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Illinois Plan for Land Grant Colleges 15 the work in other states, anxiously, thoroughly, hoping for light When they found light, they had thankfully appropriated it, in some cases they had emulated methods employed in New York and Massachusetts. They were well acquainted with existing conditions therefore when they declared that up to 1851 little or nothing of real consequence to the cause of industrial education had been accomplished. This was the situation when in accordance with a call by the Buel institute, which was an agricultural society with members from Putnam and five other counties of north central Illinois, a convention of farmers met at Granville, Putnam county, Illinois, on Tuesday the 18th of November, 1851.2 The attendance, made up of farmers and others, was reported as quite large and from various parts of the state. The convention organized with the following permanent officers: Mr. Oaks Turner of Hennepin, president; Mr. William Reddick of Ottawa and Mr. J. B. Turner, vice-presidents; Mr. M. Osman of Ottawa, recording secretary; Mr. Ealph "Ware of Granville, corresponding secretary. The discussions held in the afternoon were spirited, and at the evening session a committee on business of which J. B. Turner was chairman reported a series of five resolutions as a guide for the future action of the convention: "Resolved, That we greatly rejoice in the degree of perfection to which, our various institutions, for the education of our brethren engaged in professional, scientific, and literary pursuits, have already attained, and in the mental and moral elevation which these institutions have given them, and their consequent preparation and capacity for the great duties in the spheres of life in which they are engaged; and that we will aid in all ways consistent, for the still greater perfection of such institutions. "Resolved, That as the representatives of the industrial classes, including all cultivators of the soil, artisans, mechanics At its fair in September, 1851, the Buel institute determined to hold a farmersy convention at Granville in November, " t o take into consideration such measures as might be deemed expedient to further the interests of the agricultural community, and particularly to take steps toward the establishment of an Agricultural University. f ' Illinois School Beport, 1886-1888. p. cxix. a
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