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294 History University of Illinois very naturally out of the construction each put upon the law of the university. According to the language of the grant "the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts," Of the "teaching of such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts," Dunlap said: "These it made its duty—a mandatory order that should be obeyed. But this was not all; there were other classes that might in the course of time come under the sunshine of its usefulness, and a permission was implied that after the first mandatory order was obeyed, and there were funds for the purpose, other 'classical and scientific studies' might be pursued but until that period arrived, the school should be for the sole benefit of those who belonged to those industries. Such is the law and such is the expectation of the people." In Gregory's opinion the phrase "without excluding other scientific and classical studies," implied that such studies should rank equally with the branches of learning related to agriculture and the mechanic arts and be provided for at the same time. Compared with colleges of law and medicine "its central educational courses, while equally broad and liberal, are to be selected to fit men for the study and mastery of the great branches of industry, rather to serve as introductions to the studies of law, medicine, or theology."30 It was not long before this difference of opinion began to cause dissension. A prominent graduate who came as a student with the class that entered in the autumn of 1868 says: "M. L. Dunlap gave the new president his earnest support until the proposed curriculum of studies revealed Latin and Greek as the corner stones of the contemplated new structure and also when it developed that every student was l advised? by the president to take Latin as one of his basic studies. " 8 1 Dunlap felt sure of his position, for he believed that it squared fully with that of the founders of the institution. As far back as 1855, when the agriculturists introduced a bill into "Chicago Tribune, November 2, 1868. "Private letter of March 12, 1917.
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