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282 History University of Illinois certain rooms, grade the grounds, and otherwise improve the property which had figured so bravely in Champaign county's offer, so far as the sum of $7,850 made improvement possible. The date of opening the university was decided. It was to open its doors to students on Monday, March 2, 1868. The date was the result of a compromise. Some of the board believed it impossible to have a course of study worthy of offering so soon, others believed it should open much sooner. The next serious matter to be settled was the course of study. At the first meeting of the board a resolution had been adopted directing the appointment of a committee on courses of study. Governor Oglesby subsequently named as members of the committee, the regent of the university, Mason Brayman, S. S. Hayes, Willard C. Flagg, and Newton Bateman, then state superintendent of education. Gregory, Flagg, and Bateman were all schoolmen of ripe experience and Brayman and Hayes were men of long and close contact with the affairs of state both in public and private life. It is probable that the report of this committee was largely the work of Dr. Gregory, but his associates were all capable of contributing to the document which was to fill so large a place in the work of the university. From their correspondence it is learned that the associates did, in fact, spend time and energy in investigating various subjects, reported by the chairman of the committee. The proposed departments and courses of instruction were given as follows: " I . The Agricultural Department—Embracing: 1. The course in Agriculture proper; 2. The course in Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. " I I . The Polytechnic Department—Embracing: 1. The course in Mechanical Science and Art; 2. The course in Civil Engineering; 3. The course in Mining and Metallurgy; 4. The course in Architecture and fine Arts. ' " I I I . The Military Department—Embracing: 1. The course in Military Engineering; 2. The course in Military Tactics. 'IV. The Department of Chemistry and Natural Science. £ r wL If
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