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astern a niversit in Fertile Midwestern Eastern borders the prairie. The south-campus lies in forest lands, but the prairie nurtures the school's growth-nurtures it with the very cornfields that feed the nation. To outsiders, the prairie is pro- saic. It is, however, robust, a no- nonsense land: in the open fields only the tough, long-rooted oak taps its deep hidden resource. Droughts stifle luxuriant foliageg grains flourish. Thought Hourishes, fertility invites man's energy to bring order to the granary. East- ern, set on the clear plain, is one of the prairie's children.
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astern efleets Midwestern haraeter :i f ,.. r 'S East Central Illinois is the edge of the prairie, Eastern reflects the influence of its farm environment. But today the farmer lives in an industrial world: fewer but larger, more mechanized farms operate in Coles County, local villages are bedrooms for more industrialized towns--Mattoon, Charleston, Tus- colag retiring farmers settle in town, their offspring move to cities. Technology created problems and opened new fields here: auto- mation slowly reduced farm em- ployment, but brought new in- dustry. How to adapt people? They must be trained. Eastern will play a part in this. Industrial skills must follow newly acquired industrial habits. The automobile, radio, television tie farm and small town to dy- namic urban culturesg aspects of stable country life are disappear- ing, urban materialism is growing. Some rural characteristics re- main: smoky pool halls flourish on the Square, strangers exchange friendly greetings in the street,
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