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Illinois Plan for Land Orant Colleges

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And to accomplish similar work for ourselves and for posterity, is the object of our convention today." 4 1 By virtue of the resolution adopted by the third convention the chair appointed A. C. French, D. L. Gregg, and L. S. Pennington a committee to memorialize congress on the subject of a grant of land for the establishment of an industrial university. At the evening session this committee, by Dr. Pennington reported the form of memorial to be sent to congress. 42 The committee on business, Murray, Lumsden, and Gray reported several matters of importance for the consideration of the convention, and after a careful discussion a recommendation was made in each instance. In pursuance of the will of the convention the chair appointed Turner of Morgan, Weston of LaSalle, and Dychus of Sangamon a committee to consult with the newly organized state agricultural society in regard to securing a periodical which would serve as the official organ of the industrial league and of the agricultural society as well. I t was decided that the officers of the league should hold their positions until others should be chosen at a regularly called meeting; that the directors of the league should be instructed to take charge of the records and documents of the league and deliver them to the secretary, when that officer should be elected; that the principal director should be ex-officio treasurer and should report to his associate directors annually; that a meeting of the league might be called at any time by a vote of the majority of the members. In regard to the forming of a detailed plan for the proposed industrial university the convention resolved that it was not expedient to consider such a matter io popular mee+ings, and that it should be left to the trustees of the new institution. The recommendation of the committee that material throwing light on the needs of the working classes be read before the convention was adopted and fulfilled; a similar provision regarding newspaper extracts dealing with industrial universities was referred to a later meeting. The proposition to provide a

*The address was given in fuU in Ottawa Free Trader, January 22, 1853. His mention of the institution established in New York from the movement in Illinois has reference to the Buffalo Patriot copying Turner's plan. See above, p. 38. 4a For summary of this memorial see below, p. 52; for the memorial itself see appendix, p. 431.