Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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THE UNIVERSITY OE ILLINOIS. The ! oplo of Illinois established the University upon which t h e \ hestowod t h e n a m e of t h e i r S t a t e . T h e y did not merely empower a corporation to t t up a University fchej Bet up ne for themselves; the} did itfcopromote pur sof their own; they did it through their General Ai mbly, which upon matters educational noises sovereign p > er, <w They were moved to do tin it the time they did because of tho National Land-Grant Ad of L862. This A.c1 h 11 n a n issuo b e t w e e n t h e a gressiveness of the w -t and the < > rvatism of the east for years. It had h m n < once passed by Congress to he veto* I by an eastern ['re ident, Their own Lincoln had favored it; it was fitting that his h a n d should give it life. It was an epoch m a k i n g gtatui in world i lu« tion. It vow out of the natural trend ot democratic society unparalleled in the Freedom its thought and the forcefuhu of its doin . The men and v. in D Of th Dp] r Mississippi \ ' a l l e \ of fort) \ o a r s gO had deseeinh I from New Knirland ami New Iforfc \\\d Pennsylvania st< tnd well kn w the influence of tin advam i school I ut 1 « • \ had been limbered up bj west1« n li and dared t believe that the operations of tin >|] M lit to guide the thinking of fr< men towards tin I r L reat I \'*>v which democracy are set up, and that tIn •hihould h omel hing to do w ith the hand-work EH \ 1 a with the ophist ry and the i 1 ion of a people, There wa no educational anarchism, onlj freedom, a ut tin Phev tore down nothinc, hut they would not fm < ull who want••Mlii' u'lvuntu OH of th higher hooh to li rn I 11: ut, H w Inch wi'i ili'ud for th< mere ik< I ultur rid tin wouM ii i 'inn.- licit ill" power to thinl
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