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Caption: Book - Early History of University (1916)
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HISTORICAL, SKETCH still in fancy on hearing.'' AVith a state its opportunities prediction of its XXXIX this meeting and think on the predictions this day made in your such as Illinois, rich in resources and central in location, realizing in its state university, there is every reason to believe that the founders will be realized at no distant time. W H E R E T O ' L E A R N ABOUT T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S I. Original Sources (1) " T h e Laws of the United States and State of Illinois Concerning the University of Illinois." (Collection of the acts of the acts of the Federal Congress and the State Legislature relating to the University.) (2) Various official publications: a. Reports of theBoard of Trustees b. Historical addresses, especially by Regents Gregory and Peabody. c. Illinois School Reports, published by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, giving biennial reports of presidents of the University. The 1912-14 Report, pages 163-400, is the most exhaustive onevolume account of the University a t present available. d. Annual catalog (circular or register, as it has been variously called.) e. Champaign and Urbana newspapers. f. Alumni Quarterly, especially articles on " M a k e r s of the Univers i t y " , Gregory Reunion Addresses, etc. (3) Scientific Publications a. Bulletins of the Engineering Experiment Station. b. Bulletins of the Agricultural Experiment Station c. University Studies. (4) Student Publications a. Daily Illini (founded as monthly, The Student, • 1871; became a newspaper, under name of Illini, 1899.) b. Illio (founded 1894.) c. Illinois Magazine (founded 1902.) d. The Siren (founded 1911.) e.' Agriculturist (founded 1895.) f. Technograph. Other Sources (1) The University of Illinois by W. L. Pillsbury (in the 17th Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Illinois.) (2) Jonathan Baldwin Turner by W. L. Pillsbury (in the Transactions of the Illinois State Historial Society.) (3) The Origin of the Land Grant Act of 1862, monograph by Edmund J . James, 1910. (4) University of Illinois. Edwin E. Slosson in scries of American Universities in the Independent, September 2, 1909. (5) Facts for Freshmen concerning the University of Illinois, Clark and Warnock (containing information especially for students coming to the University for the first time.) (6) University of Illinois, by Allan Nevens, in Oxford University series of University Histories (in preparation). II.
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