Caption: Book - Gifts to the University (1867-1930)
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: INTRODUCTION The list of gifts to the University from \H(>y to date has been compiled by Mr. Harrison E. Cunningham, Secretary )i the Board of Trustees. Inasmuch as no such compilation has previously been made Mr. Cunningham has found considerable difficulty in getting together the necessary information. Sometimes the gifts were reported singly, and sometimes in lists at meetings of the Board; occasionally the lists were printed in the catalogue, which in the early years was printed as part of the Board's annual report. The latter lists often contain duplications. It is very likely that there are omissions, since records of such things in the earlier days are far from complete. If any reader knows of such an omission he will confer a favor by informing Mr. Cunningham. I am grateful to him for the painstaking labor he bestowed upon this piece of work. The University of Illinois has not been so favored as have some others in the way of receiving private gifts, although our institution has been making progress in winning the confidence of would-be donors. Doubtless our slow progress in this matter is due principally to the youth of the great body of our alumni. More than half of our alumni have been graduated in the past ten or twelve years. It is to be hoped, however, that with growing economic strength they and some of the older members of the alumni, as well as itizens not alumni, will feel inclined to make donations to the University. While it is true thai the bulk of our support must continue to be public appropriations, there are some things which a university needs for which it is difficult to (lire appropriations. I have in mind buildings and professorial endowments for such lines of work as art, arch ology, museums, etc. The Illinois Industrial University (the name under which the University of Illinois was established) was founded as the result of a donation of public lands by the Federal Gov eminent (th< "Morrill Land Grant"). The proceeds of this • r a n t finally amounted to an endowmenf f u n d o f $h |<),oi J . O I . 'ii which ib State pays the I niversity interest at 5 per cent
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