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554 History University of Illinois University; President Hitchcock of Amherst College; Prof. Heniy of the Smithsonian Institute, and many other distinguished scholars; and have since been incorporated into several colleges in New York and other states, and laid at the foundation of the Farmers1 College in Ohio, one of the largest institutions west of the mountains, and more recently adopted by the universities of Missouri and Michigan. Says President Tappan, who presides over the latter university, in a recent letter to one of the members of the proposed board: "The question is a good deal discussed in our state, whether a distinct agricultural school shall be established, or whether it shall be connected with the university. My hope is that you will proceed to establish a university; whether you proceed to the one or the other, I conceive that a model farm is of the greatest importance. I am very anxious to have one established in connection with the university of Michigan. The great point is to make the people see this simple fact that the university is as truly a popular institution as the common school. We ought to begin with the highest institution; neither knowledge or water run up hill.'' Dr. Cutter, author of the books bearing his name, which are recommended by our state superintendent, in a similar letter, says in reference to this institution, January 8th, last: " I endorse the principles fully, yes more, I will add my mite to the efforts for the practical endowment of the same, east, west, north and south. I feel that success in this matter is only a question of time. Let there be a new institution created, so that there be no conservative impediments to its free and full operation. I beg make a model new institution in central Illinois; ask no less than this, accept no less than this. \ jj The bill proposing these advantages, is guarded in its provisions, and moderate in its demands. 1st. | p t guards the institution from that political or partisan control, which has proved the destruction of so many state institutions. 2nd. In H m | this prk^plc of almost universal failure, it adopts | ^ m l | f f l which Ira in all states proved as almost *f A J j i Jfl m
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