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Industrial Universities for the People 401 These colleges desired to be made, themselves, the instruments through which the funds of the State should be applied to the education of the industrial classes. This, the representatives of these classes have at all times, in all their conventions, unanimously and steadfastly opposed. At that meeting, however, the following memorial was presented to the Legislature: ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL CONVENTION. Memorial of the Industrial Convention of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois. The Convention of the friends of the Industrial University, proposed to the consideration of the people of Illinois, by the Granville convention, whose report is alluded to in the message of the Governor of the State, beg leave to submit to the consideration of the Senators and Representatives of the people, the following memorial: But three general modes have been publicly proposed for the use of the College and Seminary funds of the State. I. The perpetual continuance of their use for common school purposes, is not seriously expected by any one, but only their temporary use as a loan for this noble object. II. The equal distribution of their proceeds among the ten or twelve colleges in charge of the various religious denominations of the State, either now in existence or soon to arise and claim their share in these funds, and the equally just claim of Medical and other Institutions for their share, it is thought by your memorialists, would produce too great a division to render these funds of much practical value either to these Institutions or to the people of the State. Nor do they consider that it would make any practical difference, in this regard, whether the funds were paid directly by the State over to the Trustees of these Institutions, or disbursed indirectly through a new board of overseers or Regents to be called the University of Illinois. The plan of attempting to elect by State authority, some smaller number of these Institutions to enjoy the benefit of the funds, on the one hand, to the exclusion of others, or attempting to endow them
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