Morgridge Book

Wisconsin Historical Society WHS11034

To the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin:

The benefits of liberal culture, through the subordinate schools of instruction, through every variety of professional service, and through the medium of social and civil intercourse, become the general property of the community, and go to the enlargement of the body of common intelligence. The University must be considered a necessary portion of any system of public instruction, and is entitled to share, with the common school and the academy, in the bounty of the state.