266 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



ing that last night the cables of gravitation parted downi here and the 

 whole planetary outfit fell to everlasting smash-up. 



Thirty-four years ago there was organized here an Industrial Univer- 

 sity. Not a university of the general sort, but of another sort, a new kind 

 of university. A university differing in its organization^ — differing in its 

 leading studies and in its aims an d purposes from those already estab- 

 lished in many parts of the country. The courses of study in the college& 

 and universities existing when this new university was organized were 

 adapted only to fit men for the so-caLled learned professions, law, medi- 

 cine, etc. In this! new university the leading studies were to be those re- 

 lated to agriculture and the mechanic arts. Whereas the other univer- 

 sities tended to withdraw their students from the pursuits of industry, 

 this new university would aim by linking learning more closely to labor 

 and by bringing the light of science more fully to the aid of the produc- 

 tive arts, to enamor the sons and daughters of the farmer and the arti- 

 san with their pursuits. There is no law in IlMnois establishing a univer- 

 sity of the general or older sort. There never has been such a law. 

 There is a law establishing an industrial university. If this university 

 has any legal existence or standing, it is an industrial university. By 

 the intention of its founders, by i ts organic law, by its lawfully author- 

 ized course of study, by the will of the people of Illinois, it is an industrial 

 university, not less, not more. 



In his address delivered on the occasion of the inauguration of the 

 Illinois Industrial University, that great man, Dr. Newton Bateman, 

 said: "What then is the grand distinguishing feature, purpose, hope of 

 this university? In my view it is to form a closer alliance between labor 

 and learning — between science and the manual arts, between man and 

 nature, between the human soul and God, as seen, in and revealed 

 through his works, 



"It is to endeavor so to wed tlie intellect and hearts of the students 

 we educate, to the matchless attractions of rural and industrial life that 

 they will with their whole soul prefer and choose that life and conse- 

 crate to it the results of sMll and power that may here be gained. These 



