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38 History University of Illinois The Horticulturist of New York in July, 1852, published the main part of the plan. The editor, the well-known A. J. Downing, said in a note preceding the plan: "The leaven of the necessity for education among the industrial classes, begins to work, we are happy to perceive in many parts of the country. Massachusetts is likely to be the first to set an agricultural school on a comprehensive scale, in operation—but we see indications of marked interest in half a dozen other states. At a Farmers' Convention in Illinois our correspondent, Professor Turner, of that state, submitted a plan for such an educational institution, which has since been published in pamphlet form. We think the importance of the subject one that will be sufficient apology for allowing the Professor to be heard by a large audience. It is not often that the weak points of an ordinary collegiate education are so clearly exposed, and the necessity of workingmen's universities so plainly demonstrated."24 The plan appeared in full or in part in many of the Illinois newspapers. On November 29,1851, the Illinois Journal printed an account of the proceedings of the Granville convention; in December of the same year the proposition was carefully reviewed by the Illinois State Register and during the next few years many other papers throughout the state joined in the discussion of the plan. It was published in the Report of the Illinois state board of agriculture for 1851 and appeared also in the first volume of the Transactions of the Illinois state agricultural society a few years later.25 Outside of Illinois prominent newspapers and agricultural journals published the plan and commented upon it. The New York Daily Tribune of June 17, 1852, in discussing briefly Governor French's message to the Illinois legislature said that Governor French did not directly advocate an agricultural college but mentioned that project as having been amply considered by a convention at Granville, the result of which will be laid before the legislature; on August 28,1852, the same paper printed large portions of the plan and made favorable comment upon it. In the same year the Buffalo Patriot printed it through a series of u The Horticulturist, 7:806. "TUuiois State Agricultural Society, Transactions, 1:368-382.
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