UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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CONTENTS

Page Documentary Sources ix List of Illustrations x . Introduction xi The Beginning of the Struggle... 1 The Illinois Plan for a System of Land Grant Colleges 14 The Activity of the Industrial League 58 Illinois Plan before Congress 92 Final Period of the Land Grant Proposition 115 The Men Who Led 128 Seminary and College Funds and the Various Attempts to Establish an Agricultural College or State University 156 Illinois Accepts the Donation of Congress and Considers its Disposition, 1862-1865 178 Preparation for the Final Struggle for the Location of the Industrial University 211 Contest in Legislature of 1867: University Located. 241 The Illinois Industrial University Organizes for Work 272 The First Two Years of University Work 308 First Board of Trustees and the First Faculty 338 Appendix 357 Document No. 1 Letter—Turner to Blanchard 357 Document No. 2 Industrial Universities for the People 365 Document No. 3 John Evan's Plan 427 Document No. 4 Letter—Lumsden to Turner 430 Document No. 5 Memorial of 1853 to Legislature ..431 Document No. 6 Letter—Murray to Turner. 433 Document No. 7 Murray's Suggestions for a University 435 Document No. 8 Letter—Kennicott to Trumbull ; 438 Document No. 9 Petitions to Congress 439

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