Download or read book Anticipation exceeded realization written by Robert Allan Stevens and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Illinois State University was typical of colleges in the American antebellum period. Springfield's community boosters welcomed the new college as a civic adornment. Determined men of the cloth envisioned a prestigious institution like the one at which they learned the "artes liberals" and the Lutheran catechism. But turbulent times undermined their heroic efforts to sustain the school. The saga of ISU is a short arc from eager anticipation to bitter realization.