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History University of Illinois PRELIMINARY MEETING

At a meeting of citizens held at Jacksonville, February 5th, 1866, and by nomination of the Standing Committee of Morgan County, the following gentlemen were appointed to prepare and publish an address to the citizens of the county on the subject of securing the location of the Industrial University of this State in Morgan County.

DR. A. McFABLAND, I. L. MORRISON, ESQ., PROP. W. D. SANDERS, DR. J. H. BROWN, J. T. HOLMES, PETER ROBERTS, JAMES McMASTERS, WM. S. PURCELL, 0. P. REAUGH, JOHN GORDON, OLIVER COULTER, WM. COULTER, SAMUEL FRENCH, O. J. THOMPSON, EDWARD LUSK, O. D. CRITZER, DR. WACKLY, PROP. J. B. TURNER, CYRUS EPLER, ESQ., JOHN C. SALTER, J. W, MEACHAM, SAMUEL WOODS, DANIEL DEDRKTK, DR. J. DETRITCH, DAVID G. HENDERSON, ISAAC STOCKTON, JOHN T. ALEXANDER, STEPHEN DUNLAP, DR. SAM'L L. WEAGLY, DR. WINN, ISAAC R. BENNETT, JAMES H. SELF, JESSE HENRY.

TO THE CITIZENS OF MORGAN COUNTY. At a meeting attended by a large number of the most influential citizens of this county, the undersigned were appointed as a committee to present a subject of more importance to the material interests of the county than any ever before introduced to your notice. As the subject has an issue which must be reached within a short time, we ask for it your thoughtful and candid consideration. For many years, attention has been directed in search of a system of education, in the higher grades, better adapted to fit young men for the practical duties of life than that pursued in the now existing colleges. I t is believed that the progress and wants of the country, and the new aspects and aims of labor, point to a system in which the practical arts shall be the predominating feature/ It is not intended that the proposed system shall supercede or stand in opposition to that now pursued in our colleges; but that it shall be framed to meet the requirements