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Illinois Plan for Land Grant Colleges 48 see no remarkable adaptedness of the simile of the Professors, who propose a 'railway balloon to the moon\ The designs of the friends of the Industrial University are practical— not chimeras; and are such as practical men ought not to oppose 1 " We need go no farther in the examination of the article by the Professors of the Mount Morris Institution. I t is evident that under all circumstances they are unwilling that an institution for education shall be established in this State, which shall have the confidence and the patronage, and be the pride of the great mass of its Industrial citizens. If we are mistaken in this view of the matter, we shall be glad; but we act and speak under the lights given us. We are for educating the masses.. " 3 2 On the day appointed by President Kennicott the friends of industrial education met in Chicago in their third convention. The representatives of the small colleges understood that they were not invited, were not wanted; and remembering, too, their unhappy experiences at the June convention in Springfield, they concluded, perhaps wisely, not to go. Chiefly for this reason there was entire harmony in this November meeting with the result that much of value was accomplished. The convention voted to approve every feature of the Granville plan, to memorialize congress for a grant of land to endow an industrial university in each state, to establish an industrial league and to carry on a strenuous campaign of education on behalf of an industrial university among the people. I t declared, moreover, that the university which it hoped to obtain in Illinois should be coeducational, should maintain a department for the training of teachers, and should recognize labor as one of its most important elements. Finally a committee was appointed to devise a working plan of an institution such as that contemplated by the convention, and the proposition to use the seminary funds to endow it was endorsed. The establishment of the industrial league, which was devised and suggested by Mr. Murray, was most important for the work the Illinois men were endeavoring to carry forward. It "Illinois Journal, December 8, 1852.
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