ization of an agricultural college: there should be a single, new institution entirely separate from any existing college; the managing board of which should consist of five members residing in different parts of the state, no two in the same congressional district, who should be nominated by the executive board of the state agricultural society, approved by the governor, and confirmed by the senate; the college should be established after considering the offers of such localities as chose to make them at the point which in the judgment of a locating board, offered the greatest facilities and inducements; an experimental farm of not less than one hundred acres should be established in connection with the college; agricultural tests and experiments should be instituted in different sections of the state for the purpose of determining the adaptation of climate and soils to the productions of various grains, grasses, roots, fruits, and animals. These recommendations made by the committee headed by Turner, were adopted by the convention with minor changes. I t was added by resolution that each county and representative district should havj representatives among the students, and another that students should be at least seventeen years old to be admitted.14 A final resolution by Turner, suggested " t h a t while the final aim of the institution ought to be the highest that the human mind can conceive, and that a great people can ultimately execute, we should attempt to realize this high ideal by progressing toward it only by a slow and healthful growth, by the most cautious and limited expenditure of funds and resources from year to year." The convention provided a means of keeping the subject alive and before the people by appointing Eeynolds, Minier, and Turner to write articles for the Prairie Farmer and other papers, on the origin, history, and proposed uses of the congressional endowment. The agriculturists of the state were agreed on the chief principles involved in the disposition of the grant. "All the Conventions, and all the acts of Demagogue and Sophist in the world cannot change their minds now, I' wrote T u r n e r ; ' ' they know what they want and they intend to stick to it; others may indeed betray them; but they cannot change them. Oh, that u Prairie Farmer, January 16,1864.
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