The New Student's Reference Work/University of Illinois

University of Illinois, at Urbana, Ill., was founded by the state upon the donation by the national government of scrip for 480,000 acres of land. On account of this grant the state pays the university interest at the rate of five per cent. on about $495,000. The university was incorporated in 1867 as Illinois Industrial University, and was opened to students in 1868. In 1885 the legislature changed the name to University of Illinois. It includes the college of literature and arts, college of engineering, college of science, college of agriculture, graduate school, school of library science, school of music, college of law, college of medicine and school of pharmacy. The value of its property and assets is estimated at $1,600,000. It has 609 instructors, 4,920 students and 101,481 volumes in its library. See Illinois.