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THE UNIVERSITY OK ILLINOIS

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individual, will make reasonable amends for any lack of strong men who have been diverted from the larger institutions to the smaller ones.

RELATIONS WITH OTHER INSTITUTIONS

One who disparages any genuine educational instrumentality only discredits himself and deals his own institution a vital blow. In education, the more one gives to another the richer he becomes. Meanness defeats itself. We have many educational instrumentalities in this country. They are all to be encouraged, for they all form part of the public educational system. Private educational enterprise is to be commended. A State has a right to found a university. The very end of a democratic state is education. The people have a right to set up a university of their own which shall stimulate and guide their own thinking and bring the benefits of higher learning to all of their industrial and commercial affairs. But that university has no right to ask any special favors from the common power which may discourage personal enterprise or discredit private undertakings unless imperative to the general good and essential to the general ends for which it is maintained. All are bound to work together in mutual respect and fraternal regard, and so long as all are guided by reasonable intelligence and actuated by sound motives there will be no difficulty about it.

LOOKING FORWARD

The University of Illinois has advanced strongly in recent years. The growth of all the state universities in the Middle-West in the last decade has surprised the country, and has been very significant of the purpose of the people concerning the higher learning; but the advance in Illinois has been more decisive than in any other state. Yet we need not plume ourselves too much upon this. Illinois had given less support to her University than any other state in the Mississippi Valley up to ton years ago; and Illinois has had more at stake and more to give than any other s t a t e There has been room enough