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Caption: Book - History of the University (Powell)
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Struggle for Location 1865-1867 211 CHAPTER IX PREPARATION FOR THE FINAL STRUGGLE FOR THE LOCATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY 1865-1867 After the adjournment of the general assembly in 1865 the various parties in the contest for the location of the industrial university were busy putting up their own fences and knocking the props from under those of their adversaries. Party lines were by this time very sharply drawn and the differences in principles or mere desires of the contestants were capable of definite statement. The Champaign county group earnestly desired to have the industrial university located in the Urbana-Champaign institute, and they preferred to have an undivided institution located in the seminary building, but if they could not get the whole they were equally determined to get a half or even a third. There was a certain bull-dog tenacity of purpose in their efforts that boded ill for their opponents. The agriculturists ' group was headed by Turner and the leaders in the state agricultural and horticultural societies. Some of them, who had been leaders in the movement for industrial education ever since the Granville convention of 1851, could not help the feeling and belief that they had a kind of proprietary right in this proposed university, the very possibility of which had been due in a large measure to their foresight and energy. They had fought and would continue to fight as a unit for a separate and distinct institution supported by undivided funds. They agreed that the best method of locating the institution was by a commission, but they disagreed necessarily on the question of place, for the members were scattered through the state and local interests made such appeal that the members were unable to stand as a unit opposed to Champaign county. The group
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