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Suggestions for an Industrial University DOCUMENT NUMBER 7 Turner manuscripts, Springfield, III. 435 SUGGESTIONS FOR BASIS OP ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY Take for general outline say Farmer's College, Ohio, then say 1st. The dead languages shall not be taught at least til the Institution is competent to give a full course in all the practical & useful sciences aided by all the instruments and apparatus needful and useful in demonstrating and elucidating the same. 2nd. A large barn or other building as a depository for machines and models as well as implements to be used upon the farm. 3rd. Any patentee of the United States who shall send to the Institution his model and any manufacturer of machines or other article who shall send a fair working sample of his manufacture may have the same exhibited under such general rules as the Trustees shall provide in the building aforesaid. Such machines -models to become the property of the Trustees. 4th. Lectures upon Mechanics and the Sciences generally (so far as practicable) to be given with the machinery and articles they relate to before the student, demonstrating what is taught. 5th. This barn or building at all times to be open to the public. 6th. There shall be attached to the Institution not less than 1000 acres donated by the people among whom the Institution is located. 7th. A portion of this set aside for sale in y2 acre lots to persons who shall contract to erect residences satisfactory to the Trustees Sales to be by auction yearly. 8th. Another portion set apart for an Experimental farm, which being explorative in its character will be expected to sink money. 9th. Another portion set apart for a model or demonstrative farm upon which will be shown what knowledge is acquired
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