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Industrial Universities for the People DESIGN OF THE INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS. OFFICERS PRINCIPAL DIRECTOR, 425 J. B. TURNER, Jacksonville. ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS, JOHN GAGE, Lake Co. BRONSON MURRAY, La Salle L. S. PENNINGTON, Whiteside co. J. T. LITTLE, Fulton Co. W M . A. PENNEL, Putnam County co. I. There are now in the hands of the State of Illinois, $150,000 in money, and about seventy-two sections of land selected at an early period, and probably worth as much more. II. The land and money, was donated by the General Government, to this State, as a trust fund, apart from and independent of the Common School Fund. III. With this fund the State is required by Congress to establish a STATE UNIVERSITY or High Seminary of learning. IV. The members of this industrial league are such, and such only, of the inhabitants of the State of Illinois, as desire that when this State Seminary is established, it shall be upon the following rational and impartial principles: V. It shall be designed to furnish to the great Industrial classes of the State, our Farmers, Merchants and Mechanics, each in their own sphere, the same thorough, liberal and practical education in those various sciences underlying their several pursuits, and in all processes, principles, and arts connected therewith, as our colleges and professional schools now afford to their students of Theology, Medicine, Law, and the art of War; and shall be provided with all needful apparatus, lands, grounds, gardens, animals, drawings, models, instruments and engines, for the proper elucidation of the same—as other schools are provided with their necessary apparatus.
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