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Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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THE UNIVERSITY OK ILLINOIS 27 fcation from a recent letter to THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT from Hon. 8. N. I>. North, a Boston statistician and economist of wide experience and keen insight, just appointed Dirt tor of the United States Census by the President. The letter was written to protest against the treatment of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by the State of Massachusetts. Mr. North speaking not to Illinois but to Massachusetts, says: " D u r i n g a recent visit to the University of Illinois, I was profoundly impressed with the generosity with which the people of that State have equipped that great institution of learning. In number of buildings, in size, in architectural beauty, and in the most modern facilities for work, this plant is not inferior to that of any Eastern university. * * * * There have been single sessions of the legislature which have voted to the University more money than Ma ichusetts has appropriated for all educational purposes combined in fifty years. These grants are not made reckle ly ; they are carefully considered and deliberately ordered in the belief that no possible investment of the people's money will yield so quick and so satisfactory a return. What is true of Illinois is true in no less degree of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and other Western States. More and more the youth of these States are turning to their own institutions for education. Less and le , as the years pa *, will these young men and women attend our Eastern colleges and technical schools; and we must have a are lest the time shall come when Eastern hoys will And it to their advantage to seek- these Western Universities in order to enjoy the highest and most complete facilities in their UA S of study " Let the e groat Central States press on in genuine and hom ,t educational rivalry, with characteristic enthusiasm and with entire confidence. And let Illinois remember that if she is to maintain a I'niversity at all she is bound to maintain one which is not only in the first class, but that she iH bound to help it U) the very head of that daw And let her re M/o that when it comes to rivalry with the
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