The Illio, 1943, Vol. 50 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Illio, 1943, Vol. 50

The University of Illinois holds a unique position among the Land Grant Colleges and Universities of the United States; it is the Federal Land grant-state University in the State where the Land Grant College movement originated; furthermore, President Abra ham Lincoln, a resident of the State of Illinois, made the Land Grant Act of 1862 a law.

The first attempt to found a State University in Illinois was defeated in 1833. The first move to found a State Agricultural and Mechanical School was begun at the meeting of the Buel Institute, at Granville, Illi nois, on November 18, 1851, when Jonathan Baldwin Turner stated his plans for such a school. In February, 1852, Turner made the suggestion that all states might unite in seeking a chain of industrial universities, nationwide in compass created and endowed by a grant of land from Congress to each State. The work of Turner and his friends resulted in a Memorial to Congress from the General Assembly of Illinois in February 1853, seeking federal aid for a national sys tem of agricultural universities.

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