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82 $| History University of Illinois but they IT&M that old colleges could accomplish this desirable result better than a new Institution. While we unanimously went for a new school, on new principles and in new hands, to suit this new thought of educating hand-workers as well as headworkers, in the knowledge of things next to them, and place the brain that conceives and directs, in the same body that furnished the hands to execute the devices of the mind." 15 The convention organized temporarily with J. B. Turner as president and W. H. Powell of LaSalle as secretary. On motion of J. A. Kennicott the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved, That all delegates be considered members of this convention, who, by their own showing are the friends of practical industrial education, and who desire the concentration of the means and influences for that purpose." 10 Permanent officers were chosen as follows: president, John A. Kennicott of Cook County; first vice-president, Mr. Little of Fulton county; second vice-president, Joseph Morton of Morgan; secretary, W. H. Powell of LaSalle. A committee on business reported the following which was adopted: "1st—The consideration of the principles of a practical education, with a view of gaining some definite idea of the object to be aimed at by the convention. 2nd—The consideration of the plan submitted by J. B. Turner to the Granville Convention, with the view of ascertaining its adaptation to the proposed subject. 3rd—The adoption of some specific plan by the Convention to be recommended to the legislature, with a view to obtaining appropriations to carry out." 17 During the afternoon and evening of June 8th and on June 9th a lively controversy was carried on between the advocates of the new industrial idea and the representatives of the old classical colleges who had been admitted on invitation of Kennicott. Early in the discussion Turner raised the point of order that the convention had met in pursuance of a call issued by ^Prairie Farmer, August, 1$52. 19 Prairie Farmer, August, 1852. 17 Prairie Farmer, August, 1852.
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