The movement for industrial education and the establishment of the University 1840-1870.
Subtitle: With an introd. by Edmund J. James.
Contributors: James, Edmund Janes, 1855-1925
Series: Semi-centennial history of the University of Illinois
Publisher: University of Illinois
Published: 1918
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 631
Subjects: Illinois. University -- History; Education -- Illinois; Technical education; School lands
Table of contents: title: -The Beginning of the Struggle; title: -The Illinois Plan for a System of Land Grant Colleges; title: -The Activity of the Industrial League; title: -Illinois Plan before Congress; title: -Final Period of the Land Grant Proposition; title: -The Men who Led; title: -Seminary and College Funds and the Various Attempts to Establish an Agricultural College or State University; title: -Illinois Accepts the Donation of Congress and Considers its Disposition, 1862-1865; title: -Preparation for the Final Struggle for the Location of the Industrial University; title: -Contest in Legislature of 1867: University Located; title: -The Illinois Industrial University Organizes for Work; title: -The First Two Years of University Work; title: -First Board of Trustees and the First Faculty; title: -Appendix (contains 28 significant documents and two tables)