Caption: Dedication - Illini Union (1941)
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AN ALUMNI GREGORY MEMORIAL . B S SEED U VPPREC1 ITED It is agreed among those concerned thai sonic suitable testimonial should be instituted or erected on the University campus, in honor of the man. who more than any one else, and in a large sense more than all others, laid the foundations as they were laid, and in the earlier year shaped the character and scope of the institution which has developed into the University of Illinois as we know it—Doctor John Milton Gregory, the first Repmt (President). II was elected to his high office March 12, 1 7. and served with great distinction and winsome favor until September 1. 1880. when h resigned 1 use his strength seemed to him unequal to the burden h > < fa issumed and appeared inevitable while he continued in the position. T h i s is not the place for an historic a c c o u n t , hut it is becoming to y t h a t w h a t t r a n s p i r e d in those e a r l y y e a r s is now recognized in wonderful ac implishments. < hit of a chaos of ideas, of widely divergent n tly crudely formed ideals, confusedly entangled, the old with th new, the good with the had. the possible with the impracticable, th pen Dal with the patriotic—there came forth clearly formulated plans splendidly organized procedures, richly prophetic beginnings, which in t h e i r f a i r d e v e l o p m e n t s m a k e s t h e i n s t i t u t i o n what it is to.lay. In th( p tion for the remarkable results which have followed, there was . one t o w e r i n g in i? all a n d t h r u it all. one inspired a n d i n s p i r i n g voi 1 lership, one man who devised ami directed, one who eloquently pl» 1 wi n oratory was effective, one who vigorously battled when unavoidable. Let any one unfamiliar with the inner } the period, read the paper prepared by Doctor Gregory, called th .'* th<- Committee < n ('our 9 of Studj " etc., published in > i \nnual Report of the Board of T r u s t e e s . 10 find at on th< lind enlisted in the service of the new institution during th of its organization and development years and activity a influence h mightily affi ted the whol< subsequent chan r 1j the Cniv.-rsit if ind- I thej arc not responsible t'<>r it- \. py M-h. f , this 1 M wl 1 memory we venerate and low this maker. thin mnder, thi fabricator; tins pilot, this iptain; this • rid to whom we tl inheritor if the fruits of his us ,l (] labors, prup.. •• to provide somethii poiiiinemei iti\ fiix eoiisuminj' •'ion, his \m*\uilii r 'i 1 OJ ,jt. of Illinois is not, we " \ • sunto, in din tl ol JU |,|. litll |] nl m I) .1 h o 111. i \\ a n d elli.'i, n t us is Us IllllllH I titlltlOII IS II h u m a n m i e , H IS f o u n d e d Oil h u m a n it totiehi human mpalha Klttl tl il> 111 J I {•
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