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University Organizes 11 305 Compliments to the board of trustees were delivered thus: Between the Trustees, some of whom are incompetent, others of whom are careless in their duties, and still others of whom have an eye to bringing the institution under theological control, between these Trustees and the Faculty, composed for the greater part of preachers who are ignorant of Science in its application to industry, we shall have—let the course of study adopted at the University of Illinois tell what!" The university, of course, could not be conducted long on either flowery eloquence or virulent criticism. Real, consistent, hard, every day labor must be performed and to do this the faculty was employed. In addition to the regent and the two professors elected in November, a fourth man was added during the spring term. On the first day recitations were held Judge Cunningham stepped into a recitation room where the regent was teaching mathematics. • Dr. Gregory said that he really had not the time for such work but was compelled to do it because he had been unable to find a suitable man for the position. Cunningham recommended the principal of the Urbana schools, Thomas J. Burrill, who had accompanied Major Powell on his "Rocky Mountain" expedition the previous summer, as an enthusiastic and promising young man. The fact that the Urbana schools closed early for lack of funds to continue, made it possible for Burrill to accept the place in the faculty of the new university in April. Thus began one of the most noteworthy educational careers in the middle west, a career that ended only when death claimed him, a simple grand old man too busy to realize it could be quitting time. The first faculty meeting of the university was held on March 13, a few days after the inaugural exercises. The record of the first two meetings is brief but reveals much j | | J "1868 1. Friday evening, March 13th. A meeting of the Faculty of the Illinois Industrial University was held this evening at the room of the Regen1>—Present, the Regent (Dr. Gregory), Prof. Baker and Prof. Atherton.
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