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...trustees of the University of Illinois have been indicted by the grand jury of Champaign County for neglecting to raise the American flag over the university buildings, in accordance with a recent act of the legislature. There are laws which fall into disuse, and statutes that are mentioned only with contempt; but it is a pleasure to feel that our flag laws are not made to be laughed at and disregarded-but to be respected and obeyed. The sentiment they embody is too important to be trifled with...
...been definitely decided to hold a Western Inter-Collegiate Field Day at Champaign, Ill., May 13th. All the prominent Colleges and Universities of the following States will send representatives: Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded
...professors in the Champaign University of Illinois discovered a process for manufacturing sugar from sorghum and glucose from the seed. They patented their process, for which they lost their positions...
...Advertiser, the solemn old Advertiser, is guilty of the following feeble little joke : "There is a 'Champaign University' in this country. But it is not the one you mean on the banks of the Charles, but in Illinois." Poor Advertiser...
...fact, we believe, that in our day there are one or two institutions in Germany where a partial system of student-government is in actual operation. But it was reserved for America, of course, to make the first complete experiment in the matter. At the State Industrial University, at Champaign, Illinois, for a number of years, a thoroughly organized and once successful students' government has been in operation. Of late, however, this Utopian scheme has received a decided set-back, and the fate of self-government for students and of this first quasi declaration of independence of theirs hangs trembling...