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Resolutions of First Board of Trustees DOCUMENT NUMBER 25 579 Resolutions passed by the first board of trustees at the March meeting 1868 but ordered later to be taken from the record. Brayman manuscripts, University of Illinois. Whereas, it is represented and understood throughout this State, that M. L. Durilap, Esq., of Champaign County, a member of this Board has, in publications, in newspapers, in letters, in public speeches, and in conversations, at various times and places, called in question, denounced and misrepresented the integrity, and official acts of this Board, its officers and committees, to the manifest injury of this Institution:—and whereas, the Illinois Industrial University cannot claim that public confidence and support which are indispensable to* success, while members of its Board of Trustees are laboring to impair that confidence and to overthrow measures already adopted to insure success:—And Whereas, further, it is the duty of this Board to protect its officers in the faithful performance of their duties, and to preserve fidelity, harmony and fraternal co-operation among its members: It is, therefore, Resolved, that this Board now proceed to inquire, by committee or otherwise, into the matters here stated, and thereupon to make upon the minutes of the proceedings, such record as the case may require. Offered by Mr. Brayman and adopted. March 11, 1868. The committee to which was referred the preamble and Resolutions concerning M, L. Dunlap a member of this Board, respectfully report. Your committee finds the general facts stated in the preamble to be true. The public mind has been disturbed concerning the management! of the Illinois Industrial University. The evident effort has been made to create the impression that the affairs of the Institution have been committed to incompetent and unworthy hands. The committee is satisfied that for a time a strong prejudice was awakened in the public mind ] and equally
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