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SIXTEEN YEARS
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1920
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SIXTEEN YEARS
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
A Statistical Study of the Administration
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PRESIDENT EDMUND J. JAMES
PUBUSHED BY
THE UNIVERSITY OF ILUN0I8 PRESS
1920
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TABLE OP CONTENTS
Chapter I The Income of the University 7
Chapter II Land 41
Chapter III Buildings and Equipment 77
Chapter IV Libraries and Museums 100
Chapter V The Faculty 128
Chapter VI The Student Body 154
Chapter VII Student Organizations and Activities 178
Chapter VIII Campus Plans 193
Chapter IX Colleges and Schools 199
Chapter X Summary and Conclusion 256
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ILLUSTRATIONS
President Edmund Janes James Frontispiece
(to pace page)
Administration and Commerce Buildings 16
Natural History and Lincoln Hall 32
The Campus in 1870 44
Agricultural Buildings 48
Agricultural Experiment Fields 53
Agricultural Buildings 64
Chemistry Laboratory 80
Scientific Laboratories 96
Physics, Ceramics, and Transportation Buildings 112
Engineering Laboratories 128
Power House and other buildings 144
Education and Music Buildings 160
Woman's Building and Residence Hall 176
Campus and Farms, 1920 192
The Campus in 1920 194
A Plan for Campus Development 196
Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy Buildings 208
Auditorium, Armory, and other buildings 224
(All the buildings shown were erected, remodelled, or acquired
in the period from 1904 to 1920.)
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PEEPACE
The text of the following study was prepared by my sec-
retaries beginning with Dr. E. J. Filbey and ending with Mr.
Gterald D. Stopp. Dr. V. V. Phelps worked over portions of it
very carefully and aside from those already mentioned I am
under deep obligations to Mr. L. J. Heath and to Miss Anna
V. Whitson for their unwearied attention to detail and their
care for accuracy in the figures given.
After all, there will be found many inaccuracies and incon-
sistencies. In many cases, the university figures do not har-
monize and there is no method of making them agree, which
shows the necessity of a closer supervision of university accounts.
The figures of attendance as kept by the different authorities and
even the accounts of moneys expended do not harmonize. It is
believed that the present method of accounting will secure sub-
stantial agreement.
This book will serve as the starting point of a new and better
system of keeping accounts of all sorts relating to the University
and it is to be hoped that the next statistical volume will be a
marked improvement over this one.
Edmxtnd J. James.
April 2, 1920.
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INTRODUCTION
The following pages contain a brief account of the progress
of the University of Illinois during the period from 1904 to
1920 — ^the years of the administration of its fourth president,
Dr. Edmund Janes James.
The general plan of the Report will be dear from an exam-
ination of the Table of Contents. In the first six chapters an
account is given of the growth of the University in financial
resources, land, buildings, equipment, libraries, museums, fac-
ulty, and students. The seventh chapter summarizes the increase
in student organizations and activities. A chapter is added
outlining the plans at present under consideration for the future
development of the campus; and a brief statement is presented
regarding the changes which have taken place during this period
in each of the various colleges and schools which constitute the
University. Finally a brief summary is appended, recapitu-
lating the outstanding facts contained in the preceding chapters.
In an endeavor to attain some degree of conciseness, facts
have been presented through the medium of statistics whenever
possible, and comment upon the tables has been reduced to a
minimum.
It will of course be recognized that the progress which is
after all the most vital in the life of an institution, cannot be
expressed in mathematical terms. The real life of a university
is something too intangible to grasp and portray. It can be
felt rather than seen. We see the manifestations of life as
we note changes in the material elements which form the flesh
and bones of a living being, and we know that life is there.
It will be observed that in the majority of chapters the ac-
count of the period under consideration has been prefaced with
a brief statement of the events pertaining to the earlier years
of the University, from 1867 to 1904. Essentially, however, the
Report is limited to the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920.
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CHAPTER I
THE INCOME OP THE UNIVEESITT
The Income of the University of Illinois is derived chiefly
from three sources : various appropriations made by the United
States Oovemm^it ; appropriations made biennially by the State
of Illinois; and the fees paid by students of the University.
Within recent years considerable sums have been received also
from miscellaneous sources, the most important of which are
sales of various products resulting from the regular work of
the University, either of experimentation or of instruction.
Then, too, several noteworthy gifts have recently been made to
the University.
The various appropriations which have been made to the
University are as follows:
i. Appropriations by tJie Federal Oovemment
By the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 the national govern-
ment donated to the State of Illinois scrip for 480,000 acres of
public land for the endowment and support of a College of
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts — 30,000 acres for each of
its senators and representatives in Congress. The sale of this
land has brought to the University an endowment fund of ap-
proximately $650,000.
The Hatch Act, approved March 2, 1887, provided for an
appropriation of $15,000 per annum to each state for the pur-
pose of establishing and maintaining agricultural experiment
stations in connection with the colleges founded under the act
of 1862.
In 1890 a second Morrill Act was passed by Congress, by
which there was appropriated for the support of each of the
land-grant colleges the sum of $15,000 for the year ending
June 30, 1890, and in each succeeding year a sum larger by
$1000 than the amount of the preceding year until the amount
should reach $25,000 a year. Thereafter $25,000 was to be paid
annually. The sum of $25,000 has been received by the Uni-
versity each year since 1900.
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The Adams Act, approved March 16, 1906, provided for
an increased annual appropriation for agricultural experiment
stations. Under its provisions the University received $5000
for the year ending June 30, 1906, and for each of the next
five years an increase of $2000 over the amount of the preceding
year. Since 1911 the University has received under this Act
$15,000 annually.
In 1907 Congress provided for the more complete endow-
ment and maintenance of the agricultural colleges by appro-
priating for their support the sum of $5000 for the year end-
ing June 30, 1908, and for each succeeding year for four years
a sum larger by $5000 than the amount of the preceding year.
Thereafter $25,000 was to be paid annually under the provisions
of this law — ^known as the Nelson Act. The sum of $25,000
has been received by the University annually since 1912.
The Smith-Lever Act, approved May 8, 1914, provides for
cooperative agricultural extension work by the land-grant col-
leges and the United States Department of Agriculture. By this
act $480,000 was appropriated by the Federal Government for
the year 1914-15, $1,080,000 for the succeeding year, and for
each year thereafter for seven years a sum exceeding by $500,-
000 the sum appropriated for each preceding year. There-
after the appropriation is to be $4,580,000 a year. Of the
first $480,000 appropriated annually, each of the 48 States re-
ceives an equal share or $10,000. The additional sums appro-
priated are to be allotted to each State in the proportion which
the rural population of each State bears to the total rural popu-
lation of all the States as determined by the next preceding
Federal census. The act provides further that no payment out
of the additional sums shall be made in any year to any State
until an equal sum has been appropriated for that year by
the legislature of such State, or provided by State, county,
college, local authority or individual contributions from within
the State, for the maintenance of this cooperative agricultural
extension work.
The legislature of the State of Illinois, by house joint reso-
lution, assented to the provisions of the Smith-Lever Act March
4, 1915, and the first instalment, $10,000, was received by the
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University of Illinois during the fiscal year 1914-15. Of the
sums appropriated in excess of $480,000, the State of Illinois
will receive 4.38% each year until the figures for the fourteenth
United States census are available. For the year 1915-16 the
total sum payable to this State under the act was $36,282.20,
for 1916-17 $58,184.03, and for 1917-18 $80,085.86. The ''equal
sum" to be provided by some organization within the State
of Illinois is at present furnished by individual subscriptions
amounting to nearly $60,000 and by twenty-three county organ-
izations which together contribute annually to this work a total
of about $26,000. Also the University is spending each year
between $20,000 and $30,000 in the work of agricultural ex-
tension.
The Smith-Hughes Act approved February 23, 1917, pro-
vides for the promotion of vocational education and the prepara-
tion of teachers of vocational subjects. By this act the Federal
Government appropriated for the year ending June 30, 1918^
the sum of $500,000 and for each succeeding year up to and
including that ending June 30, 1925, a sum exceeding by
$250,000 the appropriation of the next preceding year. Be-
ginning July 1, 1925, the sum is to be fixed at $3,000,000 per
annum. These appropriations will be allotted to each state in
the proportion which its rural population bears to the total
rural population in the United States according to the last pre-
ceding United States census, on the condition that the allotment
of funds to any state shall not be less than a minimum of $5,000
for any fiscal year up to and including that ending June 30, 1923,
nor less than $10,000 for any fiscal year thereafter, and that
for each Federal dollar so expended for the maintenance of such
vocational training, the State or local community or both shall
expend an equal amount for the same purpose.
The General Assembly of Illinois having adjourned before
these funds were made available. Governor Lowden on Novem-
ber 14, 1917, accepted the provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act,
appointed the State Treasurer custodian of such money as
should be received therefrom, and created a State Board for
Vocational Education, consisting of the Director of Registra-
tion and Education, Chairman, the Superintendent of Public
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Instruction, the Director of Agriculture, the Director of Labor,
and the Director of Trade and Commerce. Since the Board
had no State appropriation with which to undertake its work,
it requested the University of Illinois to advance sufiBcient
funds for the training of teachers in vocational branches. This
the Board of Trustees agreed to do, and accordingly the Uni-
versity proceeded with the work. Of the $11,290.96 expended
thereon during the year 1917-18, $5,645.48 of Federal money
was refunded by the State Board for Vocational Education.
The sums received as a result of the Morrill, the Nelson,
and the Smith-Hughes acts are paid annually by the Treasurer
of the United States to the State Treasurer. Each Gkneral
Assembly enacts a law providing that the sums so received
by the State Treasurer shall immediately be payable into the
Treasury of the University upon the order of its Board of
Trustees. The income from the Hatch, the Adams, and the
Smith-Lever acts is paid directly to the University Treasurer
by the Treasurer of the United States.
The income of the University of Illinois from each of the
federal grants may be seen in the following table.
It is worthy of note that the first of these federal appro-
priations for the support of the land-grant colleges was brought
about largely as a result of the efforts of a citizen of this state —
Professor Jonathan Baldwin Turner of the Illinois College at
Jacksonville ; and that although a similar bill had been vetoed
by President Buchanan in 1859,^ a president from Illinois,
Abraham Lincoln, afi^ed his signature to the bill of 1862.
The fact should be added, that the appropriation of 1862
to the land-grant colleges was not the first appropriation made
by the Federal government for the support of higher educa-
tion in Illinois. By an act of Congress dated March 26, 1804,
the Secretary of the Treasury was directed to locate in each
of three districts in the Indiana Territory one entire township
for the use of a seminary of learning. This gave Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan each one seminary township.* By the
*IU. School EepoTt 1881-2, p. cxU
in. Sdiool Beport 1881-2, p. exzxi
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The Income of the University 13
act of Congress of April 18, 1818, by which the people of
Illinois Territory were allowed to form a constitution and state
government, one-half of one per cent of the net proceeds of
the lands lying within the state, which should be sold by Con-
gress after January 1, 1819, was to be ** exclusively bestowed
on a college or university." By the same act it was provided
*'That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which shall
be designated by the President of the United States, together
with the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be
reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested
in the legislature of said State, to be appropriated solely to
the use of such seminary by the said legislature."*
The income from the college and seminary funds was an-
nually borrowed by the state government from 1829 until 1857.
Sometimes this money was used for the support of the common
school system, but it appears to have been placed frequently
in the general fund of the state to obviate a levy of the neces-
sary taxes for the operation of the state government.*
When the establishment of the Illinois State Normal Uni-
versity was authorized in 1857 the interest on the college and
seminary funds was appropriated to the support of that in-
stitution. This income has been shared equally with the
Southern Illinois Normal University since the establishment
of the latter in 1869.*^ The income of the seminary funds which
had been borrowed up to 1857 was never returned by the
state, but the borrowed income of the college fund was re-
stored by an act passed in 1861.^
No part of the proceeds of either the college or the sem-
inary funds has ever been received by the University of Illinois.
It is to be noticed that in the case of each of the various
federal grants made from 1862 on, it was the purpose of the
general government to require the states to cooperate in the
maintenance of the work of the institution established as a
•ni. School Beport, 1881-2, p. cxxiii
*IU. School Beport, 1881-2, pp. czxziii and cxxxiv
lU. School Beport, 1881-2, p. cxxxv
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result of these grants. This is evident in the first place from
the fact that the appropriations made by the Federal govern-
ment to the University were made primarily for the support
of instruction in agriculture and the mechanic arts and of
agricultural investigation, although ''other scientific and classi-
cal studies" were not to be excluded from the curriculum, and
military tactics was specifically included. If the institution
in any state was to become a university, offering courses in
every field of study, the money for the greater part of its
support must come from the state itself. In the second place,
a considerable measure of support on the part of the state
was demanded for carrying on even the work of the agricul-
tural and the engineering departments, for every bill granting
federal support for this work included a provision to the
effect that the state must furnish such facilities as would
make the work possible. Thus in the original grant of 1862
not more than 10% of the fund might be used for the pur-
chase of land for a site or for farms; no part of the fund
or of the interest on the fund might be used for the purchase,
erection or repair of buildings. The state, then, must pro-
vide and maintain the buildings required by the college. In
the Act of 1887 by which the agricultural experiment sta-
tions were established it was stipulated that not over 20%
of the first annual appropriation of $15,000 might be used
for buildings, and not more than 5% of subsequent appro-
priations. The Morrill Act of 1890 provided that no part
of the money then appropriated should be used for buildings —
directly or indirectly, while the Adams Act of 1906 permitted
the use of not over 5% of the appropriation for this purpose.
The Nelson amendment of 1907 and the Smith-Hughes Act
of 1917 fixed the same limitations as the acts of 1862 and 1890.
It became necessary, therefore, for the citizens of each state
to provide a due proportion of the equipment and mainte-
nance of these institutions. Illinois was slow to accept this
obligation, but beginning with small annual appropriations
it has contributed more generously as the years have passed
until it has made possible the establishment and maintenance
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of the varions necessary colleges and schools of a true uni-
versity.
2, Appropriations hy the State of Illinois
The various sums which have been appropriated by the
State to the University of Illinois from the establishment of
the University to the present time are shown in the following
table :
APPEOPEIATIONS OP THE STATE TO THE UNIVEBSITT
Bienninm
1869-71
1871-73
1873-75
1876-77
1877-79
1879-81
1881-83
1883-85
1885-87
OP ILLINOIS
1869-1920
60,000.00
130,600.00
62,060.00
11,600.00
69,000.00
24,600.00
41,300.00
54,600.00
63,500.00
1887-89
64,600.00
1889-91
68,660.00
1891-93
135,200.00
1893-95
296,700.00
1895-97
427,000.00
1897-99
449,164.31
1899-1901
494,400.00
1901-03
804,330.01
1903-05
1,152,400.00
1905-07
1,414,635.00
1907-09
2,222,790.00
1909-11
2,313,600.00
1911-13
3^399,300.00
1913-15
4,500,000.00
1915-17
5,000,000.00
1917-19
4,800,000.00
1919-21
6,348,000.00
% 496,850.00
3,881,344.32
Total 1869-1921
23,650,126.00
28,998,126.00
$33,376,319.32
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The legislature of 1867, which authorized the establishment
of the University and fixed its site at Urbana, made no appro-
priation for its support. The legislature of 1869, however,
made an appropriation of $60,000 to the University, and each
succeeding legislature has accepted the obligation of con-
tributing to its maintenance. The appropriations may be
grouped in three periods :
For the first eighteen years of the life of the University,
or until 1885, the appropriations were quite irregular. There
was no uniformity of increase or of decrease from one bien-
nium to the next. The sum of all appropriations for this period
was $496,850 — an average of $55,206 per biennium, or $27,603
per annum. The sums ranged from $11,500 in 1875 to $130,-
500 in 1871.
For the next eighteen years, from 1886 to 1904, the total
sum appropriated by the State to the University was $3,881,-
344.32, an average of $431,260 per biennium, or $215,630 per
annum. There was a steady biennial increase from $54,500,
appropriated in 1887, to $1,152,400, appropriated in 1903.
For the next fifteen years, from 1904 to 1919, the total
sum appropriated by the State of Illinois to the University
was $28,998,125, an average of $3,624,765.62 per biennium, or
$1,812,382.81 per annum. There was again a steady biennial
increase in the appropriations, the sums advancing from
$1,414,535, appropriated in 1905, to $5,000,000, appropriated in
1915, falling however to $4,800,000 in 1917. It is noteworthy
that the sum appropriated in 1913 — $4,500,000 — ^was over
$120,000 greater than the entire sum of all the appropriations
made by the State of Illinois to the University during the
thirty-six years from its foundation in 1867 to 1903 — $4,378,-
194.32; and that the sums appropriated in 1915 and 1917,
namely $5,000,000 and $4,800,000, exceeded by $620,000 and
$420,000 respectively, the sum total of all the appropriations
made by the State to the University during the first thirty-
six years of the latter 's existence.
The increase in the successive appropriations made during
the past fifteen years is seen in the next table.
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APPEOPEIATIONS OP THE STATE TO THE UNTVEBSITY
OP ILLINOIS
1005-10
Inerease over
appropriation
of preeeding Bate of
Bienninin Appropriation bienniom Inerease
1005-07 $1,414,535.00 « 262,135.00 23%
1007-00 2,222,700.00 808,255.00 57%
1000-11 2,313,500.00 00,710.00 4%
1011-13 3,300,300.00 1,085,800.00 47%
1013-15 4,500,000.00 1,100,700.00 32%
1015-17 5,000,000.00 500,000.00 11%
1017-10 4,800,000.00 (-200,000.00) » (4%)»
1010-21 5,348,000.00 548,000.00 11%
Average rate of increase over each preceding biennium 24%
Increase of appropriation of 1017 over that of 1003 316%
Total appropriations by state 1005-1010 $28,008,125.00
Total appropriations by state 1860-1003 4,378,104.32
Excess of appropriations 1005-10 over 1860-1003 24,610,030.68
The preceding tables do not include certain sums appro-
priated by the legislature to various organizations connected
more or less closely with the University, although the funds
of such organizations were for a time administered by the
Board of Trustees of the University.
The State Laboratory of Natural History was removed to
the campus of the University of Illinois in 1885. Prom that
time until 1899 the sums appropriated for its work were pay-
able **upon the order of the president of the Board of Trustees
of the University of Illinois, attested by its secretary and with
the corporate seal of the University." During this period the
following sums were appropriated to the Laboratory :
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APPEOPBIATIONS TO THE STATE LABOEATOEY OP
NATUEAL mSTOEY
1885-1899
Bienniam Appropriation
1885-1887 $ 18,000.00
1887-1889 15,100.00
1889-1891 11,500.00
1891-1893 12,000.00
1893-1895 14,100.00
1895-1897 19,800.00
1897-1899 22,000.00
Total $112,500.00
In like manner the sum of $50,000 appropriated for the
work of the State Entomologist was administered by the Uni-
versity for the biennium 1907-1909.
In 1911 additional duties were assigned by the Gteneral
Assembly to the State Water Survey, which had been estab-
lished at the University of Illinois in 1899. The sum of $30,-
000 was appropriated in 1911 for carrying on the work of
investigation then proposed. This amount was increased to
$43,000 in 1913 and to $52,000 in 1915, making a total of $125,-
000 thus far appropriated for regular and additional work.
The trustees of the University were charged with the admin-
istration of these funds, likewise. (To carry on the original
work of water analysis for which the Survey was created at
the University, a total of $65,000 was appropriated to the Uni-
versity itself during the period from 1899 to 1913. This sum
is included in the table showing the appropriations of the State
to the University, but the $125,000 thus far appropriated di-
rectly to the State Water Survey has not been so included.)®
The Illinois Miners' and Mechanics' Institutes were author-
ized by the General Assembly in 1911. No appropriation for
this work was made, however, until 1913, when $15,000 per
annum was appropriated for the next two years. The Board
of Trustees of the University was charged with the adminis-
tration of this fund.
*Tbe State Water Survey was in 1917 made a dlyiBion of the State
Department of Begistration and Education by the Fiftieth General
Assembly
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The federal land-grant act of 1862 provided that if any
portion of the fund created by that act, or of the interest
thereon, should be diminished or lost, it must be replaced by
the state to which it had belonged. Accordingly, upon the
defalcation of the treasurer of the University in 1897, the State
assumed the liability for the endowment fund and has since
paid interest thereon semi-annually at the rate of 5% per
annum. The appropriation of this interest could properly be
classed either as a State or a Federal appropriation, but has
been considered in this chapter as an item of the income from
the Federal government — the original source of this fund. It
was therefore not included in the table of state appropriations,
although two special appropriations, $92,949.38 and $5,000, re-
spectively, necessitated by the loss of the working income in
1897 through the defalcation already mentioned, were so in-
cluded.
The sums thus far appropriated by the State as interest on
the endowment fund are as follows :•
INTEBEST ON OEIGINAL ENDOWMENT FUND— 1897-1917
1897 $24,250.03
1899 53,013.51
1901 49,921.44
1903 60,149.16
1905 62,091.16
1907 63,580.42
1909 64,661.23
1911 64,880.36
1913 64,841.28
1915 64,901.00
1917 64,901.32
1919 64,901.32
Total $702,092.23
*The phrase "or as much thereof as may be necessary" is regu-
larly included in the act by which the appropriation is made. The
sums actuaUy received by the University have usnaUy been somewhat
less than those represented by the above figures.
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The various purposes for which appropriations have been
made by the State to the University since the organization
of the University are indicated in the following table:
STATE APPBOPEIATIONS TO THE UNIVEBSITY OP ILLINOIS
1867-1921
Appropriation Total
For 1867-1903 1905-1921 1867-1921
Administrative Offices $ 157,000.00 $ 157,000.00
Agricultural BuUding $ 162,830.01 162,830.01
Agriculture 132,500.00 715,800.00 848,300.00
Animal Husbandry Building.. 80,000.00 80,000.00
Armory 10,000.00 100,000.00 110,000.00
Auditorium 100,000.00 100,000.00
Biological Station 5,500.00 5,500.00
Buildings 700,000.00 700,000.00
Buildings and Grounds, Main-
tenance 79,500.00 423,690.00 503,190.00
Buildings, Minor 8,500.00 33,000.00 41,500.00
Cabinets and Collections 28,500.00 20,000.00 48,500.00
Ceramics 80,000.00 80,000.00
Ceramics Building 21,000.00 21,000.00
Chemistry 33,000.00 80,000.00 113,000.00
Chemistry Laboratory 154,714.93 154,714.93
Commerce, Instruction in 26,400.00 166,000.00 192,400.00
Commerce Building 125,000.00 125,000.00
Crop Experiments 40,000.00 120,000.00 160,000.00
Dairy Barn 10,000.00 10,000.00
Dairy Investigations 40,000.00 120,000.00 160,000.00
Defalcation Fund 92,949.38 92,949.38
Drains, Fences and Bepairs... 18,000.00 25,000.00 43,000.00
Electrical Laboratory and Heat-
ing Plant 51,000.00 51,000.00
Engineering College and Sta-
tion 240,000.00 640,000.00 880,000.00
Engineering HaU 165,000.00 165,000.00
Equipment 600,000.00 600,000.00
Farm Lands 31,600.00 31,600.00
Feeding Experiments (See Live
Stock Investigations)
Fire Protection 11,000.00 12,000.00 23,000.00
Floriculture 47,000.00 47,000.00
General and Contingent Ex-
penses 950,000.00 950,000.00
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Appropriation Total
For 1867-1903 1905-1921 1867-1921
General Departments 230,000.00 230,000.00
Graduate School 300,000.00 300,000.00
Giasahouae, rebuilt 30,000.00 30,000.00
Gymnasiam, Men's 3,000.00 13,000.00 16,000.00
Gymnasinm, Wood Shop, etc... 91,000.00 91,000.00
Heating Plant 20,500.00 115,035.00 135,535.00
Horticulture 63,500.00 120,000.00 183,500.00
Household Science 30,000.00 30,000.00
Instructional Work 2,563,000.00 2,563,000.00
Laboratories, General 41,600.00 26,000.00 67,600.00
Land (City Lots) 8,500.00 15,000.00 23,500.00
Land, Buildings and Equip-
ment 2,500,000.00 2,500,000.00
Law Building and Stacks 10,500.00 25,000.00 35,500.00
Law, CoUege of 123,000.00 123,000.00
Legal Proceedings 5,000.00 5,000.00
Library and Apparatus 129,800.00 175,000.00 304,800.00
Library Building 160,000.00 160,000.00
Lincoln Hall 250,000.00 250,000.00
Live Stock Investigations 82,000.00 200,000.00 282,000.00
Live Stock Specimens 22,500.00 22,500.00
Maintenance and Operation... 1,815,400.00 7,000,000.00 8,815,400.00
Military Barns 25,000.00 25,000.00
Mining Building 25,000.00 25,000.00
Mining Engineering 4,000.00 45,000.00 49,000.00
Mines Investigation 10,000.00 10,000.00
Music, School of 10,000.00 18,000.00 28,000.00
Natural History Hall 76,000.00 150,000.00 226,000.00
Observatory 15,000.00 15,000.00
Office Expenses, Departmental.. 250,000.00 250,000.00
Operating 600,000.00 600,000.00
Operating Supplies and Ex-
penses 175,000.00 175y000.00
Pavements and Walks 37,300.00 13,000.00 50,300.00
Pharmacy, School of 50,000.00 50,000.00
Physical Plant 450,000.00 450,000.00
Physics 6,000.00 6,000.00
Physics Building 250,000.00 250,000.00
Printing Office, Equipment.... 500.00 500.00
Bepairs 200,000.00 200,000.00
Besearch and Scientific Depts.. 200,000.00 200,000.00
Salaries and Wages 6,250^000.00 6,250,000.00
School Supplies 865,000.00 865,000.00
Shop Practise 51,000.00 42,000.00 93,000.01
Shops and Drill Hall 26,250.00 26,250.00
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Appropriation Total
For 1867-1903 1905-1921 1867-1921
Social and Political Science
(See Commerce, Instraction
in)
Soil Investigations 70,000.00 350,000.00 420,000.00
Sou Maps 50,000.00 60,000.00
Sugar Beet Investigations.... 6,000.00 6,000.00
Taxes on Nebraska and Minne-
sota Lands 63,100.00 63,100.00
Teachers (additional) and In-
straction at Institute 24,000.00 24,000.00 48,000.00
Telephone Exchange 3,000.00 7,500.00 10,500.00
Engineering ( Transporta t i o n )
Building and Grounds 200,000.00 200,000.00
Traveling Expenses 100,000.00 100,000.00
University Hall 121,050.00 121,050.00
Vaccine Laboratory 12,800.00 12,800.00
Veterinary Biological Lab. Oper-
tion 23,000.00 23,000.00
Veterinary Science 2,000.00 30,000.00 32,000.00
Water Station 20,000.00 16,000.00 36,000.00
Water Survey 20,000.00 45,000.00 65,000.00
Woman 's Building 80,000.00 140,000.00 220,000.00
TOTAL $4,378,194.32 $29,448,125.00 $33,826,319.32
The appropriations by the State to the University from
1905 to 1920 are given in detail in the seven tables which
follow :
STATE APPBOPBIATIONS FOB 1905-07
Purpose Amount
Agricultural College $ 100,000.00
Auditorium 100,000.00
Cabinets and Collections 4,000.00
Ceramics 10,000.00
Chemistry 20,000.00
Commerce, Instruction in 16,000.00
Crop Experiments 30,000.00
Dairy Investigation 30,000.00
Drains, Fences and Bepairs 10,000.00
Engineering College and Station 150,000.00
Fire Protection 3,000.00
Heating Plant 35.00
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Purpose Amount
Horticulture 80,000.00
Laboratories ((General) 6,000.00
Law, College of 10,000.00
Library 25,000.00
Live Stoek Investigation 50,000.00
Music, School of 6,000.00
Operating Expense 700,000.00
Shop Practise 10,000.00
Soil Investigation 50,000.00
Teachers (additional) and Instruction at Institutes 12,000.00
Telephone Exchange 1,500.00
Water Station 3,000.00
Water Survey 8,000.00
Woman's Building 15,000.00
Purchase of City Lots 15,000.00
Total $1,414,635.00
STATE APPBOPBIATIONS FOB 1907-09
Purpose Amount
Agricultural College $ 100,000.00
Buildings and Grounds 28,690.00
Cabinets and Collections 4,000.00
Ceramics 15,000.00
Chemistry 20,000.00
Commerce, Instruction in 50,000.00
Crop Experiments 30,000.00
Dairy Investigation 80,000.00
Drains, Fences and Repairs 10,000.00
Engineering College and Station 150,000.00
Farm Land 11,600.00
Fire Protection 3,000.00
Floriculture 15,000.00
Graduate School 100,000.00
Heating Plant 35,000.00
Horticulture 30,000.00
Household Science 20,000.00
Laboratories (General) 6,000.00
Law, CoUege of 30,000.00
Library 50,000,00
Live Stock Investigation 50,000.00
Music, School of 6,000.00
Natural History BuUding (addition) 150,000.00
Operating Expense ^ 900,000.00
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Purpose Amount
Pharmacy, Sehool of 10,000.00
PhywcB HaU 250,000.00
Shop Practise 10,000.00
Soil Investigation 50,000.00
Teachers (additional) and Instruction at Institutes 12,000.00
Veterinary Science 30,000.00
Telephone Exchange 1,500.00
Water Station 3,000.00
Water Survey 12,000.00
Total $2,222,790.00
STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1909-11
Purpose Amount
Agricultural College t 100,000.00
Buildings and Grounds 35,000.00
Cabinets and Collections 4,000.00
Ceramics 26,000.00
Chemistry 20,000.00
Crop Experiments 30,000.00
Dairy Investigation 30,000.00
Drains, Fences and Repairs 5,000.00
Engineering College and Station 160,000.00
Fire Protection 3,000.00
Floriculture 16,000.00
Graduate School 100,000.00
Gymnasium 8,000.00
Heating and yghting Plant 50,000.00
Horticulture 30,000.00
Household Science 5,000.00
Laboratories, General 6,000.00
Law, CoUege of 33,000.00
Law Library Stacks 10,000.00
Library 50,000.00
Lincoln Hall 250,000.00
Mining Engineering 15,000.00
Music, School of 6,000.00
Operating Expense 1,050,000.00
Pavements and Walks 5,000.00
Pharmacy, School of 20,000.00
Shop Practise 10,000.00
Social and PoUtical Science 50,000.00
Soil Investigation 120,000.00
Stock Investigation 50,000.00
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PorpoBe Amount
Telephone Exchange 1,500.00
Water Station 6,000.00
Water Survey 10,000.00
Total $2,313,500.00
STATE APPEOPBIATIONS FOE 1911-13
Purpose Amount
Agricultural College $ 415,800.00
Agronomy Greenhouse 9,000.00
Animal Husbandry Building 80,000.00
Armory 100,000.00
Buildings and Grounds 50,000.00
Cabinets 8,000.00
Ceramics 30,000.00
Ceramics Building 21,000.00
Chemistry 20,000.00
Clinic Building 5,000.00
Cold Storage 9,000,00
Commerce Building 125,000.00
Crop Experiments 30,000.00
Dairy Barn 10,000.00
Dairy Investigations 30,000.00
Engineering Building and Grounds 200,000.00
Engineering College and Station 180,000.00
Farm Mechanics Building 8,000.00
Fire Protection 3,000.00
Floriculture 16,000.00
Glass House 30,000.00
Graduate School 100,000.00
Gymnasium 5,000.00
Heating and Lighting Plant 30,000.00
Horticulture 30,000.00
Household Science 5,000.00
Laboratories, General 8,000.00
Law Building 15,000.00
Law, College of 50,000.00
Library 50,000.00
Live Stock Specimens 22,500.00
Mining Building (additional equipment) 25,000.00
Mining Engineering 30,000.00
Mines Investigation 10,000.00
Operating Expenses 1,150,000.00
Pavements and Walks 8,000.00
Pharmacy, School of 20,000.00
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Purpose Amount
Porehase of Farm Lands 20,000.00
Sheep Building 2,000.00
Shop Practise 12,000.00
Social and Political Science 50,000.00
Soil Investigations 130,000.00
Boil Maps 50,000.00
Btock Investigations 50,000.00
Telephone Exchange 3,000.00
T'^ater Station 4,000.00
Water Survey 15,000.00
Woman's Building, Addition 125,000.00
Total $3,399,300.00
STATE APPBOPBIATIONS FOB 1913-15
Purpose Amount
Ifaintenance, Equipment and (General Operating Expenses. .$3,200,000.00
XAnd, Buildings and Equipment 1,300,000.00
Total . . . . ; $4,500,000.00
STATE APPBOPBIATIONS FOB 1915-17
Purpose Amount
Land, Buildings and Equipment t 900,000.00
Expenses of Administrative Offices 157,000.00
Expenses of General Departments 230,000.00
Expense of Instructional Work 2,563,000.00
Expense of Besearch and Scientific Departments 200,000.00
Maintenance and Operation of Physical Plant 450,000.00
Oeneral and Contingent Fund 500,000.00
Total $5,000,000.00
STATE APPBOPBIATIONS FOB 1917-19
Purpose Amount
Salaries and Wages $2,950,000.00
Departmental Office Expenses 100,000.00
Traveling Expenses 50,000.00
Operating Supplies and Expenses 125,000.00
School Supplies 415,000.00
Bepairs on Buildings, Grounds and Equipment 110,000.00
Equipment 300,000.00
Buildings 500,000.00
Beserve and Contingencies 250,000.00
Total $4,800,000.00
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STATE APPEOPBIATIONS FOB 1919-21
A. From BecdpU from the
University MUl Tax
1. Salaries and Wages $3,300,000.00
2. OfBoe Expense 150,000.00
3. Traveling Expense 60,000.00
4. Operating 600,000.00
5. Bepairs 200,000.00
6. Equipment 300,000.00
7. Buildings 200,000.00
8. Contingent 200,000.00
Total MiU Tax $5,000/)00.00
B. From (General Bevenue of the State
1. Land and Buildings t 300,000.00
2. Veterinary Biological Laboratory Operation 23,000.00
3. Military Bams 25,000.00
Total Appropriations $5,348,000.00
It should be noted that the appropriations for 1913-15, for
1915-17, for 1917-19, and for 1919-21, totaling $4,500,000,
$5,000^00, $4,800,000, and $5,348,000 respectively, represented
the estimated proceeds of the one-mill tax for the University
first collected in 1912.
The progress of a State University is to be judged not
so much by the size of the appropriations made to it by suc-
cessive legislatures as by the manner in which such appropria-
tions are utilized. Nevertheless a steady increase in the bien-
nial appropriations, obtained as these are from groups of men
the personnel of which is constantly changing, affords reason-
ably certain evidence that the University has won the confi-
dence of the greater number of the citizens of the State, that
it is developing in accordance with their desires, and that it
is meeting the various obligations which in increasing numbers
are being laid upon it year after year. The voting by the
legislature of 1911 of an annual mill tax for the support of
the University of Illinois is a further unmistakable expression
of this confidence. The act in full is as follows :
AN ACT to Provide by State Tax for a Fund for the Sup-
port and Maintenance of the University of Illinois.
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Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of
Illinois represented in the General Assembly : That there shall
be levied and collected for the year 1912 and annually there-
after at the same time and in the same manner that State
taxes are collected, a one mill tax for each dollar of the
assessed valuation of the taxable property of this State to
be paid into the treasury of the State and set apart as a fund
for the use and maintenance of the University of Illinois.
Section 2. Such fund when so collected, paid in and set
apart, shall remain in the treasury of the State until appro-
priated to the use of the said University of Illinois by act of
the General Assembly in accordance with section 18, article 4,
of the Constitution of this State.
Approved June 10, 1911.i«
The passage of this Act makes it possible for the author-
ities of the University to adopt and carry out a definite admin-
istrative and educational policy. It has, however, become evi-
dent that with the rapid growth of the University and with
the increasing demands made upon it, the mill tax will not
alone yield a sufficient sum to provide both for the ordinary
operating expenses and for the erection of the buildings now
urgently needed by the several colleges of the University.
The lower estimate of the receipts from this tax and the
consequently lower appropriation for the biennium 1917-19
was due mainly to the fact that the equalized assessment of
all taxable property in Illinois for the year 1916 was arbitrarily
reduced to $2,502,086,976, a sum $54,571,224 less than the cor-
responding amount for W15. This was a decrease of over
two per cent, whereas for the preceding six years there had
been an average increase of nearly three per cent. Because of
this reduction and in view of the fact that for the biennium
1915-17 the receipts from the mill tax had fallen below the
$5,000,000 appropriated in 1915 for that period, the Board
of Trustees of the University asked of the legislature for the
biennium 1917-19 a sum from the mill tax $200,000 less than
the amount appropriated for the preceding biennium. An
additional sum of $2,000,000 for the biennium 1917-J9, re-
>*l.aw8 of lUinois 1911, pp. 484-5
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quired for the inauguration of a comprehensive building plan
for the next ten yeai:s, was not granted by the legislature.
3. Total Income of (he University
The total receipts of the University from all sources for
each year from 1904 to 1917 are shown in the following table.
It should be noted that in this table the sums received from
the State of Illinois represent not only all sums appropriated
directly to the University for University purposes, but also
all other funds with the administration of which the Trustees
of the University were charged.
It will be observed that the income of the University and
related departments from each of the various sources — United
States Government, State of Illinois, and fees, sales, etc., —
showed a marked increase during the sixteen years irom 1904
to 1920. The income proper of the University exceeded $1,000,-
000 for the first time in the year 1905-06. Six years later it
went beyond $2,000,000 and for the years 1915-16, and following
it has exceeded $3,000,000. The total available income for
1903-04, the year immediately preceding this period, was $956,-
472.80. The total sum available for 1919-20, including the bal-
ance at the beginning of the year, was $3,967,848.20, an increase
of $3,011,375.40 over the income for 1903-04, or about 314 per
cent.
QlFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY
The University has, at various times, been the recipient
of important gifts. These have consisted of land, buildings,
scientific collections, libraries, machinery, miscellaneous items,
and sums of money. Usually any money received has been
given for a definite purpose designated by the donor, such as
a fellowship, a scholarship, a loan fund, a prize, or books of
a special character.
The first gifts to the University were made in 1867 in order
to secure its location in Champaign County. At that time
the county, through a committee of its board of supervisors,
offered the Urbana and Champaign Institute buildings and
grounds, about 970 acres of farm land, one hundred thousand
dollars in Champaign County ten per cent bonds, fifty thousand
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dollars worth of freight donated by the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company, and two thousand dollars worth of trees and
shrubs from the nursery of M. L. Dunlap of Savoy. The total
value of these gifts has been variously estimated at from
$325,000 to $450,000. The former figure is probably more
nearly correct.^ ^
At the third meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Uni-
versity, held in November, 1867, the committee on the agricul-
tural department reported as follows:
''The committee are of the opinion that upon proper appli-
cation to the manufacturers of agricultural implements, one
at least of each kind may be secured to the Institution free
of charge. It will be manifestly to the interest of manufac-
turers to send their machines of different kinds here to be
tested, as an indorsement by the officers of the Institution
would be highly beneficial to the manufacturers, in making^
sales. The committee recommend the passage of the follow-
ing resolution:
"Resolved, That Thomas Quick be instructed to correspond
with the various manufacturers of agricultural implements,,
inviting them to donate to the University one at least of the
various implements or machines, to be tested and used by the
Institution, or placed in an exhibition hall, as the Board may
elect, to form a permanent museum of agricultural imple-
ments. *'i«
At the next meeting of the Board Mr. Quick reported that
machinery valued at approximately $400 had been promised
the University by various donors and two-thirds of it. had
already been received.^* Several of the leading manufacturers
had indicated also their willingness to furnish any of the more
expensive implements manufactured by them to the University
at half price.
Numerous donations of the same character have been made
to the University during the subsequent years of its existence.
Nor has the College of Agriculture been the only department
"The value of the Tarions tracts of land acquired by the University
is given in detail in Chapter n.
*«Eept., Univ. of HL, 1868, p. 96
**Ibid, pp. 109-110
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benefited in this manner. Several of the most important of
the recent gifts of machinery to the University have been re-
ceived by the College of Engineering. Among these may be
mentioned a set of four axles and four pairs of supporting
wheels valued at $2,700 for the new Locomotive Testing La-
boratory, given in 1912 by the Midvale Steel Company of
Philadelphia;** an automatic controller for electric motors, by
the Electric Controller and Manufacturing Co. of Cleveland,
Ohio;*^ and a six-hundred horse power vertical triple-expan-
sion engine for the Engineering Museum, donated in 1915 by
the Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago.*®
The B. T. Crane Company of Chicago presented to the
department of mechanical engineering in 1916 a complete ex-
hibit of sectional valves, steam taps, etc., the value of which
was estimated at $500. The Babcock and Wilcox Company of
Bayonne, New Jersey, presented to the same department in
1916 a test drill for experimental purposes, of an estimated
value of $150.17
Books, singly and in the form of entire libraries, have been
donated to the University at frequent intervals. Among the
most important gifts of this character are the following: The
Palmer Chemistry Library of about 360 volumes and 450
pamphlets, the library of the late Professor Arthur "William
Palmer of the University, was presented to the University in
1904 by Mrs. Anna Shattuck Palmer. The Karsten Collection,
principally of French and German Philology and Literature,
the library of the late Professor Qustaf E. Karsten of the
University, was presented by Mrs. Eleanor G. Karsten in 1908.
The B'nai B'rith Library of Jewish Literature was established
in 1912 in consequence of a gift of $500 for this purpose by
District Number 6 of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith,
and is supported by a gift of fifty dollars annually from the
same source. The D. C. Greene Collection, consisting of 219
volumes of books and newspapers relating to Japan, a part
of the library of Rev. D. C. Greene, of Japan, was presented to
**Bept., Univ. of lU., 1914, p. 146
"Bept., Univ. of DL, 1914, p. 175
^•Bept., Univ. of DL, 1916, p. 879
*1bid., p. 939
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the University in 1915 by his son, Professor Evarts B. Greene.
The Constance Barlow-Smith Collection, consisting of musical
scores, manuscripts, books and portraits, was presented to the
University by Mrs. Smith in 1916 upon her retirement from
the assistant professorship of sight singing and ear training
after thirteen years' teaching in the School of Music of the
University. The Carl Martin James Collection, 1030 volumes
relating to statistics and similar subjects, and the Amanda K.
Casad Collection, 1732 volumes relating to history, economics,
politics, and education, were presented to the University in 1915
and 1916, respectively, by President Edmund J. James. In
1919, Mr. Samuel Insull presented to the University a collection
of U. S. (Jovemment reports, nearly complete.
The Quine Library of the College of Medicine had its be-
ginning in a collection of books presented to the College in
1892 by Mrs. A. Reeves Jackson after the death of Doctor
Jackson, the first president of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Soon afterward Dr. William E. Quine gave a thou-
sand volumes to the library and for a considerable period made
an annual donation of $300 for its maintenance.
An important series of gifts to the University is repre-
sented by twenty-seven tracts of land in various portions of
the State, which have been donated for use as experiment fields.
These have a total area of over 500 acres and a total estimated
value of from $75,000 to $100,000.18
In February, 1917, the Trustees of the University were noti-
fied by the executors of the estate of the late Alfred B. Jenkins
of "West Orange, New Jersey, that the University of Illinois
was one of twelve institutions named in Mr. Jenkins' will as
residuary legatees of his estate. The principal of the gift when
received is to be held as a part of the endowment fund of
the University and to be known as the *' Alfred B. Jenkins
Endowment. "i»
The largest individual gift in the history of the University
was received in 1914 when Captain Thomas J. Smith of Cham-
paign, a former trustee, donated four farms having a total area
"Details regarding these fields are g^ven in Chap, n
"Min., Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of 111., 1916-18, p. 240
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of about 770 acres and a total value of approximately $215,000,
to provide funds for the erection of a building for the School
of Music as a memorial to his wife, Tina Weedon Smith.^
Another noteworthy gift to the University was the pre-
sentation in 1913, by the Alumni of the College of Medicine
and other friends of medical education, of the property of
the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. This gift
comprised the entire capital stock of the corporation, 2170
shares, having a par value of $100 a share. The value of the
real estate, library, apparatus, equipment and other personal
property which had belonged to the corporation and which
thus became the property of the University has been variously
estimated at from $300,000 to $400,000.21 This was, however,
subject to an indebtedness of $245,000, which was not assumed
by the University.22
Still another very important gift was made in January,
1917, by Honorable WiUiam B. McKinley of Champaign, who
offered to transfer to the University securities of the par value
of $120,000 to provide funds for the erection of an infirmary
for students and faculty. The Board of Trustees accepted the
gift and voted to give the name ''McKinley Hospital" to the
infirmary to be erected.^^ This was in addition to Mr. Mc-
Kinley 's gifts to the University Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.,
which were really for the use and benefit of students of the
University of Illinois.
A considerable number of gifts have been made to the
University in the form of materials for the museums and
collections.
The first important gift of this character was made in 1874
as a result of the labors of the Regent, Dr. J. M. Gregory, in
soliciting funds among the residents of Urbana and Champaign
for the purpose of establishing an art collection. About $2,000
was subscribed and the Art Museum established in University
Hall during the same year.
"Turther details regarding this gift wiU be found in Chapter n
«Cf. Eept., Univ. of HI., 1912, pp. 469-470; 1914, p. 189
Tor a f uU statement of this transfer see Chapter IX
*Min., Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of HI., 1916-18, p. 194
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A bust of Professor Edward Snyder in marble, the work
of Mr. Lorado Taft of the class of 1879, was presented to
the University by Mr. Taft in 1915.
A considerable part of the paleontology collection is made
up of specimens donated to the University. In 1876 Mr. Emory
Cobb, a trustee, purchased and presented to the University the
full series of casts of fossils made by Professor H. A. Ward
of Rochester, N. Y. This collection, valued at $2,500, repre-
sented the rarest and most valuable fossils of the British
Museum, and of other great European collections, as well as
those of the leading collections in America. The private col-
lection of fossils made by Mr. Tyler McWhorter and valued
at approximately $1,000 was presented to the University by
Mr. McWhorter in 1888. In 1913 a collection of marine and
fresh water shells comprising about 3,000 specimens collected
by the late A. H. Worthen was given to the University by Mrs.
Thomas A. Worthen.
Many objects from the finds of the Egypt Exploration fund
have been donated to the Museum of Classical Archeology and
Art by Mr. W. G. Hibbard, Jr., of Chicago, at various intervals
since 1911. These include about 117 pieces of pottery and terra
cottas and about 195 other objects of stone, metal, wood, bone
and leather. Professor W. N. Stearns of Fargo College, North
Dakota, has also donated to this museum about twenty-eight
pieces of pottery and fragmentary inscribed ostraka from
Egypt.
Mr. Hibbard was the donor also, in 1916, of a collection
of 300 valuable coins of various countries. Of these, forty,
of ancient Greek and Roman coinage, have been placed in
the Classical Museum, and the others in the Museum of Eu-
ropean Culture.
A collection of birds' eggs was given to the University in
1913 by Messrs. M. K. and M. H. Barnum. A large part of
this material was collected in the Southwestern States years
ago before the inroads of civilization had altered the country
and its native fauna. Species to the number of 248 are repre-
sented by 1,483 specimens.
An excellent collection of corals was presented to the Uni-
versity in 1915 by the Peabody Academy of Science of Salem,
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Massachusetts. The collection comprises 23 specimens of 22
species, from Florida, the Hawaiian Islands, East India and
Africa.
The entomology collections of the University were enlarged
in 1897 by the acquisition of the Bolter collection, which was
donated to the University by the executors of the estate of the
late Andreas Bolter of Chicago. About 120,000 specimens are
included, representing over 16,000 species, chiefly from North
America.
In 1912 the department of botany was the recipient of a
gift of the personal herbarium of Mrs. Agnes Chase of Wash-
ington, D. C. This collection represents chiefly the flora of
Illinois, but also that of the Eastern and Southeastern states.
There are about 10,000 specimens in the collection, which has
a value of from $1,500 to $2,000.
Another recent gift to the same department was a set of
the Phycotheca Boreali-Americana, donated by Mrs. Mary S.
Snyder in 1914. This collection includes about nine-tenths of
all the marine algae found on the coasts of the United States.
Over 2,000 species are represented.
In 1916, the Herbarium was greatly enriched by the Stevens
Collection of Porto Bican Fungi, 14,000 numbers presented by
Professor F. L. Stevens.
In 1915 a valuable collection consisting of 226 microscope
slides was presented to the University by B. Halsted Ward,
M. D., of Troy, New York. The slides represent a great
variety of objects in the fields of botany, mineralogy, zoology,
embryology and histology, prepared by experts of this country
and abroad.
A large collection of the materials of commerce was pre-
sented to the University in 1905 by the Philadelphia Commer-
cial Museum. The collection includes minerals, dyes, drugs,
grasses, roots, woods, nuts, seeds, etc. Several private manu-
facturing and mercantile establishments have contributed ma-
terials of the same general character.
Of the various gifts to the University several of the most
important have been for the purpose of establishing funds from
which loans might be made to worthy students.
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A fund of $100 was established by the class of 1895, only
$50 of which was to be lent in any one year. The benefit of
this fund is open only to students who at the time of their ap-
plication are members of the freshman class.
The Edward Snyder Loan Fund was established in 1899
by the gift of $12,000 to the University by Edward Snyder,
formerly professor of the Gterman Language and Literature.
Juniors, seniors and graduate students are eligible to share
in the benefits of this fund.
A fund of $75 for the benefit of graduate students was estab-
lished in 1907-08 by the members of the Graduate Club of the
University.
In 1911 the sum of $409.44 was given by the Woman's
League of the University of Illinois as a trust fund to be known
as the Woman's League Loan Fund, to be available to any
woman properly matriculated in the University, on certain con-
ditions stipulated in the deed of gift.
In 1912 Honorable William B. McKinley of Champaign, Illi-
nois, established a loan fund for undergraduate men by trans-
ferring to the University notes aggregating about $12,000
which represented personal loans made by himself to students
in previous years. It was stipulated that a preference should
be shown to upper classmen in making loans from this fund.
In 1912 Mr. Henry Strong of Chicago provided in his will
for the establishment of an educational fund for the help
of self-supporting students of ability and enterprise. An allot-
ment of this fund to certain state universities is made annually
by the trustees of the fund. Since 1912-13 the University of
Illinois has received an allotment each year, amounting to
$500 for each of the first four years and $250 for the year
1916-17. These sums are lent to students in accordance with
certain regulations approved by the trustees of the fund.
In December, 1914, the sum of $5,000 was donated as the
nucleus of a loan fund for students of high character, intel-
lectual capacity and physical vigor, who have completed not
less than two full years of work in the University. The loans
from this fund, which is known as the Margaret Lange James
Student Loan Fund, are made preferably to women students.
Subsequent donations — among them a gift of $500 by Mr.
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Homer A. StiUwell of Chicago — ^have increased the fund to
about $5,630.
A loan fund for the benefit of women students in the School
of Pharmacy was established in May, 1917, by the Women's
Organization of the Chicago Betail Druggists Association. The
initial sum constituting the principal of the fund was $115.^*
Several donations to the University have been in the form
either of annual prizes offered to the student body or of a
sum of money, the income from which was to be offered each
year as a prize.
Captain W. C. Hazelton provided a medal in 1890 which
is awarded annually, at a competitive drill held in May, to
the best drilled student. The winner may wear the medal
until the fifteenth day of the following May, when he must
return it for the next competition.
In 1898 Mr. William Jennings Bryan gave to the University
the sum of $250, from the interest on which a prize of $25
is offered biennially for the best essay on the science of gov-
ernment.
The Champaign and Urbana lodge of the Independent Order
of B*nai B'rith has donated to the University the sum of $50
annually since 1912 to be awarded in prizes to students in
the University for essays on Jewish subjects.
Since 1913 the American Law Book Company of New York
and Callaghan and Company of Chicago have each offered
an annual prize of certain of their publications to students
making the highest averages in the senior and second year
classes respectively in the College of Law.
The local chapter of Phi Beta Eappa offers annually a prize
of $25 to that member of the chapter who at his graduation
from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences gives evidence
of the greatest promise as a scholar in the domain of liberal
arts.
In 1913 Mr. Joseph C. Llewellyn of Chicago, a graduate
of the University of the class of 1877, established for a period
of four years a prize of $50 per annum for a problem in de-
sign, the competition being limited to students in architectural
engineering.
••Min., Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of lU., 1916-18, p. 297
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For two years, 1912-13 and 1913-14, the Northwestern Terra
Cotta Company of Chicago offered a prize of $50 to be awarded
in a competition in architectural design involving the decora-
tive use of terra cotta.
Beginning with the class of 1915, the American Institute
of Architects has offered a medal annually to the senior in
the department of architecture whose development during the
four years' course is the most consistent and best.
The Scarab Society of the department of architecture has
offered a bronze medal annually since 1915 to be awarded
during the second semester to a student in architecture for the
best solution of a problem in architectural design.
The sum of $50 was received by the University in 1916
as a gift from Division One of the Ancient Order of Hiberians,
to be awarded as a prize for the best essay written by an
undergraduate or graduate student in the University on a
subject connected with ancient Irish literature, history or
archeology. It is hoped by the donors that a fund of $1000
may be established, from the interest of which the prize may
be made permanent.
At various times sums of money have been donated to the
University for the purpose of establishing annual scholarships.
In 1902 Professor B. L. Bea of the College of Medicine be-
queathed $5,000 to the College for the establishment of four
scholarships for the aid of needy students. The net amount
received by the College after the payment of the inheritance
tax and other fees was $4,800. This sum has been invested in
mortgage bonds, the income from which is received by four
students annually.
The Northwestern Branch of the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church paid over
to the College of Medicine in 1902 the sum of $2,000 for the
establishment of two scholarships. In return the college agreed
to allow the Society to appoint one student to each scholarship
so long as the College continued to provide complete educa-
tion for women. In case this condition should at any time
cease to be maintained, the sum given was to be returned to
the Society. Students appointed to these scholarships are
exempt from the payment of tuition and similar fees.
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In 1910 Mr. Francis J. Plym of Niles, Michigan, a graduate
of the University of Illinois of the class of 1897, offered to
the University the sum of $1,000 a year for the period of
five years for the establishment of a fellowship for the ad-
vanced study of architecture. The holder of the annual fel-
lowship established in consequence of this gift is expected
to spend the year in study and travel abroad. Although the
proposed term of five years expired in 1914, Mr. Plym has con-
tinued to contribute $1,000 annually for the maintenance of
the fellowship. From the accumulated interest on two an-
nual contributions which could not be used immediately be-
cause of the European war, three prizes amounting to a total
of $50 were offered in 1916-17, in accordance with the desire
of Mr. Plym, for the best solutions to a problem in architec-
tural design which might be presented by members of the
junior class in architectural engineering.
The gift of certain farm lands by Captain Thomas J. Smith
of Champaign, already referred to, to provide funds from which
a building might be erected for the School of Music, was
accompanied by a request that four free scholarships in the
School of Music should be granted annually to young women
who might seek a musical education but who might be unable
to pay the customary charges for instruction in music. Ac-
cordingly, four such scholarships were established by the
Board of Trustees and became available first in the fall of
the year 1916.
The Board of Trustees of the University were notified in
June, 1916, that the Irish Fellowship Foundation of Chicago
would guarantee a fund of $1200 for Oaelic research work
in the University of Illinois for the year 1916-17. In conse-
quence of this gift a Fellowship in Oaelic was established and
an appointment made for that year.
In 1919, Mr. Robert F. Carr, President of the Board of
Trustees, gave the University securities worth $10,000 to endow
the Robert F. Carr Fellowship in Chemistry.
For the years 1918-19 and 1919-20, the E. I. Du Pont de
Nemours Company have given an annual stipendium of $750 for
the Du Pont Fellowship in Chemistry.
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CHAPTER n
LAND
I. In 1867
Early in the legislative session of 1867 the General Assem-
bly of Illinois passed an act in relation to the location of the
Illinois Industrial University, a part of which act was as
follows :
"Whereas, Each portion of the state is alike interested in
the proper location of said University, and it is desirable to
enable the public spirit of each community or section to fully
compete for such location; therefore
"Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of
Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That any county,
city, township, or incorporated town of said state, may, by
taxation, as well as by voluntary subscription of its citizens,
raise a fund to secure the location of said University at any
point whatever; and any other corporation in this state may
make bids and subscriptions for the purpose of securing said
location at any point whatever.^
This act was approved January 25, 1867. Within a month
the contest for the location of the University, which had nar-
rowed to four counties, — Champaign, Logan, McLean and
Morgan — ^was decided in favor of Champaign county; and
on the 28th of Febuary an act was approved authorizing the
appointment of a board of trustees and the permanent loca-
tion of the University in that county so soon as the terms of
the offer made to the state should be fulfilled.
Section 12 of this act was afi follows:
"It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to permanently
locate said University at Urbana in Champaign County, Illi-
nois, whenever the county of Champaign shall, according to
the proper forms of law, convey or cause to be conveyed to
said trustees, in fee simple, and free from all incumbrances,
the Urbana and Champaign Institute buildings, grounds, and
*Law8 of Ulinois, 1867, p. 122
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lands, together with the appurtenances thereto belonging, as
set forth in the following offer in behalf of said county, to-wit :
''The undersigned, a committee appointed by the board of
supervisors of Champaign County, are instructed to make the
following offer to the State of Illinois, in consideration of the
permanent location of the Illinois Industrial University at
Urbana, Champaign County, viz: We offer the Urbana and
Champaign Institute buildings and grounds, containing about
ten acres ; also one hundred and sixty acres of land adjacent
thereto; also, four hundred acres of land, it being part of
section No. twenty-one, in township No. nineteen, north, range
No. nine east, distant not exceeding one mile from the corpor-
ate limits of the city of Urbana.
''Also, four hundred and ten (410) acres of land, it being
part of section No. nineteen, township No. nineteen north,
range No. nine east, within one mile of the buildings herein
offered.
"Also, the donation offered by the Illinois Central Railroad
Company of fifty thousand dollars' worth of freight over said
road for the benefit of said University.
"Also, one hundred thousand dollars in Champaign county
bonds, due and payable in ten years, and bearing interest at
the rate of ten per cent, per annum, and two thousand dollars
in fruit, shade, and ornamental trees and shrubbery, to be
selected from the nursery of M. L. Dunlap, and furnished
at the lowest catalogue rates, making an estimated valuation
of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($450,000). Titles
to be perfect, and conveyances to the state to be made or
caused to be made by the county of Champaign, upon the
permanent location of the Illinois Industrial University upon
the said grounds, so to be conveyed as aforesaid, and we hereby
in our official capacity guarantee the payment of the said
bonds and the faithful execution of the deeds of conveyance,
free from all incumbrances, as herein set forth.
W. D. SOMEBS,
T. A. COSGEOVE,
C. B. MOORHOUSE,
Committee. ''2
•Session Laws of lU., 1867, p. 123
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It wiU be noticed that the land donated by Champaign
County consisted of four separate tracts, amounting in all
to about 980 acres. One of the first acts® of the Board of
Trustees was to purchase additional land adjoining that given
by the county, thereby enlarging the campus, straightening
the boundary lines, and joining the 160 acre tract to the plot
on which the chief building of the University stood. By the
end of the year 1867 the majority of the various purchases
called for by this plan had been consummated. The ''Urbana
and Champaign Institute grounds containing about ten acres,"
specified in the ofl!er of the county to the legislature, were
found to contain somewhat less than seven and a half acres.
At a meeting of the executive committee of the Trustees of
the University held June 14, 1867, it was "Resolved, That
it is the opinion of this committee that Champaign county
should make good its offer to the State by conveying sufScient
grounds contiguous to the University to make up the size of
the ground to ten acres.'** On the same day a committee from
the Board of Supervisors of the county reported to the execu-
tive committee of the Trustees that the Supervisors had author-
ized the conveyance to the University of ten lots adjacent to
the campus and owned by the county.®
The program of campus enlargement included also the pur-
chase of a tier of lots to the west of the Institute grounds, and
the moving of Wright Street about sixty-six feet westward.
The land formerly occupied by Wright Street thus became part
of the campus.® The west fourteen feet of this land, however,
was added to Wright Street, giving that street a width of
eighty feet.
In all, during the year 1867, twenty-two lots were pur-
chased, as well as nearly all of a forty-acre tract of land*^
forty rods in width from east to west extending one hundred
sixty rods southward from Springfield Avenue to the 160 acre
•Eept. Univ. of 111., 1868, p. 42
*Bept Univ. of 111., 1868, p. 136
•Bept. Univ. of lU., 1868, p. 139
•Rept. Univ. of HI., 1868, p. 98; also Controller's Eept., Univ. of ID.,
Sept. 2, 1913, pp. 86-7
*Rept. Univ. of HL, 1868, pp. 140-2
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tract already owned by the University. Among the lots pur-
chased at this time were those lying between the Institute
grounds and Springfield Avenue.® So much of White and
Stoughton Streets as crossed this portion of the campus was
vacated by the city of Urbana, as also were the alleys run-
ning thru blocks 52 and 53, in accordance with a special Act
of the General Assembly.® The city of Urbana was permitted
however, to extend Green Street across the campus. ^^ By
the end of the year 1867, therefore, the University property
extended continuously — except as it was crossed by Spring-
field Avenue, and by Green Street — from University Avenue to
the south line of the 160 acre farm.^^ South of this farm was
the Mount Hope Cemetery, and beyond the cemetery was the
so-called South Farm of the University, comprising 410 acres.
The 400 acre tract, known as the Griggs farm, was a mile east
of the South Farm. The total amount of land possessed by the
University at this time amounted to about 1017.97 acres, ^^ ^nd
was valued at approximately $123,270.
The accompanying map of the University grounds, re-
printed from the University Trustees' Eeport for 1870-71,**
p. 17, shows the grounds practically as they were at the end
of the first year of the University's existence — only three addi-
tional lots having been purchased between the years 1867 and
1871. The Griggs farm of 400 acres does not appear upon
the map.
The detailed legal description of the lands acquired by
the University at various times will be found at the end of
this chapter. The following is a summary of the lands acquired
during the year 1867. The figures in the column headed
*'Item" refer to the legal description of the property at the
end of the chapter.
•Bept. Univ. of III., 1868, pp. 117-19
•Eept Univ. of lU., 1868, p. 138; Private Laws of lU., 1869, Vol. H,
300
"Eept Univ. of HI., 1868, pp. 138-42
"ComptroUer's Eept., Univ. of lU., Sept. 22, 1913, pp. 86-7
*«Cf. Eept., Univ. of HI., 1870-71, pp. 16-18
"Ibid
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LANDS ACQUIBED IN 1867
City Property
in
Urbana and Champaign
Item
Aeres |
Cost*
1
7.4
$40,000
8
5.2
5,100
9
.2
300
10
.2
300
11
.2
150
12
\2
560
13
.2
300
14
.4
500
15
36.6
7,500
16
.2
750
17
.4
600
Total
51.2
$56,060
Farm Land* at
Urbana and Champaign
Item
Acres
Cost*
2
53.65
$ 5,300
3
21
2,210
4
7
1.000
5
80
6,000
6
405.12
28,700
7
Total
400
24,000
966.77
$67,210
SUMMARY
Acres
Cost*
City Property Acquired in 1867
Farm Property " " *'
Total Property '* " *'
51.2
966.77
$ 56,060
67,210
1017.97
$123,270
II. From 1868 TO 1904
During the thirty-seven years from 1868 to 1904 no large
additions were made to the campus proper, and no additions
were made to the acreage of the farm lands.
The most important acquisition was that of nearly the en-
tire tier of lots, 198 feet deep (from east to west), lying east
of that portion of the campus which extended from Springfield
Avenue to the north line of the ''160 acre farm.'* Mathews
Avenue was opened as far south as this line and thus became
'Estimated value if donated
HDf the farm land, items numbered 3, 4 and 5 are now within the cor-
porate limits of the city of Urbana, and the north 80 rods of item 2,
embracing 40 acres, are within the limits of the City of Champaign.
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the eastern border of the campus for approximately 160 rods.
These lots amounted in all to about 11 acres. Of these, 41^
acres were purchased in 1886, 6% acres in 1894, and about a
fourth of an acre in 1903.^*
About 20 lots near the right of way of the railroad com-
pany, which had not been secured when the 40 acre tract was
purchased in 1867, were acquired at intervals during the years
from 1869 to 1904. These amounted to about four acres.^**
The sale of the Griggs farm of 400 acres was considered
by the Trustees of the University as early as 1867. At a meet-
ing of the executive committee held June 14 of that year a
motion was carried providing that a committee be instructed
''to obtain offers for the Griggs farm, or some part thereof,
and report at the next meeting of the executive committee. "^^
The proposition to sell the farm was voted down on two oc-
casions by the Board as a whole — November 27, 1867, and
March 11, 1868^'^— but in 1872 eighty acres of the farm were
sold;^® in 1878, one hundred and sixty acres ;^® and the remain-
ing one hundred and sixty acres were sold in 1896.20
In 1896 the transfer of the Chicago College of Pharmacy
to the University resulted in the acquisition by the University
of three parcels of land in Chicago, having an aggregate area
of between two and three acres.^o
By 1904, therefore, the domain of the University comprised
about 635 acres. The general outline of the campus had
changed very little from its form in 1867, the most noticeable
change being the increase of 198 feet in the width of the main
campus as already described. But the sale of the "Griggs
farm" had reduced the farm lands belonging to the University
by 400 acres.
>X:Jomptroller 's Kept., Univ. of 111., Sept. 22, 1913, pp. 87-88
^•Bept., Univ. of HI., 1868, p. 141
»1bid, pp. 102, 133
»R€pt., Univ. of lU., 1872-3, p. 136
"From Becords of Champaign County
•"Kept. Univ. of 111., 1896, p. 241; Comptroller's Beport, Univ. of 111.^
September 22, 1913, p. 92
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LAND AOQUntED FBOM 1868 TO 1904
City Property
in
Urbana and Champaign
Item
Acres |
Cost*
18
.4
$ 400
19
.2
200
20
.2
150
21
.89
450
22
.2
150
23
2.2
830
24
6.3
4,500
25
.38
8,700
26
.3
4,800
27
LI
7,000
28
.27
5,500
29
.81
Total
13.28
$27,680
City Property
Chicago
in
Item
1 Acres
Cost*
30
2«64
$2,300
SUMMABY
Acres
Cost*
City property acquired in 1867
'' " 1868-1904
Farm property acquired in 1867
'' '* *' '* 1868-1904
Total
Less Sales
Net Total— 1904
51.2
15.92
966.77
$ 56,060
29,980
67,210
1,033.89
400.2
$153,250
24,200
633.69
$129,050
^Estimated value, if donated
"Comptroller's Eeport, U. of HI., 1913, p. 88
m. From 1904 TO 1920
During the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920 substantial
additions were made both to the campus proper and to the
farm lands occupied by the University.
In 1905 two lots on the west side of Mathews Avenue and
north of Green Street were purchased.^* Three lots at the
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southwest comer of Mathews and Springfield Avenues were
purchased in 1916. These two purchases completed the owner-
ship by the University of the entire block of land bounded
by Mathews, Springfield and Burrill Avenues and Green
Street."
In 1911 and 1912 eight lots east of Mathews Avenue were
purchased,^^ comprising a tract of land extending from
Mathews Avenue thru to Gtoodwin Avenue and from the street
railway south to the creek. Nearly three acres were included
in this purchase. In 1913-14 thirteen lots lying east of the last
mentioned tract were purchased, comprising about three
acres.^^ Three additional lots adjacent to these thirteen were
purchased in 1915.^* The land embraced in these two tracts
was acquired for the use of various departments of the College
of Engineering.
During the year 1913-14 the University purchased also six
lots in the block bounded by Mathews, Stoughton, Goodwin
and Springfield Avenues.^* Upon this land a building for the
School of Education has been erected.
During the same year a tract of ten acres within the limits
of the City of Champaign, extending from First Street to the
Illinois Central Railroad, was purchased and assigned to the
Department of Botany.^^ Two lots also were purchased in
1914 at the southeast comer of Springfield and Mathews
Avenues as a site for the botany greenhouses.*^ Another block
in Champaign, adjoining the campus and bounded by Wright,
Healy and Sixth Streets and the interurban right of way, was
purchased in 1914 as a site for a laboratory, a pond and an
insectary for the Department of Zoology.*^ The Vivarium has
already been erected upon this tract. In 1914-15 three lots
on Nevada Street in Urbana were purchased as a site for a
Women's Residence Hall.*^
"Min. of Bd. of Trustees, U. of lU., 1916-18, pp. 124, 136
•Eept., U. of HI., 1916, p. 768
■HUomptroller's Beport, 1914, pp. 51-51^
•CJomptroUer's Beport, Univ. of HI., 1914, pp. 51-52
"ComptroUer's Beport, Univ. of lU., 1915, p. 76
"Bept, Univ. of HL, 1914, p. 753
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In 1917, three lots having a total frontage of 180 feet on
Nevada Street between (Joodwin and Mathews Avenues,
Urbana, were purchased, and a residence upon one of these
lots was assigned temporarily as the President's House, the
former official residence of the President having been given
over to other uses. It is the intention to use these lots in the
future as a site for another residence hall for women students.*®
A lot on Sixth Street, Champaign, directly west of the Ad-
ministration Building was purchased in 1917 to serve as a site
for a University Press building which should house the courses
in Journalism, the print shop, the office of the University pub-
lications, and the University Press.*^
In 1907 a farm of 40 acres was purchased and another
of 40 acres in ISll.^^^ These two purchases gave the University
possession of all of section 19 except the south half of the two
south quarters. In 1913-14 five tracts of farm land were pur-
chased, containing respectively 13, 160, 40, 80 and 40 acres —
a total of 333 acres.®^ The 13 acre tract lies east of the ceme-
tery and therefore unites the so-called South Farm with the
160 acre tract given the University in 1867. The other four
purchases constitute the west half of Section 20 and therefore
are east of and contiguous to the South Farm.
Between September, 1917, and April, 1918, the University
purchased as a site for the new McEinley student hospital a
group of six lots which include the entire frontage on Armory
Avenue between Third and Arbor Streets to a depth of 174
feet. Also a lot on Stoughton Street was added to the Educa-
tion Building site, and two pieces of tenant property on Har-
vey Street were purchased.®^
In 1915 three tracts of farm land comprising a total of
thirty-two and a half acres lying south of the City of Cham-
paign, west of Fourth Street, were purchased by the Univer-
sity .^^ The University purchased in 1916 a farm of 84 acres
directly west of the original "South Farm.'*®*
"Mill., Bd. of Trustees, U. of lU., 1916-18, pp. 239, 252, 340, 345
"Min., Bd. of Trustees, U. of HI., 1916-18, pp. 333, 512
"^Comptroller's Keport, U. of HL, 1914, pp. 51-52
"Comptroller's Report, U. of HI., 1918, pp. 91-92
"Kept., Univ. of HI., 1916, p. 779
"Mill, of Bd. of Trustees, U. of HI., 1916-18, pp. 137, 180
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In the summer of 1917 forty acres of woodland three and a
half miles northeast of Urbana were purchased l)y the Univer-
sity, to serve as a natural history preserve for the especial use
of the departments of botany, entomology and zoology.^* In
1919, 20 acres immediately north of this tract were purchased
and added to it.
The total cost of the 48 city lots in Urbana and the two un-
divided blocks in Champaign purchased during the sixteen
years, amounting in all to about 23.17 acres, was $227,722.33.
The cost of the 569.35 acres of farm land amounted to a total
of $404,555.46.
In 1913, alumni of the Medical School of the University,
together with other friends of medical education, secured and
donated to the University the entire stock of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. The acceptance of this
stock brought to the University the property of that College,
including the land occupied, amounting to a total of about
1.3 acres.35 The value of this land was estimated at $60,000
by a committee of the Chicago Real Estate Board in June,
1913.8«
In 1914-15 the so-called ''acre property" in Chicago, a part
of the land acquired with the School of Pharmacy in 1896, was
sold. This tract contained about two and a half acres.*''
In 1915 three adjoining pieces of property in Chicago in
the vicinity of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry of the
University of Illinois, were purchased as a site for the School
of Pharmacy .5®
In 1917 four lots near those of the School of Pharmacy were
purchased as an addition to the Chicago campus.*^
In addition to the lands occupied by the University at
Urbana and in its vicinity, a large number of tracts of farm
land in various parts of the state are used by the Agricultural
••Ibid. pp. 95, 333, 412
■Eept., Univ. of lU., 1914, pp. 172-4, 204
•Ttept., Univ. of Dl., 1914, p. 257
•Ttept., Univ. of m., 1916, p. 190
"Ibid, p. 861
"ComptroUer'B Beport, Univ. of lU., 1918, p. 92-93, Tract No. 105, 106
Min., Bd, of Tnwtees, Univ. of lU., 1916-18, p. 240
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Experiment Station of the University as experiment fields. The
General Assembly of 1901 appropriated $20,000 for soil investi-
gation. This amount has been increased by subsequent legis-
latures. Fifty thousand dollars was appropriated in 1903, in
1905, and in 1907 ; $120,000 in 1909 and $130,000 in 1911. Sev-
eral experiment fields were established in 1901, and within
six years twenty fields were occupied. At first such tracts
of land were rented for a term of years ; but since 1905 many
fields have come into the possession of the University by gift
or by purchase, chiefiy by the former method.
At the present time thirty fields are owned by the Uni-
versity. Two of these, comprising a total of 105.33 acres, have
been purchased. The cost of the two fields was $6,675, an
average of $63.37 per acre. Twenty-eight fields with a total
area of 608.39 acres have been donated to the University. The
approximate value of this land is $87,772, or about $145 an acre.
During the past sixteen years, therefore, the University has
acquired for experiment fields, outside of its holdings at Urbana,
thirty tracts of land containing 713.72 acres and a total value
of $94,447.*o
Twenty leased fields are still occupied also, having a com-
bined area of 349.95 acres. The sum paid as rental for these
tracts amounts to $2,683.10 a year. The list of the leased fields
is as follows :^i
LOCATION
Anna
Antioch
Bloomington
Oarlinville
Gentralia
LOCATION
Champaign
Cutler
De Kalb
Dubois
Fairfield
ACRES
ANNUAL RENTAL
2
$20.00
1.7
8.50
4.4
60.00
20
00.00
16
•
ACRES
ANNUAL RENTAL
80
$1,000.00
18.5
117.60
36.25
290.00
5
25.00
20
100.00
«»ComptroUer'8 Beport, Univ. of HI., 1913, pp. 89flP, 1914, pp. 52-53;
Corrected 1920
**Rept., Univ. of Ol., 1914, p. 742 (list corrected 1920)
*0n a half -crop basis
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• Oncmamds
■ Vc«KTAftuc Gauocm*
AGRicui;ruRAL Experiment Fields, 1920
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Fairfield
20
100.00
Flora
15
60.00
Qalesbarg
25
200.00
LouisviUe
15
75.00
McNabb
6
36X)0
Odin
20
100.00
Bockford
10
120.00
Union Grove
20
200.00
Urbana
4
60.00
Virginia
ILl
IILOO
Total 349.95 $2,683.10
Various crops are grown on each of the soil experiment
fields, and in several cases for the special purpose of crop
experiments. Some of the experiment fields are operated pri-
marily for crop investigation. Six others are under the direc-
tion of the Department of Horticulture. One field, in addi-
tion to those already mentioned, is operated by the department
of Horticulture under a cooperative agreement. This is an
orchard at Neoga, containing 40 acres, which has been under
the direction of the department since 1911.
On June 8, W14, Captain Thomas J. Smith of Champaign,
a former trustee of the University, announced to the Board of
Trustees his intention to donate four farms containing an ag-
gregate of 768.19 acres and valued at approximately $215,000
to the University for the purpose of providing funds for the
erection of a building for the School of Music as a memorial
to his wife. In the course of the next three months the transfer
of this property to the University was completed. The trustees
assigned a site immediately east of the Auditorium for the
building, which is known as the Tina Weedon Smith Memorial
Building, plans were prepared for the structure, and work was
commenced in the fall of 1916 and completed in 1920. This
gift represents the largest single donation thus far made by an
individual to the University.*^ One of the four farms, contain-
ing 214 acres, was sold in August, 1917. The other three farms
have since been sold.*^
«Rept., Univ. of lU., 1914, p. 755; 1916, pp. 120-123, 137-141
«Min. of Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of HI., 1916-18, pp. 123, 136, 512;
1918-20, pp. 86, 214, 292, 294, 408.
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LAND ACQUIRED BY THE UNTVEBSITY, 1904-20
City Property in
Urbana and Champaign
Item
Acres
Cost*
31
1.1
$15,000.00
34
.3
2,500.00
35
.19
5,600.00
36
JS
1,800.00
37
2
4,350.00
38
.4
4,450.00
39
.27
6,450.00
40
.78
10.800.00
41
.4
5,000.00
42
.4
11,000.00
43
.2
3/JOO.OO
44
.2
2,600.00
45
.15
3,000.00
46
.85
4,450.00
47
.12
1,500.00
48
.2
3,500.00
49
.2
1,450.00
50
.2
1,800.00
51
.15
5,000.00
52
.15
6,800 jOO
53
.15
4,800.00
54
.15
2,500.00
55
.15
2,850.00
56
.15
2,600.00
57
1.16
14,000.00
63
10
7,705.81
64
.4
10,000.00
65
.22
3,601.59
66
.22
3,601.59
67
.22
3,601.60
68
.6
10,116.88
70
.6
12,000.00
72
.12
1,400.00
73
.24
16,500.00
74
.24
3,869.00
76
.34
6,500.00
77
.28
3,639.14
78
.31
6,005.38
79
.31
6,231.34
80
.15
3,250.00
81
Total
.2
23.17
2,400.00
$227,722.33
Farm Land at
Urbana and Champaign
Item
Acres Cost*
32
40 $12,000.00
33
40 20,000.00
58
13 20,481.33
59
160 160,000.00
60
40 24,000.00
61
80 48,000.00
62
40 24,074.13
69
32.35 50/)00.00
71
84 34,000.00
75
40 12,000.00
75a
ToUl
20 6,000.00
589.35 $410,555.46
City Property in
Chicago
Item
Acres
Cost*
82
1.16
$60,000.00
83
.21
16,100.00
84
.14
9,000.00
85
.21
10,000.00
86
.17
16,676.67
87
.13
14,248.33
87a
.07
1,337.50
87b
Total
.07
2.16
1,800.00
$129,162.50
^Estimated value, if donated
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Experiment
Fields
Thrnoat niinoiB
Item
Acres
Cost*
88
16
$ 320
89
15
750
90
20
l/)00
91
86
4,875
92
15
3,000
93
20
4,000
94
20
6,500
95
20
3,500
96
20
4,000
97
19.33
1,800
98
21.41
4,282
99
20
4,000
100
20
3,000
101
25
1,800
102
20
1,500
103
30
1,800
104
29.31
3,000
105
20
4,500
106
20
1,500
107
24
1,920
108
20
6,500
109
17
1,600
110
20
500
111
17.09
4,000
112
31
8,000
113
20
5,000
114
20
3,000
115
32.58
1,300
116
40
6,000
116a
Total
15
1,500
713.72
$94,447
Lands donated by
Captain Thomas J. Smith
to provide funds for
Musie Building
Item
Acres
Estimated
Value
117
118
119
120
240 $54,000
214 53,000
234.19 72,000
80 36,000
Total
768.19 $215,000
^Estimated value, if donated
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Summary op Land Acquired by the University Durinq the
. Past Fifty Tears:
(1) About 981 acres valued at $110,710 were donated to
the University by Champaign County to secure its location
in that county in 1867. During the year 1867 the Board of
Trustees purchased sufficient land to bring the total up to about
1017.97 acres. For this purpose $16,060 was expended. The
total value of the land owned by the University by the end
of the year 1867 was therefore approximately $123,270.
(2) During the thirty-seven years from 1868 to 1904 the
University acquired about 16 acres of city property, of which
it sold .2 acres, as well as 400 acres of farm land. Its domain,
therefore, comprised about 633.19 acres in 1904. Twenty-nine
thousand, nine hundred and eighty dollars had been expended
for land, and land originally valued at $24,200 had been sold.
The net increase in the value of the University holdings on
the basis of their original cost was, therefore, $5,780; and
the total value of the University lands in 1904 on this basis
was $129,050.
(3) During the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920, the Uni-
versity bought 23.17 acres of city property in Urbana and
Champaign at a total cost of $227,722.33, and 589.35 acres of
farm land in the vicinity of the two cities at a cost of $410,-
555.46— a total of 592.52 acres at a cost of $638,277.79. In addi-
tion, thirty experiment fields located in various sections of
the state were acquired by gift or by purchase, containing
a total area of 713.72 acres, and having a combined value of
$94,447. Two and a half acres of city property in Chicago,
originally valued at about $1,900, were sold; but other prop-
erty in that city, amounting to 2.02 acres and having a value
of approximately $129,162.50 was acquired. In 1914 four farms
having a total area of about 768.19 acres and valued at ap-
proximately $215,000 were donated to the University, from the
sale of which funds should be provided for a building for the
School of Music.
The total net area added to the domain of the University
during this period (excluding the T. J. Smith land to be sold)
was 1,328.26 acres — an increase of 217 per cent over the num-
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ber of acres owned by the University in 1904. The value of
the land so added was $861,887.29, or nearly six and a half
times the original cost of all the land owned by the University
in 1904. On June 30, 1920, the University possessed land
amounting to 1,959.45 acres and having a value, on the basis
of its original cost, of $987,437.29. The actual value at that
date was, of course, much greater.
SUMMABY OP PBOPEETY
1867-1920
1867 Aerea Cost
City property
Urbana-Champaign 51.2 $ 56,060
Farm property 966.77 67,210
Total 1017.97 $ 123,270
1868-1904
City property
Urbana-Champaign 13.28 $ 27,680
Chicago 2.64 2,300
Farm property
Total 15.92 $ 89,980
1904-1920
City property
Urbana-Champaign 23.17 $ 227,722.33
Chicago 2.02 129,162.50
Farm property
Urbana-Champaign 589.35 410,555.46
Experiment fields 713.72 94,447.00
Total 1,328.26 $ 861,887.29
TOTAL 2,362.15 $1,015,137.29
Less Sales 402.7 27,700.00
NET TOTAL— 1920 U,959.45 $ 987,437.29
*By deducting 1.6 acres of Urbana-Champaign property which has
been converted into streets the total acreage in 1920 becomes 1,957.85.
<See Comptroller's Beport, Univ. of BL, 1918, p. 92)
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SUMMABY OP PEOPEETY SALES
Acres I Price
1867 • • • • • • •
1868-1904
City Property
Item 14, Lot 206 2 $ 200
Farm Property
Item 7, Griggs Farm 400.0 24,000
Total 400.2 $24,200
1904-1920
City Property
Item 30, Part of Sec. 12 2.5 $ 3,500
Farm Property* ....
Total 2.5 $ 3,500
TOTAL 402.7 $27,700
LIST AND DESCRIPTION OP LANDS ACQUIRED BY
THE UNIVERSITY
I. At Ubbana and Champaign in 1867
1. (13)** 1867. Commencing at the N W comer of the
S W l^ of S E l^ of Sec 7, Twp. 19 N R 9 #., at a stone
placed at the intersection of E Main Street and Wright Street
as shown by the plat of the Seminary Addition to Urbana re-
corded in Book *'G'' page 208 of the records remaining in the
Recorder's Office of said Champaign County, running thence
E 462 ft; thence S 700 ft.; thence W 462 ft.; and thence N
700 ft. to the place of beginning, the said property being known
as the Seminary Grounds in the City of Urbana. 7.4 acres,
$40,000.
2. (7) 1867. Beginning at the N E comer of the S W 1/4
of Sec. 18, Twp. 19, R 9 E, 3d P. M., thence W 80 rods to
the centre of the north and south road known as the "Ceme-
tery Road'' then S along the centre of said road 107.30 rods,
*See note on page 54
^Numbers in parenthesis indicate the order in which the items
appear in the Comptroller's Bept., June 30, 1918, p. 64
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thence E 80 rods, thence N on the half section line to the place
of beginning, containing 53-13/20 acres, more or less, the same
being so much of the shares of George and Joel Hormel in
the real estate of Joseph Hormel, deceased, as lays east of said
Cemetery Road. 53.65 acres, $5,300.
3. (2) 1867. Beginning at N W comer of S y2 of S E 14
of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M., running thence S 28
rods, thence E 120 rods, thence N 28 rods, thence W 120 rods
to the place of beginning, containing 21 acres, situated in Urbana
in the County of Champaign and State of Illinois. 21 acres,
$2,210.«
4. (3) 1867. Beginning at N E comer of S J^ of S E 14
of Sec 18, Twp 19 N., R 9 E of 3d P. M., running thence S 28
rods, thence W 40 rods, thence N 28 rods, thence E 40 rods
to the place of beginning, containing 7 acres, situated in Urbana,
in the County of Champaign and State of Illinois. 7 acres,
$l,000.-»3
5. (5) 1867. N V2 of S E 14 of Sec 18, Twp. 19 N, R 9 E
of 3d P. M., 80 acres, $6,000.*^
6. (4) 1867. NWi/4;NV2SWi4;SV20fNEi4;NW
14 of S E l^; and N E 14 of N E 14 all in Sec 19, Twp 19 N,
R 9 E of 3d P. M., containing 410 acres. It being understood
that a strip 4 rods and 20 links wide off the W side of S V^
of Lot 2 of N W 14 and a strip of like width off the W side of
Ny2 of Lot 2 of the S W 14 of said Sec. 19, containing 4.88, is
excepted from this conveyance. 405.12 acres, $28,700."*^
7. 1867. SV2;andSy2NEi4;bothinSec21,Twpl9N,
R 9 E, 3d P. M. 400 acres, $24,000.^^
8. (6) 1867. Lots No 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 in block
53, Seminary addition to Urbana.^® Also Lots No 1, 2, 3, 5, 6,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12 in block 52, and Lots 1 and 12 in block 53,
Seminary addition to Urbana. 5.2 acres, $5,100.
9. (1) 1867. Lot 139 of a Subdivision of the S part of
Lot 1 of S W 14 of Sec 7 in Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M.,
City of Champaign, County of Champaign, and State of Illinois.
.2 acres (Street), $300.
•Donated by Champaign County; estimated valne
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10. (8) 1867. Lot 174 of a Subdivision of the S part of
Lot 1 of the S W 1^ of Sec 7, Twp 19 N, R 9 E. .2 acres
(Street), $300.
11. (9) 1867. Lot 208 of a Subdivision of the S part of
Lot 1 of the S W 1^ of Sec 7, Twp 19 N, R 9 E, of 3d P. M.
.2 acres (Street), $150.
12. (10) 1867. Lot 7 in Block 52 of the Seminary addition
to Urbana, as per plot of said addition recorded in said County
of Champaign. .2 acres, $560.
13. (11) 1867. Lot 173 of a Subdivision of the S part of
Lot 1 of the S W l^ of Sec 7, Twp 19 N, R 9 E, now comprising
a portion of the City of Champaign. .2 acres (Street), $300.
14. (12) 1867. Lots 206 and 207 of Subdivision of S part
of Lot 1, S W ^ of Sec 7, Twp 19 N, R 9 E, 3d P. M. .4 acres
(Lot 207 street), $500.
15. (14-A) 1867. The W Vg of the W Vg of the N E i^
of Sec 18 in Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M., save and except
the following tracts or pieces of land, to-wit: Commencing at
a point 1 chain and 78 links E of the N W comer of above
described tract, thence E 2 chains; thence S 2 chains and 50
links; thence W 2 chains; thence N 2 chains and 50 links to a
point of beginning; also Lots 1, 2 and W V^ of 3 in block 10;
also Lots 1, 5, and 6 in block 11 ; also Lots 1, 5 and 6 in block
12 — ^also the Right of Way of the Urbana Railroad Company
across the N end of tract of land first above described as per plat
of Urbana Railroad Company duly surveyed and recorded in
ofSce of Recorder of Deeds in the County of Champaign and
State aforesaid; said exceptions aforesaid comprising a part or
portion of land off the N end of said forty acres first above
described. 36.6 acres, $7,500.
16. (15) 1867. Lot 4 of block 52 of the Seminary addition
to Urbana. .2 acres, $750.
17. (16) 1867. Lots 105 and 106 of a Subdivision of Lot
1, S W 14 of Sec 7, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of the 3d P. M. .4 acres
(Street) $600.
18. (17) 1869. Lots 5 and 6 in Block 11 in the ''Urbana
Railroad Company's Addition*' to the City of Urbana, as ap-
pears from the Record of said plat or addition in Record "R"
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of Deeds at page 800 of the Records of said County, the said
lots being on the N end of the W y2 of the N W 14 of the N E ^
of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E, 3d P. M. Said Lots 5 and 6 being
bounded on the N by the Springfield road, on the S by the
Urbana Street Railroad, and on the E and W by University
Land. .4 acres, $400.
19. (18) 1871. Lot 140 of a Subdivision of Lot 1 in the
S W 14 of Sec 7, Twp 19 N, R 9 E, of 3d P. M. 2 acres
(Street) $200.
20. (19) 1880. 34 ft. off the W side of Lot 5 in Block 12
in Urbana Railroad Addition to the City of Urbana, Illinois.
Also the W y2 of Lot 3 in Block 10 in the Urbana Railroad
Addition to the City of Urbana, Illinois. .2 acres, $150.
21. (20) 1883. E 1/2 of Lot 5 and all of Lot 6, Block 12,
and Lots 1 and 2 in Block 10 and a strip of land 66 ft. E and
W by 132 ft. N and S, formerly reserved for a street between
said blocks 10 and 12, described as follows: Beginning at the
N E comer said Lot 6 in block 12; thence E 66 ft; thence
S 132 ft.; thence W 66 ft. and thence N 132 ft. to place of
beginning; all said lots and tracts of land being in what is
sometimes called the Urbana Railroad Addition to the City of
Urbana, as the same is recorded in Book ''R," page 800, of the
Record of Champaign County, Illinois. .89 acres, $450.
22. (21) 1885. Beginning 310 links S and 75 links E of
the N W comer of the N W 1^ of the N E l^ of Sec 18, Twp
19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M. and running S 2 chains; thence E 1
chain ; thence N 2 chains ; thence W 1 chain to the place of be-
ginning. .2 acres, $150.
23. (22) 1886. Lots 12, 13, 18 and 19 of Joseph Nelson's
addition to the City of Urbana. 2.2 acres, $830.
24. (23) 1894. Commencing at a stone at the S W comer
of the E 1/2 of S W 1^ of N E ^A of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E
of 3d P. M., running thence N to a stone at the N W comer
of the E 1/2 of S W lA of N E l^, Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E
of 3d P. M., running thence E 201 ft. and 6 in. to a point
which would be on the W line of Mathews Ave (formerly
Nelson Avenue) extended S from the point where said Avenue
is now open to the point of the S line of said E V^ of S W l^ of
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N E l^ of said Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M., running
thence S along the said extended W line of Mathews Avenue to
the S line of E Vg of S W i^ of N E i^ of Sec 18, Twp 19 N,
R 9 E of 3d P. M., thence W to the place of beginning, being
6-1/3 acres, more or less, being situated in the County of Cham-
paign in the State of Illinois. 6.33 + acres, $4,500.
25. (24) 1901. Beginning 1471/2 ft. E of N W comer of
N W 1/4 of N E 1^ of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M.,
and running thence E 100 ft. ; thence S 165 ft. ; thence W 100
ft. ; thence N 165 ft. to a place of beginning. .38 acres, $3,700.
26. (25) 1901. Beginning at a point 66 ft. E of the N W
comer of the N W l^ of the N E l^ of Sec 18, Twp 19 N,
R 9 E of 3d P. M., and mnning thence E 8iy2 ft. ; thence S
165 ft. ; thence W 8iy2 ft. ; thence N 165 ft. to a place of be-
ginning. .3 acres, $4,800.
27. (26) 1903. Commencing at a point 205 ft. S of the
N W comer of the E 1/2 of N W l^, N E l^ Sec 18, Twp 19 N,
R 9 E of 3d P. M., thence E 198 ft., thence S 268.80 ft., thence
W along the creek to a point in the W line of said Ei^ of
N W V4 of N E 34 of said Sec 18, 249 ft. S of place of beginning,
thence N on said line to beginning excepting a piece of land de-
scribed as follows: Commencing at a point 344 ft. S of N W
comer of said E y2 of N W 14 of N E 1/4 of said Sec 18, Twp
19 N, R 9 E, thence E 198 ft., thence S 60 ft., thence W 198 ft.,
thence N to a place of beginning, with right of way 10 ft. wide
oflp S side of property on N adjoining. Said land above described
being Lot 3 of Subdivision of said E 1/2 of N W lA of N E i^,
as shown by a plat recorded in Book 10, of Deeds, at page 642
(Gk)odwin's 2d Addition to Urbana). 1.1 acres, $7,000.
28. (28) 1903. Commencing 344 ft. S of N W comer of
E y2 of N W lA of N E 14 of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of
3d P. M., thence E 198 ft., thence S 60 ft., thence W 198 ft,
thence N to the point of commencing, with right of way 10 ft.
wide oflP S side of property on the N adjoining. .27 acres, $5,500.
29. (14-B) 1903. A strip of ground forty feet wide and
extending from Wright Street in Champaign E to what is known
as Nelson or Mathews Avenue in Urbana and located in the
N W l^ of the N E 1^ of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M,
.81 acres, Gift.
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30. (36) 1896. W Va of E 1/2 of N W 14 of N E 14 of Sec
12, Twp 38 N, R 13 E of 3d P. M.; also lots 4 and 5 in block 5
of McBride, Spencer and Underwood's Subdivision E of Archer
Avenue, in Ei/g of N W 14 of Sec 1, Twp 38 N, R 13 E of 3d
P. M. 2.64 acres, $2,300.*^
in. Lands Acqttired at Urbana and Champaign
From 1904-20
31. (27) 1905. Lots 4 and 5 of Joseph Nelson's Addition
to the City of Urbana in the County of Champaign, State of Illi-
nois. 1.1 acres, $15,000.
32. (30) 1907. The N W i^ of the N E ^ of Sec 19, Twp
19 N, R 9 E of the 3d P. M. 40 acres, $12,000.
33. (46) 1911. N E 1^ of S E 1^ of Sec 19, Twp 19 N,
R '9 E of 3d P. M., containing 40 acres more or less. 40 acres,
^0,000.
34. (51) 1911. Beginning 8 rods S of N E comer of Lot 1
of Wm. M. (Joodwin's Second Addition to Urbana, thence W
8 rods, thence S 100 ft, thence E 8 rods, thence N 100 ft. to
the place of beginning. .3 acres, $2,500.
35. (52) 1911. Commencing at a point 232 ft. S of N E
eomer of Lot 1 of Wm. M. (Goodwin's Second Addition to Ur-
bana, thence W 8 rods, thence S 65 ft., thence E 8 rods, thence
N 65 ft. to the place of beginning. .19 acres, $5,600.
36. (47) 1911. Beginning at a point 8 rods S and 8 rods
W of N E comer of Lot 1 of Wm. M. Goodwin's Second Addi-
tion to the town (now city) of Urbana and running along W 8
rods, thence S 10 rods, thence E 8 rods, thence N 10 rods to
the place of beginning, containing ^ acre more or less. .50
acres, $1,800.
37. (48) 1911. Beginning 126 ft. S of N W comer of Lot 2
in Wm. M. Goodwin's Second Addition to the City of Urbana,
thence E 2 chains, thence S 66 ft., thence W 2 chains, thence
N 66 ft. to the place of beginning, situated in the City of Urbana
and County of Champaign. .2 acres, $4,350.
'Estimated value. See GomptroUer's Beport, 191.^, p. 92
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38. (49) 1911. Beginning at the N E corner of Lot 1
of Wm. M. (Joodwin's Second Addition to Urbana, running
thence S 8 rods, thence W 8 rods, thence N 8 rods, thence E 8
rods to the place of beginning, situated in the City of Urbana
and County of Champaign. .4 acres, $4,450.
39. (50) 1911. Beginning 192 ft. S of N W comer of
Lot 2 in W. M. (Joodwin's Second Addition to the City of
Urbana, thence E 2 chains, thence S 95.76 ft., thence W 2 chains,
and from thence N 82.56 ft. to the place of beginning, situated
in the City of Urbana, in the County of Champaign and in the
State of Illinois. Also all right and title to 7 ft. and 2 inches
off the E side of Mathews Ave. contiguous upon the W to the
above described premises as released by ordinance adopted by
the City Council of the City of Urbana, May 2, 1910, and ap-
proved by the Mayor of the said City, May 3, 1910. .27 acres,
$6,450.
40. (56) 1912. The N 8 rods of the W 8 rods of Lot 1,
and the N 126 ft of Lot 2, and 7 ft. and 2 inches off the E side
of Mathews Ave. where the said Ave. is contiguous to said above
described premises, all in William M. Goodwin's Second Addi-
tion to Urbana, Illinois. .78 acres, $10,800.
41. (62) 1913. Lot 4 in William M. €k)odwin's Addition
to the City of Urbana, Illinois, situated in the City of Urbana,
Illinois, County of Champaign, State of Illinois. .4 acres, $5,000.
42. (65) 1913. Lot 3 and the W y2 of Lot 2 in WiUiam
M. Goodwin's Addition to the City of Urbana, Illinois. .4 acres,
$11,000.
43. (63) 1913. Lot 4 in Block 6 in the Urbana Railroad
Company's Addition to Urbana. .2 acres, $3,500.
44. (64) 1913. AU.of lot 5 in Block 6 in the Urbana RaU-
road Company's Addition to Urbana except by the E 1 foot
thereof. .2 acres, $2,600.
45. (76) 1913. The N 115 ft. of Lot 6 and the E 1 foot of
Lot 5 in Block 6 in the Urbana Railroad Company's Addition
to Urbana. .15 acres, $3,000.
46. (66) 1913. The E Vg of the S 60 ft. of the N 1241/2
ft. of Lot 2 of William M. Ck)odwin's 1st Addition to Urbana.
The N 59y2 ft. of the S 1191/2 ft of Lot 1 in William M.
Goodwin's Addition to Urbana.
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The E 77 ft to Lot 2 in Block 2 in Porpee, Cortifls and
Somers Addition of onMots to the City of Urbana. .85 acres,
H450.
47. (67) 1913. The S 55 ft. of the E 1/2 of Lot 2 of William
M. (Goodwin's Addition to the City of Urbana, situated in the
City of Urbana, County of Champaign, and State of Illinois.
.12 acres, $1,500.
48. (68) 1913. The N V2 of Lots 1 and 2 in Block 4 in
the Urbana Railroad Company's Addition to Urbana, situated
in the City of Urbana, County of Champaign, and State of
Illinois. .2 acres, $3,500.
49. (69) 1913. The N 60 ft. of Lot 1 of William M. Good-
win's Addition to the CSty of Urbana. .2 acres, $1,450.
50. (70) 1913. The S 60 ft of Lot 1 of WiUiam M. Ck>od-
win's Addition to Urbana, Illinois, situated in the City of
Urbana, County of Champaign and State of Illinois. .2 acres,
$1,800.
51. (71) 1913. Lot 7 in Block 55 in the Seminary Addi-
tion to the City of Urbana, Illinois. .15 acres, $5,000.
52. (72) 1913. Lot 8 in Block 55 in the Seminary Addi-
tion to Urbana, situated in the City of Urbana, CJounty of Cham-
paign and State of Illinois. .15 acres, $6,800.
53. (73) 1913. Lot 9 in Block 55 in the Seminary Addi-
tion to Urbana, Illinois. .15 acres, $4,800.
54. (74) 1913. Lot 5 in Block 55 in the Seminary Addi-
tion to Urbana, Illinois. .15 acres, $2,500.
55. (75) 1914. Lot 6 in Block 55 in the Seminary Addi-
tion to the City of Urbana, Illinois. .15 acres, $2,850.
56. (78) 1914. Lot 3 in Block 55 in the Seminary Addi-
tion to the City of Urbana, Illinois. .15 acres, $2,600.
57. (79) 1914. Block 6 of J. S. Wright's Addition to the
City of Champaign, except the N 14 ft. thereof. 1.16 acres,
$14,000.
58. (80) 1913. Beginning at the S E corner of Sec 18,
Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M., thence N 52 rods, thence W 40
rods, thence S 52 rods, thence E 40 rods to the place of begin-
ning, and containing 13 acres more or less. 13 acres, $20,481.33.
59. (81) 1913. N W lA of Sec 20, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of
3d P. M., situated in County of Champaign, State of Illinois.
160 acres, $160,000.
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60. (84) 1913. N W ^ of S W l^ of Sec 20, Twp 19 N,
R 9 E of 3d P. M. 40 acres, $24,000.
61. (83) 1913. The S V2 of the S W 14 of Sec 20, Twp
19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M. 80 acres, $48,000.
62. (82) 1913. The N E l^ of the S W 14 of Sec 20, Twp
19 N, R 9 E of the 3d P. M., containing 40 acres. 40 acres,
$24,074.13.
63. (85) 1913. Lot 2 of a Subdivision of the S 1^ of Sec 13,
Twp 19 N, R 8 E of the 3d P. M. 10 acres, $7,705,81.
64. (90) 1914. Lots 5 and 6 in Block 1, in Joseph Nelson's
Addition to Urbana, described as commencing at a point on Sec
line 16 rods W of the N E comer of the N W 14 of the N E 14
of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of the 3d P. M., thence W 8 rods,
thence S 10 rods, thence E 8 rods, thence N 10 rods to be-
ginning. .4 acres, $10,000.
65. (87) 1914. Lot 23 in the Forestry Heights Addition
to the C!ity of Urbana. .22 acres, $3,601.59.
66. (88) 1914. Lot 24 of the Forestry Heights Addition to
Urbana, Illinois. .22 acres, $3,601.59.
67. (89) 1914. Lot 25 in the Forestry Heights Addition
to Urbana, Illinois. .22 acres, $3,601.60.
68. (93) 1915. Lots 1, 2 and 3, Block 6 in the Urbana Rail-
road Company's Addition to the City of Urbana, Illinois; being
a part of the N E 14 of the N E 14 of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E
of 3d P. M. .6 acres, $10,116.88.
69. (94) 1915. S 5 acres of Lot 9, also the S 3.73 acres of
Lot 10, also all of Lot 12 in William Williamson's Subdivision
of the W y2 of the S W l^ of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d
P. M. Also beginning at a point 6.22 chains N of the S W
comer said Sec 18, running thence N 7.08 chains to a stone,
thence E 9.35 chains to a stone, thence S 7.08 chains to a stone,
thence W 9.35 chains to place of beginning. 32.35 acres, $50,000.
70. (110) 1916. Lots 1, 2 and 3 of Joseph Nelson's Addi-
tion to Urbana, as shown by plat dated May 1, 1869, and re-
corded in Book 18, page 224 of the Records of Champaign
County, Illinois, in the City of Urbana. .6 acres, $12,000.
71. (101) 1916. The S E i/4 of N E 1/4 and the N E %
of S E 14 of Sec 24, Twp 19 N, R 8 E of 3d P. M., and all that
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part of the S W 14 of the N W ^4 and all that part of the
N W 14 of the S W 14 of Sec 19, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M.,
lying W of the public highway known as the 1st Street Boad,
sJl of said premises being otherwise described as, beginning at
the N W comer of the S E 14 of the N E 14 of Sec 24, thence
S 160 rods, thence E 84 rods and 20 links, to the public high-
way, thence N along the line of said highway 160 rods to the
highway running E and W, thence W to the place of beginning,
all of said premises lying and being in the County of Champaign
and State of Illinois, together with all the appurtenances and
hereditaments thereto belonging. 84 acres, $34,000.
72. (97) 1917. E 35 ft. of Lots 4 and 5 in Block 4 of
Nina B. Bronson's Subdivision of part of the E 1^ of S W %
of N E 14 of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of the 3d P M. .12
acres, $1,400.
73. (98) 1917. Lot 2 in Block 4 of Nina B. Bronson's
Subdivision of a part of the E 1/2 of the S W ^4 of the N E 14
of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of the 3d P. M. in the City of
Urbana. .24 acres, $16,500.
74. (99) 1917. Lot 3 in Block 4 in Nina B. Bronson's
Subdivision of a part of the E % of the S W 14 of the N E 14
of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E of the 3d P. M., situated in the
City of Urbana. .24 acres, $3,869.
75. (100) 1917. The S Vg of the N W ^4 of the S W ^
of the N 1/2 of the S W 34 of the S W 14 of Sec 1, Twp 19 N,
R 9 E of the 3d P. M., in the County of Champaign and State
of Illinois. 40 acres, $12,000.
75a. (115)* 1918. The N 1/2 of the N W 14 of the S W ^
of Sec 1, Twp 19 N, B 9 E of the 3d P. M. (Adjoins and com-
pletes the previous item; used for research in natural science.)
20 acres, $6,000.
76. (102) 1917. The N 1/2 of S W Va of Block 13 of J. S.
Wright's Addition to the City of Champaign. .34 acres, $6,500.
77. (103) 1917. Lots 70 and 75 in College Place, an Addi-
tion to the City of Champaign, being a part of the N W frac-
tional quarter of the S W 14 of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 E, of
the 3d P. M. .28 acres, $3,639.14.
78. (104) 1917. Lots 71 and 72 in College Place, an Addi-
tion to the City of Champaign, being a part of the N W frac-
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tional quarter of the S W 14 of Sec 18, Twp 19 N, R 9 B of
the 3d P. M. .31 acres, $6,005.58.
79. (108) 1918. Lots 73 and 74 in CoUege Place Addi-
tion to the City of Champaign, Illinois. .31 acres, $6,231.34.
80. (Ill) 1918. Lot Four (4) in Block 55 in the Seminary
Addition to the City of Urbana, Illinois. .15 acres, $3,250.
81. (112) 1918. The S V2 of Lots 1 and 2 in Block 4 of the
Urbana Railroad Company's Addition to Urbana, Illinois. J2
acres, $2,400.
IV. Land Acquired Outstoe Urbana and Champaign
1904 TO 1920 :
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1. In Chicago
82. (96) 1913. Lots 15 and 16, 17, 18 in Balestier's
Subdivision of Block 23 in Ashland 2nd Addition to Chicago
according to the plat entitled ''Balestier's subdivision of Blocks
11, part of 14, 18, E V2 of 19, 22 and all of 23 in Ashland 2nd
Addition to Chicago, recorded in the Recorder's Office of Cook:
County, in the State of Illinois in Book 166 of Maps, pages 70^
and 71, and recorded in the same office in Book 14 of Plats;,
page 85: Also Lots 1 to 7 inclusive, in Block 23, also sublots
1 to 7 inclusive of Lots 19 to 25 inclusive, in Block 23 and the
vacated alley running N and S through said Block 23 in the
Ashland 2nd Addition to Chicago, in the W ^^ of the N E 14
of Sec 18, Twp 39 N, B 14 E of the 3d P M, including the build-
ings thereon, together with the furniture, fixtures and apparatus
therein, and all the right of way over any alleys adjacent to
said buildings now held by the grantor. 1.16 acres, $60,000.
83. (95) 1915. Lots 14, 15 and 16 in Carpenter's Re-sub-
division of the W half of Block 5 in Assessor's Division of the
E half of the S E l^ of Sec 18, Twp 39 N, R 14 E of the
3d P. M. .21 acres, $16,000.
84. (95-A) 1915. Lots 12 and 13 and the S 1 and 3-12 ft.
of Lot 14 in the Re-subdivision of the W ^ of Block 5 in the
Assessor's Division of the E 1^ of the S E l^ of Sec 18, Twp
39 N, R 14 E of the 3d P. M. .14 acres, $9,000.
85. (95-B) 1915. Lots 9, 10, 11 in Carpenter's Re-sub-
division of W 1/^ of Block 5 in Hadduck's Subdivision into
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Blocks 4, 5 and 17 of that part of E % of S E 14 of Sec 18,
Twp 39 N, R 14 E of the 3d P. M., set oflP to said Hadduck in
partition of said tract by order of Superior Court of Chicago,
July 7, 1859, Cook County. .21 acres, $10,000.
86. (105) 1917. Lots 7 and 8 and the N 10 ft. of Lot 6,
with the improvements situate thereon, known as numbers 721
and 725 S. Wood Street, Chicago, Illinois, in the Be-subdivision
of the W 1^ of Block 5 in the Assessor's Division of the E y^
of the S E 14 of Sec 18, Twp 39 N, R 14 E of the 3d P. M. .17
acres, $16,676.67.
87. (106)1917. Lots 4 and 5 in Eisenstein's Be-subdivision
of Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 and S 15 ft. of Lot 5 in Carpenter's Be-
subdivision of the W ^ of Block 5 in Assessor's Division of
E Va of S E l^ of Sec 18, Twp 39 N, B 14 E of the 3d P. M. .13
acres, $14,248.33.
87a. (113)^ 1918. Lot 9 in the E Vg of Block 5, in Had-
duck 's subdivision of Blocks 4, 5, and 17, in the Assessor's Di-
vision of the E 1/2 of the S E ^ of Sec 18, Twp 39 N, B 14 E
of the 3d P. M. (Located at 720 S. Hermitage Ave., Chicago.)
.07 acres, $1,337.50.
87b. (114)* 1918. The N 10 feet of Lot 5 and the S 15
feet of Lot 6 in the Be-subdivision of the W % of Block 5 in
the Assessor's Division of the E V^ of the S E l^ of Sec 18,
Twp 39 N, B 14 E of the 3d P. M. (Located at 727-729 S.
Wood St., Chicago.) .07 acres, $1,800.
2. Experiment Fields
88. (29) 1905. Beginning at a point 20 ft. E of the N W
comer of the N W l^ of the N E i/4 of Sec 9, run thence S
350 ft., thence E 1062 ft. to the W line of the right-of-way of
the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Bailway Com-
pany, thence run along the said line of right-of-way in a north-
westerly direction 1173 ft., thence run in a southwesterly direc-
tion in the S W % of the S E 14 of Sec 4, 868 ft. to the place
of beginning, containing 16 acres more or less. All of said
*ComptroUer'8 Beport, 1919, page 48
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land is situated in Twp 13 S of the base line, B 3 E of 3d P M.
16 acres, $320.*«
89. (31) 1909. The S 15 acres ofNEViNW34Sec22,
Twp 8 S, R 6 E, 3d P. M. 15 acres, $750.*8
90. (32) 1909. The E i/g of the S E 14 of the S W 14 of
Sec 11, Twp 5 S and R 3 E of 3d P. M. 20 acres, $1,000.^8
91. (33) 1909. W 1^ S W l^ Sec 36 (except 10 acres ont
of N E comer) also tract commencing at point 12 chains S of
N W comer ofEy^SWy^ Sec 36, Twp 4 N, R 10 E, thence
running S 28 chains and 19 links, thence E 4 chains and 26 links,
thence N 28 chains and 19 links, then W 4 chains and 26 links
to the beginning; contains 12 acres more or less; also another
tract commencing at the N E comer S E 14 S^ 35, Twp 4 N,
R 10 E, thence S 40 chains to the Twp line (Twp 4), thence
W 1 chain, thence N 40 chains, thence E 1 chain to beginning
(except 11 acres at N W comer). 86 acres, $4,875.
92. (34) 1909. 15 acres of land in N E comer of the N E 14
of Sec 11, Twp 28 N, R 1 E of the 3d P. M., said tract of land
being more particularly described as follows : Beginning at the
N E comer of the said N E 1/4 of Sec 11, running thence W
along the N line of said N E l^ 80 rods, thence S parallel with
the E line of said Sec 11 30 rods, thence E parallel with the N
line of said Sec 11, 80 rods to the E line of said Sec 11, thence
N along the E line of said N E 14 of Sec 11, 30 rods to the
place of beginning. 15 acres, $3,000.*®
93. (35) 1909. Commencing at the N E comer of the N W
14 of Sec 36, Twp 18 N, R 10 E of 4th P. M., County of Bureau
and State of Illinois, thence W along the N line of said ^ section
60 rods, thence S 53-1/3 rods, thence E 60 rods, thence N along
the E line of said 14 section 53-1/3 rods to a point of beginning
comprising a tract of 20 acres. 20 acres, $4,000.*®
94. (37) 1910. 20 acres out of the S E part of Sec 18,
Twp 14 N, R 3 W, 4th P. M., beginning at the tile set 2 chains
and 5 links N of S E comer of said Sec 18 and on the N boundary
of the highway, thence N along the E line of said Sec 18, 9 chains
and 89 links to tile set in the ground, thence W 19 chains and
22 links to tile set in the ground, thence S 10 chains and 89
donated for Agricultural Experiment ileld; estimated value
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links to tile set in the ground on N boundary of public highway,
thence in an easterly direction along N boundary of highway
19 chains and 31 links to place of beginning. 20 acres, $6,500>®
95. (38) 1910. A part of the N Vg N W 14 Sec 35 Twp
24 N, B 9 E 4th P. M., described as follows: Commencing at a
point on N line of said section, 12^4 chains W of N E comer
N W 14 of said Section and running thence W on Sec line 15
chains, thence S 13-1/3 chains, thence E parallel to the section
line 15 chains, thence N 13-1/3 chains to the place of beginning.
20 acres, $3,500.*»
96. (39) 1910. Lot 4 in the subdivision of the W % of the
S W 14 of Sec 19 in Twp 5 N, R 6 W of the 4th P. M., accord-
ing to a survey and plat thereof made by Gteorge W. Payne,
Surveyor, and recorded in Plat Book 5, page 18, in the Re-
corder's office of Hancock Co., Illinois, said lot containing 20
acres situated in the County of Hancock and State of Illinois.
20 acres, $4,000.*<>
97. (40) 1910. Commencing 13 chains and 50 links W
of the N E comer of Sec 2, Twp 3 N, B 10 E, thence running
W 5 chains and 92 links to the N W comer of N E 14 of N E 14
of Sec 2, Twp 3 N, Bange 10 E, thence running S 22 chains
and 60 links to the S W comer of a 44 acre tract, thence run-
ning E 9 chains and 91 links, thence running N 14 chains and
36 links; thence W 4 chains, N 8 chains and 25 links to the
place of beginning. Containing 19-1/3 acres off of the W side
of the N E l^ of the N E l^. 19.33 acres, $1,800.
98. (41) 1910. A part of the E V2 of the S E ^ of Sec 26,
Twp 22 N, B 8 E of 4th P. M., bounded as follows, to-wit: Com-
mencing at a point on the E line of the aforesaid section, at the
intersection of said section line with north boundary line of
public highway known as the Dixon and Sterling road, the said
starting point being located at a distance of 331 ft. N of S E
comer of said section; thence running N upon E line of said
section 1506 ft., thence W at right angles with E line of said
section 660 ft., thence S parallel with E line of said section
1320 ft., to the N boundary of above mentioned highway, and
thence in an easterly direction along the N boundary of said
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public highway 685.25 ft. to place of beginning, containing 21.41
acres, more or less, also conye3ring all right and title to land
l3dng N of center of said public highway and S of premises
above described, all of said premises being situated in County
of Lee and State of Illinois. 21.41 acres, $4,282.«>
99. (42) 1910. 20 acres oflP the W end of the N Vg S W %
of Sec 35, Twp 1 N, R 5 W, of 4th P. M., situated in County of
Adams and State of Illinois. 20 acres, $4,000.«>
100. (43) 1910. Parts of lots 43^ in S W l^ Sec 19, Twp
2 N, R 6 W of 3d P. M., described as follows : Beginning 325 ft.
S of intersection of S line of Second S. Street and E line of
right-of-way of E. St. Louis and Suburban R. R. Company,
thence S along E line of said railway 743.03 ft, thence E parallel
with S line of Second S. Street 1172.5 ft., thence N parallel with
E line of said railway 743.03 ft., thence W 1172.5 ft. to place
of beginning. 20 acres, $3,000.«>
101. (44) 1910. All of the N % of the S W % of the
N W 14 of Sec 15, Twp 16 S, R 6 E, also five acres on the S
side of the S Vg of the N W lA of the N W l^ of Sec 15, Twp
16 S, R 6 E. 25 acres, $1,800.«>
102. (45) 1911. Twenty acres off the S side of the N E 14
of the N E ^ of Sec 1, Twp 6 N, R 14 W of the 2d P. M., sit-
uated in the County of Crawford and State of Illinois. 20
acres, $1,500.«>
103. (53)1911. TheE30acresoftheNWi4oftheNE^
of Sec 3, Twp 6 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M., situated in the County of
Jasper. 30 acres, $1,800.«>
104. (54) 1911. Commencing at a point on the N line of
Sec 15, Twp 11 N, R 1 E of 3d P. M., 1718 ft W of the N E
comer of the N W 1/4 of said Sec 15, thence easterly along said
N line of said section (on or near the centre line of the public
highway) 1652 ft. thence southerly 33 ft. more or less to the
S line of said public highway, thence southerly on a line parallel
with the E line of said N W l^ of said Section 740 ft., thence
westerly on a line parallel with the said N line of said section
1652 ft more or less to the E line of the public highway laid
out and dedicated to the public by Baldwin & Baldwin, thence
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N along the E line of said last mentioned highway 740 ft., to
the S line of said public highway along the N line of said Sec-
tion, thence N 33 ft. more or less, to the place of beginning;
containing in all 29.31 acres more or less, situated in the County
of Christian and State of Illinois. 29.31 acres, $3,000.«i
105. (55) 1911. The S 1/2 of the S W 14 of the S W 14 of
Sec 22, Twp 21 N, R 3 W of the 3d P. M., in Logan County,
State of Illinois, being 20 acres more or less, for the purpose
of an experiment farm or field. 20 acres, $4,500.*^^
106. (57) 1912. The E Vg of the N E 14 of the S E ^
of Sec 9, Twp 5 S, R 8 E of the 3d P. M., White County, Illinois,
20 acres, $l,500.«^i
107. (58) 1912. Twenty-four (24) acres off the W end
of the S y2 of the N E l^ of Section 18, Twp 1 N, R 11 E.
24 acres, $l,920.«^i
108. (59) 1912. A part of the E y2 of the S E ^ of
Sec 22, Twp 17 N, R 13 W of the 2d P. M., beginning at the
S W comer of said E 1^ of said S E ^, thence E on the S line
thereof 30.3 rods, thence N parallel to the W line of said E %
to the S boundary line of the right-of-way of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois R. R. as the same is now located across said
E y^, thence southwesterly along said S boundary line of said
right-of-way to the W line of said E 1^ of said S E 1^, thence
S with the W line of said E 1^ to the place of beginning, situ-
ated in the County of Vermilion in the State of Illinois, hereby
releasing and waiving all rights under and by virtue of the
Homestead Exemption Laws of this State. 20 acres, $6,500.^^
109. (60) 1913. 17 acres of even width off the S side of
the N E l^ of the S W 1^ of Sec 31, Twp 10, R 9 E, of 3d
P. M., situated in the County of Cumberland. 17 acres, $1,600.'^
110. (61) 1913. Commencing at a point 1193.5 ft. W of
the S E comer of the N W 1^ of Sec 23, Twp 11 N, R 5 W
of the 4th P. M., and mnning thence W 907.5 ft., thence N 962.5
ft., thence E 907.5 ft., thence S 962.5 ft. to the place of begin-
ning, containing twenty acres more or less. 20 acres, $500.'*
111. (77) 1914. A part of the W half of the S W ^ of
Sec 34, Twp 16 N, R 11 E of 4th P. M., described as follows.
^Donated for Agrieultural Experiment Field; estimated value
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to- wit: Commencing at a point on the E line of the W i^
S W 14 of said Sec 34, 150 ft. S of the N E corner of the said
W 1/2 of said S W 14 Section, and running thence W 435.92
ft., thence S 177.52 ft., thence W 133 ft., to a point which is
327.52 ft. S of the N W comer of Lot 2 in the S W 14 of
said Sec 34, and thence S 1180.61 ft., thence E 562.92 ft., and
thence N to the point of beginning containing 17.093 acres
more or less. 17.093 acres, $4,000.«^2
112. (86) 1913. Commencing at the S W comer of the
N W 34 of Sec 31, Twp 36 N, R 10 E of the 3d P. M., thence
B on the S line of said i/i section, 2,050 ft., thence N on a line
parallel with the W line of said ^ section 658.75 ft. ; thence
W on a line parallel with the S line of said ^ section, 2,050 ft.
to the W line thereof, and thence S on the W line of said %
section 658.75 ft. to the place of beginning; also commencing
at the N E comer of the 31 acre tract above described, and
running thence W on the N line thereof 3 rods, thence N to
the center of the Plainfield Road, thence southeasterly in the
center of said road to a point directly N of the place of be-
ginning and thence S 100.75 ft. to the place of beginning. 31
acres, $8,000.«^2
113. (91) 1914. The N 20 acres of the W Vg of the N W 14
of Sec 18, Twp 14 N, R 5 B of the 4th P. M. 20 acres, $5,000.'^2
114. (92) 1915. A tract of land in the S E 14 of S E 14
of Sec 36, Twp 4 S, R 6 W, Randolph County, Illinois, more
particularly described as : Beginning at a stone at N W comer
of S E 14 of the S E 14 of Sec 36, thence running E along the
N line of said S E 14 of the S E i^ of Sec 36 for a distance
of 1177.5 ft., thence S parallel to and 147.5 ft. W of E line of
Sec 36 for a distance of 727.5 ft., thence W parallel to and
692.5 ft. N of the S line of Sec 36 for a distance of 1181 ft.
to the W line of said S E i^ of S E 14 of Sec 36, thence N
along said W line of the S E 14 of S E 14 of Sec 36 for a
distance of 727.5 ft. to the point of beginning. 20 acres,
$3,000."
115. (107) 1917. The W part of the E Vg of the S E i^
of Sec 14, Twp 12 S, R 8 E, and more particularly described
'^Donated for Agrieoltaral Experiment iHeld; estimated valae
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by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at the S W cor-
ner of the S E 14 of S E 14 of above Sec, thence running
N 79 degrees, E 4.00 chains, thence N 58 degrees, E 7.70 chains,
thence N 21.00 chains, thence W .40 chains, thence N 14.70
chains, thence W 9.93 chains, thence S 40.55 chains to the place
of beginning, containing 32.58 acres more or less. 32.58 acres^
$l,300.w
116. (109) 1917. The E Vg of the S Vg of the S E 14 of Sec
14, Twp 5 N, R 6 W of the 3d P. M., containing 40 acres,
$6,000.w
116a. (116)* 1919. Beginning at a point 13% rods N and
287.6 ft. W of the S E comer of the S W 14 of Sec 34, Twp 7 N,
R 11 W of the 2d P. M., running thence W 229.4 ft., thence N
397.25 ft., thence W 62% rods, thence S 620 ft., thence E 76/57
rods, thence N 222% ft. to place of beginning. (Located near
Palestine, Crawford County, Illinois.) 15 acres, $1,500. ^
3. Land Acquired bt Gift fob Spbcial Purpose
117. 1914. TheSWi4andWy2ofSEi4ofSec26,Twp
20 N, R 10 E of 3d P. M., Champaign County, (near St. Joseph,
Illinois). 240 acres, $54,000."
118. 1914. Champaign County— All that part of N % of
Sec 23, Twp 22 N, R 9 E of 3d P. M., which lies west of the
Illinois Central right-of-way. 214 acres, $53,000.^*
119. 1914. The N W 34 and S 1/2 of N E l^ Sec 31, Twp
22 N, R 8 E of 3d P. M., less Illinois Central right-of-way, Cham-
paign County. (Adjoining Fisher, Illinois.) 234.19 acres,.
$72,000."
120. 1914. The E 1/2 of S W 14 of Sec 14, Twp 19 N, R 8 E
of 3d P. M., Champaign County. (Adjoining Champaign, Illi-
nois.) 80 acres, $36,000."
•ComptroUer'g Beport, 1919, p. 48
^n^onated for Agricultural Experiment Field; estimated value
^Donated by Captain T. J. Smith of Champaign to provide funds
for the erection of a Memorial Music Building; estimated value. Bee
Comptroller's Beport, 1918, p. 104
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CHAPTER III
BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT
One of the items contained in the offer of Champaign County
in 1867 to secure the location of the University was **the Urbana
and Champaign Institute buildings and grounds." There was
however but one building — a brick structure one hundred
twenty-five feet in length and five stories in height. According
to the early catalogs of the University, the public rooms of this
building were sufScient for the accommodation of over four
hundred students and it had private study and sleeping rooms
for one hundred thirty.
The first legislature which met after the organization of the
University appropriated $25,000 for bams, tools, etc., for the
agricultural department, and $20,000 for a greenhouse, bams,
trees, etc., for the horticultural department. The next legisla-
ture, meeting in 1871, appropriated $25,000 for a building to
be used as a drill hall for the military department and as a
shop for the department of mechanical science and engineering.
It appropriated also the first $75,000 for a main building to
cost $150,000.* The next legislature, however, appropriated only
$41,550 for the completion and equipment of the latter building.^
Succeeding legislatures appropriated funds from time to time
for the erection of minor buildings, but with the exception
of a chemical laboratory in 1878 costing $40,000 no large build-
ing was provided for during the sixteen years from 1873 to 1889.
In the latter year $10,000 was appropriated for an armory, and
scarcely a legislature since that time has failed to provide funds
for one or more University buildings.
A complete list of the principal buildings which have been
erected by the University and which are still in use is here
given.
It should be added that besides the buildings enumerated in
the following lists certain others no longer in existence have
been occupied by the University for various periods of time.
*Eept., Univ. of HL, 1870-71, pp. 15-16
*Bept., Univ. of HI., 1872-3, p. 148
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Thus the original ''Champaign and Urbana Institute building '^
was used from 1868 until 1880, but was so badly damaged by
storms during the spring of the latter year* that it could not
longer be occupied and was soon afterward razed.
In 1899 the building which had been erected in 1872 at a cost
of $25,000 to accommodate the wood shops and to serve as a
drill hall was totally destroyed by fire.*
Fire destroyed also the Experiment Station bam in 1889*^
and the Animal Husbandry bam in 1910.^
In August of 1890 the Chemical Laboratory was damaged to
the extent of $40,000 by fire caused by lightning, and in the
following June the University suffered a loss of $75,000 by the
partial destruction of the Natural History building by fire orig-
inating in the same manner.''
It should be noted that, although the University is not per-
mitted to insure its buildings, on the theory that "the state is
carrying its own insurance," no fund is provided for replacing
automatically any building that has been burned, nor can the
necessary funds be taken from the state treasury for this pur-
pose except by specific appropriation at some subsequent legis-
lative session.
UNIVEBSITY BUILDINGS ERECTED FBOM 1867 TO 1904
Date of Original
Erection CoBt
1873 University Hall $ 150,000
1878 Law Building (formerly Ghemiatry Laboratory) 40,000
1890 Men's Gymnasium Annex (formerly Armory) 16,000
1890 Implement Shed (South Farm) 500
1890 Animal Husbandry House (South Farm) . . ; 1,500
1892 Natural History Building 70,000
1893 Dairy Bam (Pure Bred Cattle) 7,500
1894 Engineering HaU 160,000
1895 Metal Shops 20,000
1895 Horse Bam (General) 3,090
1896 Observatory 16,000
1896 President's House (old) 16,000
«Bept., Univ. of lU., 1880, p. 17
*Rept., Univ. of HI., 1900, p. 301
•Kept., Univ. of HI., 1890, p. 95
•Kept., Univ. of HI., 1912, p. 506
^Alumni Becord, Univ. of 111., 1913, pp. 46, 47
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Date of Original
Erection Cost
1897,1902 Old Power Plant 20,000
1897 Greenhouse (University) 7,800
1897 library 100,000
1898 Electrical Laboratory 40,000
1900 Agricultural Building 165,000
1901 Gymnasium, Men's 50,000
1901 Pumping Station 8,000
1902 Chemistry Laboratory 130,000
1902 Laboratory of Applied Mechanics 30,000
1902, 1904 Wood Shop and Foundry 42,000
1903 Swine Sheds 2,000
Total oost of buildings, 1867 to 1904 $1,153,890
BUILDINGS EBBCTED FBOM 1905 TO 1920
Date of Original
Erection Cwt
1905 Agronomy Field Laboratory $ 17,000
1905 Beef Oftttie Bam 28,000
1905 Entomology Building (State) 8,850
1905 Horticultural Field Laboratory 18,000
1905 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (See be-
low) 86,000
1905 Woman's Building (See below) 80,000
1907 Farm Mechanics Building 33,000
1907-13 Dairy Buildings 21,500
1908 Auditorium 185,787.78
1908, '14, '17 Isolation Hospital (formerly Horticultural ser-
vice building) 3,500
1908, '12, '16 Agricultural Building (addition) 25,325.09
1909 Natural History Building (addition) 165,000
1909 Physics Laboratory 220,000
1910 Power Plant (new) 46,780
1911 Lincoln Hall 234,225
1911 Work Horse Barn 1,500
1911-16 Animal Husbandry Bams 8,850
1912 Poultry Plant 2,000
1912 Agronomy Greenhouse 12,000
1912 Mining and Ceramics Laboratory 25,000
1912 Commerce Building 101,326.03
1912, 1914 Locomotive Testing Laboratory and Beservoir. 34,270
1912 Transportation Building 86,000
1912 Woman 's Building (addition) 136,308.27
1913 Floriculture, Plant Breeding and Vegetable
Gardening Group 88,000
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Date of Original
Ereetioii Oort
1913 Stock Judging Pavilion 111,652.06
1913 Law Building (reconstruction) 2,460.16
1913 Medical Building (Chicago) 155,000
1913 Dental Building (Chicago) 30,000
1913,1916 Qjmnasium, Men's (reconstruction) 30,554.18
1914 Armory (new) 229,119.17
1914 Storehouse v 1,990
1914 Observatories (addition) 2,461.20
1914 Library (addition) 34,739.84
1914,1916 Gymnasium Annex (reconstruction) 7,947.82
1914 Administration Building 146,118.90
1914 Botany Laboratory and Greenhouse 22,607.85
1915 Chemistry Laboratory (addition) 354,326.77
1915 Battery F Bam 1,381.43
1915 Pharmacy Buildings 61,022.27
1916 Engineering Building (reconstruction) 1,737.40
1916 Ceramics Laboratory 130,998.79
1916 Vivarium 76,244.25
1916 Genetics Building 10,231.30
1916 Soil Bins 9,941.22
1916 Agronomy Bam 3,056.32
1917 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (recon-
stmction) 44,736.16
1917 Women's Besidence Hall 180,247.32
1917 Oittle Feeding Plant 29,625.86
Total $3,246,421.44
INVENTOBY OF BUILDINGS
June 30, 1918'
Estimated
Date of Erection Original Present
(or acquisition) Cost Value
Liberal Arts and Scienoss Group
1896.1914 Astronomical Observatories $ 17,461.20 $ 11,056.12
1914 Botany Laboratory and Greenhouse 22,607.85 21,272.86
1902.1915 Chemistry Building 484,747.53 407,008.84
1905 Entomology Building 8,850.00 6,674.78
1911 Lincoln Hall 234,225.00 211,648.15
1892,1909 Natural History Building 240,286.62 178,447.87
1873 University Hall 150,000.00 22,569.40
1916 Vivarium 76,244.25 74,719.36
. Totals $1,234,422.45 $ 933,397.38
^t Comptroller's Sept., Univ. of HI., 1918, p. 94
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Estimated
Date of Erection Original Present
(or acquisition) Cost Value
ENGiNsiRiNe Gboxtp
1916 Ceramics Laboratory 130,998.79 128,878.81
1898 Electrical Engineering Laboratory. 40,000.00 19,760.23
1894 Engineering Hall 162,278.40 90,566.39
1902 Laboratory of Applied Mechanics. . 30,000.00 22,593.41
1912 Locomotive Laboratory and Beser-
voir 34,270.00 31,606.76
1905, 1917 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory 85,671.90 75,425.38
1895 Metal Shops 20,000.00 11,476.78
1912 Mining and Ceramics Laboratory. 25,000.00 18,535.72
1909 Physics Laboratory 220,000.00 180,050.99
1912 Transportation Building 86,000.00 75,775.56
1902,1904 Wood Shops 42,000.00 29,460.27
Totals $ 876,219.09 $ 683,630.30
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1900 Agricultural Building 191,407.15 122,972.19
1905 Agronomy Building 17,000.00 13,445.60
1912 Agronomy Greenhouse 12,000.00 5,821.12
1907 Farm Mechanics Building 33,000.00 25,114.46
1913 Floriculture Service Buildings and
Gieenhouse 88,000.00 80,366.27
1916 Genetics Building 10,231.30 9,826.14
1906 Horticulture BuUding 18,000.00 7,887.85
1913 Stock Judging Pavilion 111,652.06 103,872.16
1895 Horse Bam (General) 3,090.00 1,241.99
1893 Dairy Bam (Pure Bred) 7,500.00 3,575.42
1905 Beef Cattle Bam 28,000.00 21,176.82
1907 Dairy Farm House 3,000.00 2,256.94
1907 20 Acre Dairy Bam 3,200.00 2,497.04
1912 Dairy Horse Bam 2,000.00 1,728.72
1913 Dfdry House and Shop 2,300.00 2,064.86
1913 Dairy Experiment Bam 11,000.00 9,930.54
1912 Sheep Bams 3,000.00 2,631.50
1912 Brood Marie Bam 3,300.00 2,871.60
1912 Tool Shed 1,750.00 1,551.05
1911 Feed Barn 300.00 294.00
1912 StalUon Bam 500XK) 490.00
1911 Work Horse Bam 1,500.00 1,267.73
1903 Swine Sheds 2,000.00 1,238.92
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Date of Erection Original
(or aequiBition) Cost
191« Soil Bins 9,941^2
1890 Implement Shed 500^
1890 Animal Husbandry House 1,500.00
1916 Agronomy Bam 8,056.82
1912 Poultry Plant 2,000.00
1917 Cattle Feeding Plant 29,625.86
Totals $ 600,358.41
1878 Law Builoing 48,001.16
1912 CoHicxacB BuiLDiNO 101,826.08
General Univibsitt Use
1914 Armory 229,119.17
1915 Battery "P'' Bam 1,721.68
1908 Auditorium 135,787.78
1897 Library 194,739.84
1901 Gymnasium (Men's) 80,554.18
1890 Gymnasium Annex 39,161.11
1905, 1908,
1912, 1914 Woman 's Building 217,232.98
1917 University Isolation Hospital 16,758.80
1913 1210 Springfield Avenue, Demon-
stration Serviee, ete 1,487.50
Totals $ 916,507.54
1914 Adhinistbation Buildinq 146,118.90
1896 Presidbnt 's House (Old) 15,000.00
1917 President's House (Nevada
Street) 17,152.25
1917 WoHAN 's Besidence Hall 180,247.32
Service Buildings
1897 Greenhouse 7,800.00
1910 New Power Plant 46,780.00
1897,1902 Old Power Plant 20,000.00
1901 Pumping Station 8,000.00
1914 Wareliouse 1,990.00
Totals $ 84,570.00
Tenant Houses, Urbana-Champaign
1911-1916
806 South Sixth Street 2,275.00
1011 Bailroad Street 478.93
Estimated
Present
Value
9,547.55
490.00
1,455.00
2,935.29
1,940.00
29,625.36
$ 470,116.12
23,088.87
91,646.17
215,643.41
1,687.25
107,096.87
127,156.96
52,556.14
80,278.46
183,400.71
15,816.40
1,282.13
$ 734,918.33
140,332.59
5,565.42
16,898.57
180,247.82
4,898.04
41,470.07
12,422.77
6,233.00
1,872.78
$ 66,896.66
2,229.50
427.38
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Estimated
Date of Erection Original Present
(or acquisition) Cost Value
502 South Goodwin Avenue 2,700.00 2,646.00
502% South Goodwin Avenue 2,500.00 2,450.00
504 South Goodwin Avenue 1,683.79 1,505.91
506 South Goodwin Avenue 1,236.83 1,105.90
504 South Harvey Street 288.00 288.00
506 South Harvey Street 679.48 606.97
510 South Harvey Street 1,100.00 658.83
1207 West Stoughton Street 940.00 940.00
Totals $ 13,882.03 $ 12,858.49
Totals, Urbana 4,228,800.18 3,359,546.72
Chicago Depabtmsnts
1913 Medical Building 155,000.00 151,900.00
1913 Dental Building 30,000.00 29,400.00
1915 Pharmacy Building 61,022.27 59,801.82
Tenant Buildinqs, Chicago
1917 1756-1758 West Polk Street 10,248.33 10,248.33
1917 721-725 South Wood Street 13,076.67 13,076.67
totals, Chicago $ 269,347.27 $ 264,426.82
Grand Totals $4,498,147.45 $3,623,972.54
In addition to the buildings actually completed by the sum-
mer of 1918, there were various structures upon which work
had already been commenced. The following table indicated
that the sum of $253,959.78 had already been spent upon such
projects up to June 30, 1918.
INYENTOBY OP CONSTBUCTION IN PR0GBBS8
June 30, 1918*
Addition to Library $ 244J27
Athletic Field 61.63
Chemistrj Laboratory Addition 10,527.18
Clinical Building 514.55
Education Building 127,751.75
Horticulture Field Laboratory ". ... 2,221.17
HDf. Comptroller's Eeport, Univ. of HI., 1918, p. 96. Of the buiidinge
listed above, the Education Building, Music Building, and the Artillery
Bams have been completed (1920). The total expended at the end of the
fiscal year 1919-20 is approximately $5,000,000
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McEinley Hospital 475.60
New library 819.90
Tina Weedon Smith Memorial Music Hall 111,126.10
Natural History Addition 217.67
Total $253^9.78
tTp to the end of the fiscal year 1917-18 approximately $4,498,-
147.45 had been spent for the buildings at present occupied by
the University. Of this sum, $1,153,390, or about 26 per cent
was expended for buildings erected during the 37 years from
1867 to 1904, and $3,344,757.45, or about 74 per cent, for build-
ings constructed during' the fourteen year period from 1904
to 1918.
Of the buildings erected during the past twelve years, six
were constructed in 1905, at a total expense of $187,000, with
funds secured in 1903. If this sum is added to the $1,153,390
spent prior to 1905, the total becomes $1,340,390 for the first 37
years of the life of the University. But this is offset by the fact
that $500,000 was secured from the Legislature in 1917, to be
Bpent during the biennium beginning July 1, 1917.
It will be observed that during the past sixteen years, six-
teen important buildings have been erected. Of this number,
three are buildings of general university use, the Auditorium,
costing $136,000; the new Armory, $230,000; and the Admin-
istration building, $146,000. Two are designed to serve the in-
terests of the Women students — the Woman's building, cost-
ing $217,000, and the Women's Residence Hall erected at a cost
of approximately $180,000. The study of the humanities was
first adequately provided for by the erection of Lincoln Hall
in 1911, at a cost of $235,000. The scientific interests of the
university were given support in the erection of substantial
additions to the Natural History building and the Chemistry
laboratory, costing $165,000 and $365,000 respectively, and a
Vivarium costing $76,000. To the engineering group there were
added a Physics laboratory costing $220,000; a Transportation
building, $86,000 and a Ceramics laboratory, $131,000. The
agricultural group was enlarged by the erection of many minor
buildings and two major structures — a Floriculture, Plant
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Breeding, and Vegetable Gardening group of buildings and
greenhouses, costing $88,000, and the Stock Judging Pavilion
erected at a cost of $112,000. The School of Music and the
College of Education are greatly strengthened by the addition
of the. Smith Memorial Music Building and the Education
Building respectively.
During this period also the Medical, Dental, and Pharmacy
buildings in Chicago were acquired by the University. The
value of the Medical and Dental buildings has been estimated
conservatively at $155,000 and $30,000, respectively. The total
cost of the Pharmacy buildings, which were purchased in 1915
and reconstructed to meet the needs of the School of Pharmacy,
was approximately $61,000.
The following pages contain a description® of the principal
University buildings erected during the years from 1904 to 1920.
The Agronomy Building (erected 1904-5) is 50 by 100 feet
in size, of brick and slate, trimmed with stone. It contains
a field laboratory for crop work in which yields of experimental
plats are studied, sample seeds stored, and specimens preserved.
The Beef Cattle Building (erected 1904-5) is a one-story
structure of brick and slate, trimmed with stone, 217 feet across
the front, with a wing at either end 33 by 49 feet; the central
portion rises two stories and is used for the storage of feed.
Other portions of the building are used as quarters for the breed-
ing herd, and will accommodate about 100 head of cattle.
The Entomology Building (erected 1905) for the use of the
State Entomologist and his staff, is a two-story building 48 by 20
feet, with basement storerooms, and with two insectary wings
of greenhouse construction, each 25 by 20 feet. It contains the
oflSce of horticultural inspection, a stenographer's room, rooms
for the assistant inspectors and insectary assistants, and a large
fireproof vault. The glass-covered wings are equipped for ex-
perimental entomology and life-history studies.
The Horticulture Building (erected 1904-5) is a structure of
brick and slate trimmed with stone, approximately 50 by 100
feet in size. It was designed as a field laboratory for horticul-
tural tests, and contains sorting rooms, storage rooms, and a
•Cf. Univ. of HI. Annual Registers, 1913-1917
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laboratory for the mixing of spraying materials and other opera-
tions in connection with the horticultural work.
The Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (erected 1905) is a
brick building with a frontage of 120 feet and a total depth
of 182 feet, which during the year 1916-17 was changed in the
interior to provide for a basement with an elevated or mezza-
nine operating floor, giving a floor area for laboratory purposes of
28,000 square feet. On the mezzanine floor is mounted all of the
principal equipment in the laboratory ; in the basement auxiliary
apparatus is housed. The front section is two stories high and
together with the two-story addition to the south contains offices,
lecture and computation rooms, a lavatory, and an instrument
room. The main laboratory is divided into three bays, each
approximately 40 feet wide. The middle bay is provided with
a ten-ton, three-motor traveling crane, and the north bay with
a five-ton hand-operated traveling crane. In the basement two
flumes, each three feet deep by four feet wide and 120 feet long,
together with a storage reser\'oir having a capacity of 7,000 gal-
lons, provide for the measurement and storage of water.
The Woman's Building (erected 1905) is in the New Eng-
land colonial style of architecture, of reddish brown brick, with
white stone trimmings. The central part of the structure is
the woman's gymnasium. On the lower floor there are the office
of the Director of Physical Education for Women, a swimming
tank, lockers, dressing rooms and baths. The upper floor is
devoted to the main gymnasium, which is 92 by 50 feet. The
north wing of the building is given to the department of house-
hold science, and the south wing provides rooms for the social
life of the women students.
The addition to the Woman's building (erected 1912) is a
three-story fireproof building with basement. It is 200 feet long
on the front and 83 feet on each connecting wing, having 43,000
square feet of floor area. It has a large colonnade with towers
on the front and two smaller colonnades on the north and south
of the inner court. The addition is similar to the old building
in finish and supplements the working space of the departments
using it. It has two halls for literary societies and a modem
flat on the upper floor, and an institutional kitchen and large
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dining room on the second floor. There are also ofSees for
the Dean of Women and the Director of the Courses in House-
hold Science, laboratories, social rooms, and space for the ex-
pansion of gymnasium work.
The Farm Mechanics Building (erected 1906-7) is a three-
story brick structure containing class rooms, offices, lecture
rooms, drafting room, library, laboratories, and tool and storage
rooms. The third floor, which is reached by an elevator, furn-
ishes storage room for the greater part of $16,000 worth of farm
machinery loaned the College by various manufacturing com-
panies and used for laboratory work. The facilities afforded
by this building, with its equipment, make possible the assem-
bling, testing and adjusting of all the important machines used
in farm operations.
The Auditorium (erected 1907-08) is a brick and stone build-
ing for general meeting purposes. It contains an auditorium
seating about 2,200 and a memorial vestibule. All general
University exercises, including convocations, are held in this
building.
The Experimental Dairy Bams (erected 1912-13) comprise
a round bam 70 feet in diameter with a reinforced concrete silo
in the center, a semi-detached rectangular structure 40 by 70
feet with a Grout silo adjacent, and a small dairy house and
shop 26 by 32 feet. The bams are of frame construction of
brick walls with solid floors of the mill type of construction and
contain feed rooms, hay lofts and other accommodations for the
experimental dairy herd. The dairy house is of frame con-
struction, two stories in height, and contains office, shop, coal
room, dairy room and four sleeping rooms for employees.
Natural History Hall (old part erected 1892; addition 1909)
covers a ground area 135 feet by 275 feet. It is occupied by the
departments of botany, entomology, zoology, physiology, geology
and mathematics, together with the office and equipment of the
State Natural History Survey, and the office of the State Ento-
mologist. A fireproof museum 51 feet by 63 feet in size,
equipped with fireproof and dustproof cases, occupies the center
of the building.
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The Laboratory of Physics (erected 1909) is a three-story
fireproof brick building trimmed with Bedford limestone. The
length is 178 feet and the depth of the wings is 125 feet The
large lecture room has a seating capacity of two hundred sixty-
two. A one-story annex, 78 by 28 feet, contains the ventilating
and heating fans and the machine shop of the department The
total available floor area, exclusive of the basement, is about
60,000 square feet The majority of the large laboratories and
the recitation rooms are in the west wing. The east wing is
of heavy construction and contains about 30 smaller laboratories
for advanced experimental work. The blue print and photo-
graphic laboratory of the University occupies rooms on the
top floor of the building. Gas, distilled water, compressed air
and vacuum, and direct and alternating electric currents of a
wide range in amperes and in volts are available in all parts
of the building.
The Central Heat and Power Plant (erected 1902; addition
1910) contains boilers aggregating 2,500 horsepower. The two
stations furnish steam for heating and power to all buildings
on the campus. A power plant containing a 250-kilowatt Allis-
Chalmers direct connected steam engine and dynamo, a 125-kilo-
watt direct connected Westinghouse engine and generator, and
a 100-kilowatt Curtiss turbo-generator, together with the acces-
sories necessary to a complete power station, supplies current
for light and power to all parts of the grounds. The pipe-lines
of the heating system and the circuits for distributing electricity
are carried from the central plant to the several buildings
through brick and concrete tunnels and clay tile and concrete
conduits. Altogether there are now 6,213 feet of tunnels and
9,876 feet of conduit for the distribution of steam and 48,850
feet of single cell telephone and electric conduit. The new boiler
and power plant provides temporary quarters for the electric
test car of the department of railway engineering.
Lincoln Hall (erected 1911) is four stories in height and
has a frontage of 230 feet with two wings running back 127
feet. The exterior is brick, stone and terra cotta. This build-
ing provides for the advanced work of the departments of the
classics, English, Romance languages, Gtermanic languages, his-
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tory, economics, education, political science, sociology and
philosophy. The first three floors provide, in addition to the
ordinary class and consultation rooms, seminar libraries and con-
ference rooms. On the fourth floor are research rooms and two
museums, the Museum of Classical Art and Archeology and the
Museum of European Culture.
The Sheep Bam (erected 1913) is a wooden structure con-
sisting of a main bam 36 by 90 feet, and a shed, opening to the
south, 25 by 100 feet in size. A 6-foot aisle, lined by pens on
each side, runs through the center of the bam. This building
besides accommodating the University flock is used for experi-
mental work. Its location and construction insures dry footing
and ample light and ventilation thruout the year.
The Ceramic Engineering Eiln House (erected 1912) con-
nects with the Ceramic Engineering Building. It has a floor
area of 11,200 square feet, and contains the kilns, furnaces and
heavy machines for working days.
The Mining Engineering Laboratory (erected 1912) is a one-
story building having a floor area of 3,600 square feet. It con-
tains a chemical laboratory for the department of mining en-
gineering, and a Mine Rescue Station equipped and arranged for
training men in the methods of mine rescue work.
The Commerce Building (erected 1912) is a fireproof build-
ing three stories high, 153 feet on the front and 60 feet deep,
with a one-story annex containing a lecture room 48 feet square.
The building has a total fioor area of about 29,000 square feet
and houses the work in business administration with its various
class rooms, offices and laboratories. The exterior first story
finish is buff Bedford stone ; the second and third stories are of
brick with carved stone trimmings and cornice. The roof is of
tile, and the interior trim is of dark oak.
The Locomotive Testing Laboratory (erected 1912) is a fire-
proof building, with brick walls, 117 feet long and 42 feet wide,
connected by a spur with the Illinois Traction System tracks.
It houses a locomotive testing plant which consists of support-
ing wheels on which rest the drivers of the locomotive to be
tested, a dynamometer to which the locomotive drawbar is at-
tached, and which measures the tractive force exerted by the
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locomotive, water brakes for absorbing the power developed by
the locomotive, and other auxiliary apparatus. The exhaust
gases pass through a ''transite'' (or asbestos board) duct to a
large fan which forces them through a reinforced concrete cinder
separator; the separator removes the cinders and discharges
the gases into the air thru a brick stack eighty feet in height.
The Transportation Building (erected 1912) is a three-story
fireproof building of brick trimmed with stone. The general
dimensions of the building are 65 by 189 feet and the total
floor area is 34,225 square feet. The first and second fioors of
the building are occupied by the departments of railway and
mixiing engineering, and the third fioor is occupied by the de-
partment of general engineering drawing.
The Horticulture Greenhouse Group (erected 1912-13) in-
cludes (1) a floricultural group and (2) a vegetable and plant
breeding group.
(1) The Floriculture Greenhouse Group (erected 1912-13)
consists of a two-story and basement service building 93 by 37
feet, and the following glass structures: four houses each 105
by 28 feet, three houses each 105 by 35 feet, one corridor house
139 by 10 feet, one storage house 50 by 12 feet, and a palm house
80 by 40 feet. The service building is of hollow tile and cement
construction, and contains laboratories, lecture room, herbarium
room, offices, and seminar room, as well as potting, storage and
work rooms.
(2) The Vegetable and Plant Breeding Greenhouse Group
(erected 1912-13) consists of a glass house for vegetable grow-
ing, 105 by 28 feet, two houses for plant breeding each approxi-
mately 80 by 30 feet, a wire house 80 by 30 feet, and a two-
story and basement service building 82 by 36 feet, containing
laboratories, work rooms, class rooms, offices and storage rooms.
The type of construction of this building is the same as that of
the floriculture service building.
The Stock Pavilion (erected 1913) is a flreproof building 54
feet high on the front and 148 feet deep with circular ends 92
feet in diameter and 20 feet high. The total ground area is
30,000 square feet, and the show arena is 216 feet long and 65
feet wide. Seats of concrete provide accommodations for 2,000.
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Arrangements are to be made providing for a division of the
arena into three parts giving three separate judging rooms for
instructional purposes. The building also contains dass rooms
and offices. Stabling will be provided in a separate structure.
The exterior is of brick and terra cotta, renaissance in design,
the frieze being enriched with medallions of animal heads.
The College of Medicine Building (acquired in 1913) in
which are housed all the departments except that of anatomy,
is a brick and stone structure two hundred feet long by one hun-
dred and ten feet deep and five stories high, fronting on three
streets. The building contains three lecture rooms with a seating
capacity of two hundred each; a clinical amphitheater with a
seating capacity of over three hundred ; an assembly hall with
a seating capacity of seven hundred; besides recitation rooms.
It also contains laboratories for physiology, chemistry, materia
medica, therapeutics, and microscopical and chemical diagnosis,
each accommodating from fifty to one hundred students at a
time.
A three-story annex to the main building contains the labora-
tories used by the departments of pathology, bacteriology and
chemistry. All of these laboratories have outside light and are
furnished with work tables, desks, lockers and the necessary
apparatus. There is a supply of microscopes, lenses and oil im-
mersions and a projection apparatus for the illustration of lec-
tures by means of stereoptican views.
The College of Dentistry is housed in a six-story building,
(acquired in 1913) containing three amphitheaters, recitation
rooms and lecture rooms, laboratories, dissecting rooms, a clini-
cal operating room and an infirmary. A parlor is provided for
the use of the women students. The building adjoins that of
the College of Medicine.
The New Armory (erected 1914-15) comprises a drill room
with a clear area 200 by 400 feet and a height of 98 feet at the
center, the roof being carried by fourteen three-hinged arches.
The sides are of hollow tile, and the ends, supported by columns,
are of steel, glass, tile and concrete, with wood frame and sashes.
The drill floor is of sufficient area to permit the maneuvering
of an entire battalion of the cadet regiment. Provision has been
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made for the addition of a balcony aronnd the drill floor with
seats for 3,000 and for the addition of three story facades along
the sides, flanked by towers at each end. This will provide space
for company rooms, locker rooms, shooting tubes and class rooms.
The Isolation Hospital (erected 1908, reconstructed 1914 and
1917) has been used for its present purpose since 1914. It is
a substantial one-story stucco building 27 feet by 103. The
basement as reconstructed, contains a supply room, laboratory
and a complete disinfecting suite, consisting of a formaldehyde
room, a septic room, a sterilizing room, and a physicians' wash
room, locker room and sterile room. The flrst floor is divided
into three wards entirely unconnected with one another. Each
ward has a capacity for seven beds. In connection with each
ward is a nurse's room with bath, a diet kitchen, a linen closet,
and a bath roouL Opening from each ward is a private room
for use as an observation room or for serious cases. The build-
ing is provided with all necessary sterilizing and antiseptic de-
vices in connection with the wards, in addition to the equipment
in the basement
The Administration Building (erected 1914-15) is a three-
story and basement flreproof building of brick and stone. It
is 153 feet long and 66^4 f^t deep with a one-story annex, 48
feet by 42 feet, with a total floor area of 36,000 square feet It
contains the rooms of the Board of Trustees and the offices of
the President, the Registrar, the Comptroller, the Secretary, the
Supervising Architect, the Dean of Men, the High School Visitor,
the Adviser to Foreign Students, the Alumni Association, the
University Press, and the Information and Stenographic Bureau.
This building is the second unit of the Commerce Building, and
will eventually be occupied by that College.
The Chemistry Laboratory (original structure erected
1901-2; addition 1914-15) is a brick building. The original
structure is of slow burning construction, and the addition,
which will have five stories available, fireproof. The total avail-
able floor area is about 164,000 square feet. The ground plan
is a hollow square, the extreme dimensions of which are 230 feet
along the front, and 200 feet along the sides. The center court
contains the lecture amphitheatre, which seats 390. The side
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wings of the building contain the general student laboratories,
while the center portions of both old and new structures are
occupied by offices, class and seminar rooms, library, museums,
supply rooms, and graduate research laboratories. The main
store room is in the basement under the lecture room. In this
building are located also the offices and laboratories of the State
Water Survey and the department of bacteriology.
The Botany Annex (erected 1914) is a greenhouse laboratory
covering 5,000 square feet, divided into compartments that are
severally provided with devices for controlling humidity and
temperature within close limits for exact experimentation in the
fields of plant physiology and pathology. To this laboratory is
attached a reconstructed two-story dwelling, giving working and
dass rooms for use in connection with the experiments conducted
under glass.
Pharmacy Buildings. — In December, 1915, the University
purchased for the School the property located at the comer of
Wood and Floumoy Streets and comprising eight city lots with
two large brick buildings, connected by a fireproof central stair-
way tower. The new quarters were occupied in June, 1916.
The Ceramic Engineering Building (erected 1915-16) is a
three-story structure, 188 by 65 feet, of fireproof construction,
built of texture brick and polychrome terra cotta. The front of
the building is decorated with colored tile panels. The roof is of
Spanish tile, and the floor of the halls and the corridors of clay
tile. The structure is intended to present modem achievement
in the use of ceramic structural materials. The third floor is
occupied by the State Geological Survey and about one-third of
the first floor by the department of applied mechanics. The main
portion of the building is utilized by the recitation rooms, labora-
tories, and offices of the department of ceramic engineering.
The Vivarium (erected 1915-16) occupies the block south
of the Illinois Traction System tracks, between Wright and
Sixth Streets, the main facade of the building being toward
Healy Street. The scheme involves a main building containing
eight laboratories, one office, and store rooms, with supplemen-
tary greenhouses at each end, and a head house serving two
greenhouses together with two screened houses. The main build-
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ing is a brick structure, two stories high, connected to the head
house by a one story passage from the main corridor. The build-
ing is occupied by the departments of zoology and entomology.
The Genetics Building (erected 1915-16) is a one-story brick
structure (located on Farm Lane and Mathews Avenue) housing
the laboratories, offices and animal rooms of the genetics de-
partment of the Agricultural College. The work carried on
in this building is done principally by graduate students.
The Cattle Feeding Plant (erected 1917) is of brick and
wood construction, located on the axis of Fourth Street, south
of the "Farm Lane." The lower part is a fireproof structure,
300 feet long, open to the south. The feeding lots are paved
with brick and extend out some 30 feet from the building line.
The plant is used as a storage place for feed for the animal
husbandry department, and the upper stories are constructed
as an elevator with large grain bins, where several tons of grain
can be elevated, preparatory to grinding, shipping, or feeding.
In connection with the plant is a com crib of the capacity of
12,000 bushels. The four silos to the north are 16 by 70 feet
and open into the feed room of the plant. They are of three
different materials: tile, concrete, and brick.
The President's House (acquired in 1917) is located at 1103
West Nevada Street, Urbana. It is a two-story stucco building
in the modem English style. It contains the usual living and
service rooms of a ten-room house, and is featured by a large
living-porch opening into an old fashioned trellis-walled garden.
The Women's Residence Hall (erected 1917) is located on
Nevada Street north of and adjacent to the new athletic field
for women.
It is a three-story fireproof building of colonial design, with
a total frontage of 167 feet and two wings running back 101
feet. It will accommodate 98 girls. There are both double
and single rooms, a suite for the matron, an emergency hospital,
and rooms for servants.
The basement contains the kitchen and two large dining
rooms. There are also locker and shower accommodations in
the basement for non-resident girls who use the adjacent ath-
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In the center of the first floor there is a large living room
with adjoining parlors. The wings on each side of the first fioor
are at a higher line and are occupied by student rooms. There
is a large sleeping porch at the south end of each wing on each
fioor.
The ground plan is a U, with the opening toward the south.
In the enclosure there is a sunken garden.
The Education Building, finished in 1919, is located on the
block bounded by Mathews, Springfield, and Goodwin Avenues
and Stoughton Street, in Urbana. The portion first erected of
the group is 180 feet long and 56 feet wide, without the bays,
and will front on Mathews Avenue. It is three stories high
above grade and of fireproof construction. The exterior is of
Bedford limestone of collegiate (Gothic design.
The building is intended to perform the functions of a model
high school building for 200 pupils. The plans provide for five
standard dass rooms, rooms for manual training and for com-
mercial branches and chemistry, physics and other science
laboratories. There are also two small lecture rooms, thirteen
recitation rooms, a library, several conference rooms and the
faculty offices.
The east member of the group will be of the same size and
shape as the member recently constructed. The center struc-
ture will measure 125 feet from east to west and 85 feet from
north to south and will be connected with the east and west
members by towers.
The Tina Weedon Smith Memorial Music Building (com-
pleted 1920) is of fireproof construction, with the public part
of the interior richly detailed in the style of the Italian
Renaissance. The entrance vestibule and foyer fon^ a part of
the corridor system, permitting entrances and exits on three
sides of the Becital Hall, which has a seating capacity of six
hundred and fifty persons on the main fioor, and four hun-
dred and fifty in the balcony. This room is designed acoustically
so as to have a period of reverberation of 1.75 seconds when
fully occupied. Provision has also been made for reducing the
period of reverberation when there is no audience. On the
second floor is the balcony with its foyer and a memorial room.
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housing the portraits of Captain Thomas J. Smith of Champaign,
whose generous donation to the building fund made so beauti-
ful a building possible, and his wife, to whom the building is
dedicated.
The working quarters for the School of Music comprise on
the first floor a suite for the Director, seven studios, and two
class rooms, and on the second floor eleven studios and a large
library. In the attic, the balcony exits open directly into the
stair halls on either side, and there are in addition, forty-nine
practise rooms and a lecture room seating about one hundred.
The estimated cost of the building is $450,000.
The Artillery Bams were constructed in 1919-20 to provide
for horses sent to the University by the Federal Government
in connection with the instruction in Military Science. A special
State appropriation of $25,000 was made in 1919 to construct
these bams.
Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment
In the two tables which follow, a statement is presented
of the value of the furniture and flxtures, and of the depart-
mental equipment owned by the University in 1904 and in 1917.
INVENTORY OF FUBNITUBE AND FIXTUBES AT JUNE 80, 1904
AND AT JUNE 30, 1918
»1904 «1918
Liberal Arts and Sciences Group $27,022.95 $ 99,882.21
Engineering Group 15,028.65 68,503.96
Agricultural Group 77.80 48,971.27
Law Bmlding 2,785.65 9,790.59
Commerce Building 9,241.26
General and MisceUaneous 24,032.10 55,587.90
Administration 15,569.97
Medical and Dental Buildings 8,181.87 27,452.30
Pharmacy Bmldings 4,213.53 3,441.99
Totals $81,342.55 $338,441.45
*Cf . Bept., Univ. of lU., 1906, p. 36.
«Cf. Comptroller's Beport, Univ. of HI., 1918, p. 97, ff.
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INVENTORY OP DEPABTMENTAL EQUIPMENT AT JUNE 30, 1904
AND AT JUNE 30, 1918
»1904 '1918
Administrative Offices $ 7,917.42
College of Liberal Arts and Scienees.
General Office $ 188.50 445.45
Art and Design 4,508.12 3,152.92
Astronomy 9,267.00 14,727.64
Bacteriology 6,403.97
Botany 6,746.80 22,064.89
Chemistry 15,030.28 55,931.26
Classics 417.08 1,432JJ9
Education 26.20 2,504.93
English 30.00 2,034.42
Entomology 8,367.02
Geology 20,597.42 19,157.74
Germanic Languages 14.00 869.43
History 97.90 1,184.38
Mathematics 332.33 3,100.98
Philosophy 107.98
Physiology 4,764.98 3,309JJ6
Political Science 46.75 20.00
Psychology 1,350.78 10,812.23
Bomance Languages 12.00 419.85
Sociology 747.91
Zoology 6,479.45 21,558.12
Classical Museum 2,839.37 11,143.20
Museum of European Culture 11,132.56
Museum of Natural History 10,000.00 10,429.95
Oriental Museum 3,185.00
Totals, Liberal Arts and Sciences $ 82,748.96 $ 214,243.98
College of Agriculture and Agricultural Ex-
periment Station 60,425.37 291,948.69
College of EngineeYing and Engineering Ex-
periment Station
General Office 1,724.94 2,434.93
Architecture •. 5,558.18 8,003.82
Ceramic Engineering 18,580.49
Civil Engineering 8,110.00 21,941.20
Electrical Engineering 17,959.03 68,022.99
General Engineering Drawing 1,082.19
Mechanical Engineering 31,358.72 75,318.70
*Cf . Bept., Univ. of lU., 1904, p. 35
*Cf. Comptroller's Report, Univ. of HL, 1918, p. 98
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Minixig Engineering 25^07^8
Municipal and Sanitary Engineering and
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. . . 9,902.60 55,087.60
Physics 19,777.55 80,531.23
Bailway Engineering 69,072.31
Totals, Engineering $ 94,391.02 $ 425,383.44
Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry 17,956.24 141,039.94
School of Pharmacy 8,182.60 13,821.11
College of Commerce and Business Adminis-
tration •153.42 4,241.03
College of Law 222.75
School of Library Science 250.00 569.40
School of Music 2,568.30 4,525.67
Graduate School 576.24
Academy 776J51
Illinois Historical Survey 580.95
General Departments
Library 103,970.47 659,225.31
Physical Education for Men 2,250.25 ^55.09
Physical Education for W(mien 558.95 2,022.14
Military 23,640.62 ^14,282.01
MiUtary Band 439.50 10,097.43
Health Service 846.44
Other Departments 63.00 25,585.44
Totals, General Departments $130,922.79 $ 716,213.86
Physical Plant (Urbana) 88,741.95 159,237.82
Totals fob Univbbsitt $487,117.16 "$1,972,554.88
Although the distinction between equipment, on one hand,
and furniture and fixtures, on the other was made less exactly
in 1904 than in 1918, the comparison indicated* in the foregoing
tables represents with reasonable accuracy the increase in the
value of these items during the last fourteen years.
For the University as a whole the value of furniture and
fixtures rose from $81,342.55 in 1904 to $338,441.45 in 1918— a
gain of $257,098.90 or over 310 per cent. Of the Colleges, Agri-
culture shows the most remarkable increase, having furniture
"Department of Economics only
^nclades equipment loaned by U. S. Government valued at |10,-
112.65.
*The total on June 30, 1919, was $2,402,108.64
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and fixtures valued at $48,971.27 in 1918 as against only $77.80
in 1904.
The total value of departmental equipment, exclusive of de-
partmental furniture and fixtures, was $487,117.16 in 1904,
and $1,972,554.88 in 1918. This indicates a gain of $1,485,437.72
or nearly 305 per cent for the period. Of the various divisions
of the University, the College of Agriculture, the Colleges of
Medicine and Dentistry, the Library, the Military Band; the
department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Col-
lege of Engineering, and the departments of Education, English,
Qermanic Languages, History, Mathematics, Psychology and
Romance Languages, of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
all show an increase considerably above the general average for
the University. Of the divisions for which no departmental
equipment was reported in 1904, the College of Commerce and
Business Administration; the departments of Ceramic, Mining
and Railway Engineering ; and the departments of Bacteriology,
Entomology and Sociology of the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, are shown to have acquired the largest amount of equip-
ment during the period.
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CHAPTER IV
LffiRABIES AND MUSEUMS
The importance to a university of adequate library and
museum facilities can scarcely be overestimated. Unless a uni-
versity is willing to cut loose from the past with its accumulated
knowledge, and from the outside world of the present day with
its incredibly rapid progress in the fields of science and in-
dustry, means must be provided for making a knowledge of the
activities of other men readily accessible to the investigator, be
he student or professor.
Apparently in the early years of the University the necessity
of providing for the ordinary maintenance of the various de-
partments, and later, for additional land and buildings urgently
needed, as well, seemed to the trustees to preclude the possi-
bility of making material annual additions to the University
library or museums. As a result the University of Illinois was
soon outstript in this respect by its sister institutions of learn-
ing, and it is only by following a policy within recent years of
making annual appropriations of considerable size for these pur-
poses, that the University is beginning to make a respectable
showing in this essential form of equipment of an institution
of learning.
"Among all the institutes or departments of a university,
none is of more fundamental necessity than the university
library. No scientific work can be done nowadays of any real
value, aside from those extraordinary cases of genius which oc-
cur now and then in human history and which seem to be inde-
pendent of all conditions and exceptions to all rules, without the
aid of an adequate library.
**The library, of course, contains the result of the experi-
ence of the human race up to the present time. It is of value
from various points of view. First of all, it saves time, inas-
much as men need not undertake to do again scientific work which
has already been done. It provides the assistance which a scien-
tific man needs by putting at his disposition the results of all
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previous work which bears upon his immediate problem, and
without which he could not undertake to solve it. It acts further
as a great stimulus to scientific work on the part of the mem-
bers of an instructional staff, and on the part of the student
body of the University. So important is this influence that it
has been said that a great library will under favorable condi-
tions become a great university. Books are not dead. They are
alive to the man who comes in contact with them and knows
how to use them. They are the sources of inspiration and power,
and not merely of knowledge.
''It is safe to say that the University of Illinois Library
is most inadequate for the purposes which a university library
ought to serve. No man in our faculty can today carry on a
scientific investigation in any line without running up very soon
against an absolutely impenetrable stone wall, because he has
not access to the entire experience of the race and he is therefore
groping blindly in whatever he is attempting to do ; duplicating
work which other men have done ; attempting to do things which
other men have demonstrated to be impossible; experimenting
without the advantage of the experience of the men who have
gone before him.
"The people of this State, whether for weal or woe, located
the University of Illinois in a village 125 miles from any im-
portant collection of books. Speaking generally, therefore, the
library which is to quicken and stimulate and fructify scholar-
ship and investigation at the University of Illinois must be a
library located upon the campus of the University.
''We need, therefore, a much larger collection of books, other
things being equal, than does the University of Chicago, or Har-
vard, or Yale, or Columbia, or Pennsylvania, all of which insti-
tutions are located within easy reach of collections which in the
aggregate are two or three or four times their own collections.
"The following list gives the number of volumes in twelve
libraries of the universities of this country :
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Name
Nomber of
▼olumes in
Ubnuy.
Nomber of yolumea
in other available
libraries in the
neighborhood.
Cost
of librarj
Building.
1 Harvard
882,104
600,000
450,000
395,209
384,000
357,411
334,400
372,300
270,998
210,000
191,000
188,000
1,830,000
109,000
3,230,000
30,000
82,000
1,393,000
1,359,000
5,000
8,000
37,000
338,000
34,000
2 Tale
$ 550,000.00
1,100,000.00
260,000.00
3 Ck>lambia
4 Cornell
6 Wisconsin
6 Chicago
610,000.00
(f)l/)00,000.00
7 Pennajlyania
8 Princeton
9 Michigan
800,000.00
10 California
11 Brown
12 T1Htio«
160,000.00
''Harvard University has access to additional collections
amounting to more than two millions of volumes. The New York
collections of four millions of volumes are accessible to Yale
within a two hours' ride. Pennsylvania has, of course, Johns
Hopkins and Washington on one side, Princeton and New York
on the other, within easy reach: while Princeton has Philadel-
phia on one hand and New York on the other.
''It will be seen that the collections of the University of
Illinois are very far inferior to those of Harvard and Yale and
Columbia and Chicago, although all these institutions are located
in the midst of a very hotbed, so to speak, of other library col-
lections. It will also be seen that the University of Illinois
is inferior in actual number of books, to Cornell and Michigan
and Wisconsin, though Michigan does not have an agricultural
school in connection with it, and therefore does not need the
great segment of a university library represented by the agri-
cultural literature of the world.
"It is plain that the University of Illinois cannot hope to
take its place among the great institutions of the world as a
real center of learning and investigation until it has much
larger library facilities.
"The University should look forward to the accumulation
of a collection of at least a million of books as rapidly as is at
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all possible and at all consistent with due regard for other in-
terests. Roughly speaking, it wiU take about $1,000,000.00 to
house a million books ; and either in the form of a new library
building which might be put up in four $250,000.00 sections,
or in the form of an addition to and an enlargement of the
present library building, at a somewhat similar expense, we must
make provision for such collection.
''Speaking from an experience of eight years as your execu-
tive officer, I think I may say that I have had more people whom
I have approached to consider positions at the University of
Illinois decline the proposition because of the lack of library
facilities than for any other reason; even more than because
of the inadequate salaries which we offer for many of our posi-
tions as compared with the salaries which other institutions offer
for similar positions.
''I have asked the University librarian, in consultation with
the Senate committee on the library, to prepare a statement
showing the maximum sum of money which year in and year
out can wisely be devoted by the University of Illinois to the
purchase of books and the cataloging of the same. In view of
this fundamental need of all departments alike, I think the
trustees should accept this figure, after it has been properly
checked up and tested, as the sum which the University ought
to ask for in the form of a specific appropriation for the pur-
chase of books in the permanent budget of the University, until
our collection numbers at least one million volumes.
' ' No one who has not actually attempted to answer the numer-
ous questions arising in every library and seminary room, as
to what is known about this, that or the other subject, can have
any conception of how inadequate our facilities are. To give
a slight instance of the imperative need of this material on the
one hand and the absolute inability of the University to pro-
vide it on the other, I may say that the Gtovemor of the State
telegraphed to me one day saying that a bill had been passed
by the Legislature and submitted to him for approval or for
veto, providing that the milk which was shipped into cities of
a certain size in this State should be limited to that which was
obtained from tuberculin tested cows. He desired to know first
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what similar laws existed in this and other states and this and
other countries. He desired to know further what the experi-
ence had been where similar attempts had been made. I found
on inquiry that our University Library could not answer any
of these questions involved in these simple and yet fundamental
inquiries. There was no collection of the laws relating to the
regulation of the milk industry either in this country or abroad.
There was no way of finding out where this kind of experiment
had been tried in this country or abroad, or how it had worked
out.
''One of the fundamental distinctions between our American
universities as a whole and European universities, is to be found
in this matter of library facilities, and I believe that one of the
reasons why American scholarship has limped along at such
a distance behind European scholarship is to be found in the
lack of such inspiration and the lack of such assistance as are
afforded by great collections of books, which contain in them-
selves the recorded experience of the human race.*'^
Proqress from 1904 to 1918
That the efforts made during the last decade or more to
increase the library facilities of the University have resulted
in substantial additions to the number of volumes owned, is
indicated by the fact that whereas there were but 66,239 books
on the shelves of the Library in 1904, the number had risen by
June 30, 1918, to 387,999 volumes,^— an increase of over 485
per cent for the fourteen year period. A very complete account
of the development of the Library during this period is given
in the following statement by Mr. P. K. W. Drury, Assistant
Librarian of the University:'
A ''third of a million volumes" sounds like a considerable
number of items. They take considerable shelf room — seven
^A memorandum on the needs of the Library presented to the Board
of Tnistees by the President of the University at a meeting held June 7,
1912.— Eept, Univ. of HL, 1912, p. 595
1>oe8 not include the 22,576 volumes in the libraries of the Chicago
Departments.
*A revision by Mr. Drury, for this report, of an article contributed
by him to the Alumni Quarterly in April, 1915.
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miles or so— and 600,000 cards to index them. But when the
wide range of subjects is considered and the varied lines of in-
struction and research are divided into this collection, each de-
partment seems to have only begun to collect the material which
it needs. The library dwarfs by reason of the vastness of its
field.
All of agriculture, all of engineering, all of science and use-
ful arts (except medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, which have
a separate library of 22,576 volumes in Chicago), all of the
literature and the humanities, all human knowledge in fact, save
theology, must be represented in this library.
This is a broad field to cover. Specialization and concentra-
tion in thirty-five or fifty subjects makes a large collection
necessary. Nor will it do to compare Illinois with institutions
which have no colleges of agriculture or engineering.
Neither has Illinois a group of large libraries close at hand
upon whose resources the investigator may draw, as is the case
with Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Pennsylvania and others in
or near large cities. Because of this wide range of interests
and its isolation, the 387,999 volumes now at Illinois do not com-
pare favorably with the equipment of other institutions nor
with that needed for efficient instruction and research such as
is expected of an institution offering much graduate work.
The Library was established at the very beginning of the
institution. In 1867 the trustees bought 644 volumes with $1000
appropriated for that purpose, and so important did this pur-
chase seem that Regent Gregory made personal selection of them.
But the Library's marked growth has been only during the last
seventeen years. Until 1897 no amount appropriated for books
was higher than $1500 per annum. With the new building then
erected the annual appropriation was made $10,000 and this
has been enlarged year by year through $20,000 and $25,000
appropriations until the serious and determined effort of the
administration to make this an important library has consider-
ably increased that amount. The result has been a rapid in-
crease in the size of the Library. Numbering 70,000 volumes
in 1904, in 1918 this has been increased fivefold; to be exact,
to 387,999 volumes on June 30, 1918. The sums actually ex-
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pended for books daring the last six years liave been approzi«>
mately as follows:
1912-13 $46,000 191516 $76,000
1913-14 96,000 1916-17 85,000
1914-15 58,000 1917-18 69,000
An important phase of this increase is not alone in the ac-
quisition of books by purchase, but also in the development of
a department of exchanges and gifts. A special assistant was
appointed in 1907 to arrange for exchanges with learned societies
and other institutions. The marked result was to increase the
number of exchange items received from 41 in 1907 to 405 in
1908 after one year of work; to 1,478 in 1914, and to 2,441 in
1915. But, owing to the war, the number of volumes added by
exchange fell to 767 in 1916, 311 in 1918, and an important
item here has been the exchange of doctor's dissertations, which
in the case of (German universities has brought great returns.
Gifts likewise have increased through the systematic activity
by the same department from 1500 in 1907 to 5300 in 1914. In
1917-18 the number was 3,322.
Illinois has had no accumulation of past ages, few gifts of
worthless or undesirable material, and, of course, has bought
only the books that have been absolutely needed. Consequently
its stock is alive and up to date; often indeed the historical
aspects of a subject have been neglected while its technical and
practical sides have been developed. Only time and continued
active purchase can remedy such defects.
The manner of the rather uneven growth of the Library can
be easily understood when it is known that each department
has had the selection of the books in its own subject Limited
funds have caused limited purchasing, and the books bought
have been along the line of the study and research pursued
by each department. Unequal development has resulted, but
Illinois has a practical working library bought with the needs
of the departments in mind.
Since the Graduate School was reorganized in 1906, a special
effort has been made to develop certain fields for broad research,
and appropriate library purchases have been encouraged by the
administration. As a consequence of the use of Graduate School
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funds, a secondary method of development has been used which
supplements the departmental method. Special appropriations
have been made for purchases which cut across the main stream.
Thus an appropriation for strengthening the library collection
of biographies was supplementary to all departmental growth.
With the building of Lincoln Hall in 1909, a new feature
was developed which has given a marked impetus to the growth
of special departments and subjects: the seminar and depart-
ment library and librarian. In this building are housed six col-
lections, selected from the general library, each in charge of a
librarian trained in the special subject. At present these branch
libraries contain deposits as follows: Education, philosophy
and psychology, 15,500 volumes; dassics, 23,000 volumes;
modem languages, 27,000 volumes; English, 16,400 volumes;
history and political science, 20,000 volumes; economics and
sociology, 24,000 volumes. As might be expected, these depart-
mental libraries, and the others on the campus, like architecture,
chemistry and so on, which have a librarian in charge who is
also a trained bibliographer, have been making noticeable
progress in building up collections and in starting to round out
the libraries in these subjects.
The architectural library reflects the personality of Professor
N. C. Ricker, after whom it was formally named in January,
1917. Thruout the years by careful selection and buying, he
has built up a fine working library of 4700 volumes, strong
in general architecture and construction, as might be expected
from the man, but well developed also in history, decoration and
ornament, and painting and sculpture. Mathematics has sim-
ilarly been developed by successive members of the faculty, till
the 5610 volumes cover all the main journals and a good pro-
portion of the literature. Law has its separate library, with
22,000 volumes. Here will be found the reports of last resort
of all the states, statutes and session laws of all the states, all
reports of the appellate courts, all the published case law of the
United States, all the Canadian reports except Quebec and prac-
tically complete sets of the English and Irish reports. There
is also a good collection of legal treatises, digests and citations.
Chemistry, with 10,500 volumes of standard works and sets
of periodicals, has been developed in all fields — organic and in-
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organic, analytical, physical, industrial and physiological. The
departments of botany, geology and zoology have combined with
the State Laboratory of Natural History to form one central li-
brary in these subjects. The State Laboratory is especially strong
in entomology, with much attention given to fresh water animals
and oligochaetes. In this Zoology has also aided, though devoting
itself mainly to the purchasing of the sets and journals which are
so necessary. G^logy has developed a good collection of local
paleontology. Botany has featured the morphologic, pathologic
and physiologic sides, rather to the neglect of systematic botany,
which has however received attention since the coming of Pro-
fessor William Trelease in 1913, over $3,000 having been spent
in this field. Physics, and railway and mining engineering, have
selected libraries of 5,000 and 4,000 volumes, respectively.
Library science, with 3,000 volumes, strengthened in 1905 with
the Dziatzko* library of 500 items in library economy and
paleography, features also its collection of library reports and
bulletins.
In 1915 a special reading room for the College of Agri-
culture, with a librarian in charge, was opened, and here have
been centered the varied interests of that college, making it more
than a reading room — in fact a real departmental library, with
9,000 volumes.
In 1916 a similar reading room was opened for the College
of Engineering, and it is rapidly developing into a departmental
library for the departments which have no special seminar col-
lection. There are now 5,000 volumes.
The erection of the Commerce Building in 1912 resulted in
the establishment of a special reading room in that building for
students in the College of Commerce and Business Administra-
tion, in addition to the departmental libraries of Economics and
Political Science located in Lincoln Hall, The Commerce read-
ing room contains at the present time about 2,000 volumes.
Just as these branch libraries have divided into special groups,
so the books ordered have been selected by the various depart-
ments of instruction. Being thus roughly classified by subject,
it has been possible in placing the orders to select dealers who
*Karl Dziatzko, librarian of Gdttingen University
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have specialized in certain subjects, such as mathematics, natural
science, philosophy, etc. Such special dealers have helped
greatly in securing out-of-print books which are so essential in
rounding out the literature of a subject. Of course, books have
been bought in every sort of way as best they might be secured :
through book stores, library agents, second-hand dealers, direct
with publishers, and so on. Liarge selections have been made
from catalogs of second-hand books, and frequently a successful
long-distance bid at a New York or Boston auction will add a
prize to the library.
The book trade has been interrupted during the war, in com-
mon with all other business, but it is only with (Germany and
Austria that there has been anything more serious than mere
delay. For a time it was possible to obtain books and periodicals
from these countries by mail, after freight and express ship-
ments had been stopped. But all imports from (Germany and
its allies have ceased since May, 1916. Numerous periodicals
in all countries, however, have kept up regular publication but
often in a greatly reduced size for each issue. The English
trade has suffered the least and shipments both by freight and
mail have been about normaL
An outstanding feature of the library as a whole is its collec-
tion of serials, covering not only periodicals, but annuals and
reports. In 1911 a list of these was printed which ran to over
7,000 titles. This material is the result of systematic effort cov-
ering a period of ten years made in the sound belief that no im-
portant research in a subject can be carried on without access
to its development as recorded in the accepted means of com-
munication among scholars. It was in 1903 that the first money
was definitely assigned for the purchase of ''sets," and these
form a very significant part of the Library.
The general Library has also featured its reference and
bibliographical work, with the result of maintaining a working
collection of the important tools in these two allied lines.
The purchase of the Dittenberger^ library in 1907 and the
Vahlen^ library in 1913, together with 13,250 dissertations
•Wilhelm Dittenberger, professor of classical philology in Halle Uni-
versity
•Johannes Vahlen, professor in Berlin University
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bought in 1914, has made the Classics library one of the best
working classical libraries in the Middle West. It is especially
strong in epigraphy, history and grammar, in editions of Greek
and Latin authors, and in sets of classical journals.
The Economics library has been built up along the lines of
economics theory, history, labor, socialism, money and banking,
public finance, commerce, transportation and insurance. Its
strength is shown in that it was selected as one of fourteen
libraries to be represented in a check list on the economics of
railway transportation. Municipal documents have been col-
lected with much energy and care. They comprise charters,
council proceedings, ordinances and reports of all important
cities in the United States and in foreign countries, as well as
city journals, and the publications of municipal leagues and
civic dubs. The items run to over 3,000 titles.
In addition to this, the Political Science Department has
developed a collection of the proceedings of constitutional con-
ventions which is of more than ordinary importance. The library
also has important collections of the United States government
documents, the British ''blue books, 'V the Q^rman Reichstag
proceedings, the Spanish parliamentary papers and other official
documents.
A foundation of the development of an educational library
was laid when the Aron'' library, containing 5,000 volumes and
10,000 pamphlets, was purchased in 1913. Features of this col-
lection are the original and early editions of Comenius, and
the fundamental treatises of Pestalozzi and Froebel.
German language and literature was strengthened in 1908
by the gift of the Karsten® library and in 1909 by the purchase
of the Heyne^ library; while the romance languages were
bolstered in 1912 by the purchase of the Grober^<> library. On
the basis of these collections there is opportunity for work and
study in philology and linguistics, which has been further
enriched by the purchase of several hundred dictionaries of all
languages, and special treatises.
^Dr. B. Aron, professor in Berlin Uniyersity
"Gustav E. Karsten, professor in the Univ. of lU.
'Mortiz Heyne, professor in €k>ttingen Uniyersity
^ustay Grdber, professor in Strassburg Uniyersity
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A few representative groups in the Modem Liangaages are
the nineteenth century German authors, the mystics typified by
Jakob Boehme, and the medieval French epic. Nevertheless,
only a beginning has been made in supplying the works in the
airman and French literatures themselves, while in the collec-
tion of the allied languages of Spanish, Italian and Scandinavian
the first move was authorized but a few years ago.
English literature covers a wide field, from the old English
authors to those of the twentieth century. Concentration has
been possible on the seventeenth and eighteenth century periodi-
cals of which there are the original issues of the Spectator^
the Tatter and the London Gazette from 1665 to 1700; on
English fiction prior to Sir Walter Scott-; on Elizabethan and
post-restoration drama; and on folk-lore.
History also has an extensive field with just a few periods
represented to a reasonable degree, such as Prussian history.
The systematic buying of serials has given this library a grati-
fying proportion of the 2,000 in European history mentioned in
the Richardson check list issued by the American historical asso-
ciation. The possession of such sets as the Monumenta Ger-
maniae Historica and the publications of the Bussian and French
historical societies indicates some of the source material in con-
tinental history.
For English and medieval history, sources have also been
sought, such as the parliamentary journals and debates, the
papers or ''blue books" already mentioned, the various "Rolls
series/' and the many publishing societies, as the Camden, the
Selden, the Surtees.
American history has been developed naturally for the West
and Illinois, until there is now a representative collection of early
western travel and rare eighteenth century items, including
copies of manuscripts and original maps. Colonial history also
has not been neglected. The purchase of the library of H. A.
Rattermann of Cincinnati in 1915 gave to the Library an im-
portant collection on the German-Americans of North and South
America and on the influence of German culture in the New
World.
Recent purchases in Latin American history have secured
many standard legislative sets, and this large and important
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fidd in history and economics is being gleaned by systematic
buying. Professor W. S. Robertson returned in the summer
of 1917 from a year's tour of the South American republics,
where he purchased for the Library sets and books to a value
of $5,000. In addition he effected many important exchanges.
In agricultural literature, the Library has made a good start
in collecting serials and reports, as well as in featuring the
publications of the agricultural experiment stations, and the
herd, flock and stud registers of pedigreed stock. With the
opening of an agricultural reading room in 1913 a systematic
growth may be expected in all these subjects. So far especial
attention has been given to the study of soils, animal nutrition,
landscape gardening and horticulture.
Music and art are represented by works on the technique of
the subjects — such books as would help in the actual instruc-
tion. At the present time a library of organ music is being
collected.
Mention should be made also of the collection of a repre-
sentative file of newspapers. Back files such as the London
Times, 1833 to date, and the New York Tribune from the begin-
ning, are only part of a series starting with the first newspapers
and forming a chronological conspectus which presents a copy
of a newspaper for each year since that early date, save only
a few years in the early eighteenth century.
The collection of the publications of other colleges and uni-
versities is also very representative and of great use and interest.
Incunabula are very sparsely represented, and their presence
being due more to accident in being found in the libraries bought
than to any intent in purchasing them. Maps are also receiv-
ing attention after long neglect, and with special facilities for
storing them, the library desires to obtain large numbers. Of
interest in the present collection are the maps showing the ex-
plorations in the great northwest territory in the eighteenth
century.
Various outside agencies are helping the library to develop.
The Order of B'nai B'rith has contributed money for the pur-
chase of books of Jewish interest. The Irish and Celtic societies
are interesting themselves in the study of Irish. The School
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of Military Aeronautics located here in 1917 has caused a notice-
able purchase of books of flying and aircraft. Books on all
phases of the World War have been gathered from all sources.
The recent appointment of a professor of Oriental languages,
literatures and archeology has resulted in a notable increase
of books on these special subjects, while for the past two years
the literature of Italy has been developed thru the appointment
of a head of the Department of Romance Languages whose chief
work has been in the field of Italian language and literature.
Prom all this it is evident that there has been built a story
or two of a well rounded scholarly library structure. The foun-
dation has been laid upon which such a library can be erected.
Even a half million volumes will not give a necessary equipment.
A university is not rated as such by the size and number
of its buildings, nor by the charter-given privilege of granting
advanced degrees, nor by the range of its instruction, be it from
Babylonian inscriptions to the virus of smallpox. A university
is judged by the completeness of its equipment of laboratory,
library and learned men.
The field of absolute knowledge may well fall within the
range of the college. The university accepts this and works
from known facts to unknown facts ; until these new facts are
either justified or denied by investigation and research.
The investigator must first of all plow his way through the
present knowledge of his special subject, must orientate him-
self, and noting its tends and tendencies, must progress to the
end he aims at. His tools for all this must be in the library,
as it is through books, journals, digests, reports, bulletins, etc.,
that he picks his way; and woe to him who neglects to learn
what others may have done before him. To a large university,
therefore, a large library is something absolutely indispensable.
The collection at the University of Illinois has been and still
is inadequate; only in a few lines does it approximate more
than a primal working group of books. Hence the growth must
be rapid, more so than it is now, if the University of Illinois
is ever to come abreast in library resources with other institu-
tions of its class."
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The Quine Libraby of the College of Mediginb^^
The nudeus of the Qoine Library of the College of Medi-
cine was a collection of books given to the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons of Chicago by Mrs. A. Beeve Jackson in
1892 after the death of Dr. Jackson, the first president of the
College.
Although nnimportant in itself, this gift interested Dr. Qnine
in libraries as a means of promoting medical education and
prompted him to donate a thousand volumes for the establish-
ment of a students' library at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons. Dtiring the years when this library was trying to
prove its usefulness and justify its right for support, Dr. Quine
was its loyal friend, and made an annual donation of three
hundred dollars toward its maintenance.
For some time Dr. Bayard Holmes, who had made a study
of library methods, performed the duties of librarian, but in
1895 a regular librarian was employed to classify and organize
the library, and a special room was set apart for library pur-
poses.
The library has been the recipient of many donations ranging
from single pamphlets to over two thousand volumes. This large
gift consisted of bound journals and formed the major part
of the collection known as the ** Columbus Memorial Library. '*
With the moving of the **Senn Collection '* to the Crerar Library
there was no longer need for another medical library in the
"Loop District" of Chicago, and the Columbus Memorial Collec-
tion was added to the Quine Library.
By the beginning of 1902, 5,000 volumes had been accumu-
lated, a large proportion of the books having been given by mem-
bers of the faculty, or secured by exchange with other libraries.
At the beginning of 1910, the library had grown to 10,000
volumes. The growth from that time is represented by the fol-
lowing statistics:
During 1910-11 the library inereaaed to 10,375 Tolames.
" 191M2 " " *' '* 10,876 *'
'* 1912-13 *' " *' " 11,161 *'
""A special statement prepared by WiUiam H. Browne, Secretary of
tbe College of Medicine.
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During 1913-14 the library increased to 11,701 volumes
" 1914-16 *' " " " 14,200 "
'* 1916-16 " '* " " 16,901 "
'* 1916-17 *' '* '* '* 17,668 *'
" 1917-18 *' '* " '' 18,799 "
The periodical subscription list now numbers some two hun-
dred and fifty English, German, French and Italian journals
of medicine, dentistry and the allied sciences.
A Dental Department has been added to the library and a
small but well selected collection of dental books and journals
has been secured. Additions are constantly being made and a
valuable working collection of dental books is rapidly being
formed.
In January, 1914, a library committee, consisting of Dr.
Dreyer, Dr. D. J. Davis, Dr. A. C. Eydeshymer, Dr. C. A. Wood
and Dr. Coolidge, was appointed. Since the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons became the College of Medicine of the Uni-
versity of Illinois the library has grown very rapidly, much in
the number of volumes and more in scientific importance. The
aim of the library committee has been to complete the journal
files, but the task has been unusually difficult, owing to the war
conditions.
After considering the books needed by the students, the de-
partments conducting research work have been given first con-
sideration in the purchase of journal sets, monographs and text-
books.
The library, situated as it is in the heart of the medical center
of Chicago, has an opportunity to serve a large proportion of
the medical interest of Chicago, as well as the students and fac-
ulty of the college with which it is connected, and the hope is
that it may grow to meet this opportunity.
A New Library Buildino
The crowded condition of the Library Building in the year
1912 made it evident that it would be necessary to make prompt
provision for additional room, both to accommodate the increas-
ing number of volumes, and to render the facilities of the Library
fully available to students and faculty. As it was felt by the
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trustees that the erection of a building large enough to meet
the present needs of the University and the demands of the
immediate future was impossible at that time, a substantial addi-
tion was made in 1914 to the structure erected in 1897. ^^ But
as it was evident that only temporary relief would be afforded
by this measure, plans for a larger and adequate building were
given consideration at the same time, to be erected at the earliest
date that the resources of the University would permit. ^^ On
January 7, 1913, tentative plans were presented to the Board
by the supervising architect for a structure to be erected south
of the junction of Wright Street and Armory Avenue. The
plan then presented, but as subsequently modified in certain
respects, calls for a building having its north and south axis on
the center of Wright Street prolonged, and its east and
west axis coincident with the east and west axis of the
Armory, prolonged. It is proposed to erect the building in
sections, the later sections to be added as needed.^^ It has been
estimated that the erection of the first unit will necessitate an
expenditure of from $750,000 to $1,000,000.*'^ The first unit of
the Library Building was one of four structures which it was
the intention of the trustees to build from the special $2,000,000
appropriation asked of the Legislature in 1917 for the inaugura-
tion of a comprehensive building program. *• The decision of
the Governor and the Gteneral Assembly to curtail the erection
of all buildings by state institutions during the biennium 1917-19
will necessitate the postponement of the erection of the new
Library Building for at least two years.
To tide over the time until the new library building could
be erected the trustees decided to add to the present structure.
' ■ Museums
At the second meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Uni-
versity, held May 8, 1867, Regent Gregory, chairman of the
»Eept., Univ. of lU., 1914, pp. 191, 273, 704, 725, 727
"Bept., Univ. of HI., 1914, pp. 136, 148, 160, 259, 264, 674, 698
"Ibid, pp. 160, 725; 1916 pp. 299, 922, 933; Min. of Bd. of Trustees,
Univ. of HI., 1916-18, p. 100
"Bept., Univ. of lU., 1916, p. 934; Min. of Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of
m., 1916-18, p. 100
^•Min. of Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of lU., 1916-18, p. 262
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committee on faculty and course of study, made a detailed re-
port which was accepted by the trustees and ordered published
"as embodying the aims and designs of the University." In
this report the following paragraph appears :^^ .
'*The department of Fine Arts will require casts, photo-
graphs or engravings of the great masterpieces in art. These
may be obtained at reasonable rates, and original drawings,
paintings and sculptures will in due time be added. The health-
ful, refining and stimulating influence of such collections on the
minds of the young must be seen to be properly appreciated. ' '
The limited funds of the University were evidently thought
by the Board insufficient to permit of an appropriation for ob-
jects of art, and an art collection when finally started came as
a result of a campaign instituted by Regent Gregory among the
citizens of Urbana and Champaign. In the annual meeting in
the spring of 1874 Dr. Gregory announced that about $2,000
had been subscribed for this purpose, and requested that the
large hall above the library (then in University Hall) be set
apart for the art coUection.^®
In December of the same year Dr. Gregory reported that
the proposed plan had been consunmiated and that the Univer-
sity was "now in possession of one of the best collections of
casts of celebrated statuary, and other sculptures, to be found
in this country."*^
The collection comprised also "a large number of fine en-
gravings, and a hundred photographs taken directly from the
original paintings in the great national galleries."
The Art Museum remained in University Hall until 1897,
and was then removed to the newly constructed Library Hall.*^
Eleven years later, when the growth of the Library and the
Library School necessitated the use of the entire building by
these interests, the art objects were again moved, this time to
various University buildings. Of the objects contained in the
oi'iginal collection nine heroic antique statues were placed in
the foyer of the Auditorium, three in University Hall and one
"Bept., Univ. of 111., 1878, p. 60
"Kept., Univ. of Dl., 1873, pp. 91-92
"Kept., Univ. of lU., 1876, p. 91
"Kept., Univ. of HL, 1898, p. 193
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in Lincoln Hall ; twenty reduced statues were placed in Univer-
sity Hall, one in Lincoln Hall and four in Engineering Hall;
thirty-three busts were placed in University Hall, sixty-six in
Lincoln Hall and one in Engineering Hall. The various bas
reliefs, vases, relief heads, medallions in plaster, engravings,
lithographs, photographs and paintings were similarly dis-
tributed. Upon the erection of a suitable building it is expected
that these objects will be again assembled for display as a single
collection.
Since 1877 biennial appropriations have been made by the
General Assembly for "cabinets" as follows:*^
STATE APPE0PBIATI0N8 FOB 1869-1911
CABINETS AND OOLLECTIONS
Biennium Amount
1877-79 $ 6,500.00
1879-81 1,000.00
1881-83 1,000.00
1883-86 2,000.00
1885-87 2/)00.00
1887-89 2,000.00
1889-91 1,000.00
1891-93 1,000.00
1896-97 2,000.00
1897-99 2,000.00
1899-1901 2,000.00
1901-03 2,000.00
1903-05 4,000.00
1906-07 4,000.00
1907-09 4,000.00
1909-11 4,000.00
1911-13 8,000.00
Total $48,500.00
These sums have been expended in building up not only the
Fine Arts Museum already described but also various depart-
mental museums and collections to be mentioned later. Among
the more important additions made to the fine arts collection
''Special Beport by ComptroUeT, Univ. of HI., on State Appropriations,
April 3, 1913, Schedule 211
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within the last ten years is a series of 81 German and Japanese
prints purchased from the St. Louis Exposition in 1905.^^
The most noteworthy change in the museum equipment of
the University during the past decade was the creation of two
new mxuseums in 1911 known respectively as the Museum of
Classical Archeology and Art and the Museum of European
Culture. These have been installed in rooms on the fourth floor
of Lincoln Hall.^ A description of these museums by their re-
spective curators follows.
The Museum op Natubaij Histort**
Previous to 1909, the collections of Natural History were
-contained in a large room in University Hall. This room was
poorly lighted and the collections were in constant danger of
destruction by fire. In 1909, the material was removed to the
fireproof hall in the new addition to the Natural History Build-
ing. Since the new hall has but two-thirds as much floor space
as the old room in University Hall, it has been necessary to
utilize a room on the upper floor of the Physics Building to care
for the surplus collections. A quantity of material not affected
by dampness has also been stored in a large room in the base-
ment of the Natural History Building.
In 1913, the University cooperating with the American
Museum of Natural History and the American Geographical So-
ciety, participated in the Crocker Land Expedition to Greenland
and adjacent parts of Arctic America. The collections brought
back by the expedition, including upwards of 800 specimens of
manmials, birds, mollusks and ethnological material, add very
materially to the value of the Museum exhibits.
Since the removal of the collections from the old hall, much
valuable material has been acquired. Among this material are
an excellent series of implements of the Indians of the New
England states, many carefully prepared specimens from the
Pacific coast and the Bermudas, collected by former students;
the Bamum collection of 2,000 birds eggs, especially rich in the
•Eegister, University of lUiiiois, 1916-17, p, 60
*Bept., Univ. of HI., 1912, p. 434
''By Frank CoUins Baker
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rarer species of the southwestern states; extensive collections
of mollusks from North and South America, including a very
complete collection of the river mussels (Unionidae) of the
United States ; a large collection of Pleistocene fossils from Illi-
nois; a large assortment of gems and precious stones; and a
collection of the more common minerals. The Museum collec-
tions now number upwards of 200,000 specimens.
During the curatorship of Professor Frank Smith the old
wooden cases were largely replaced by the modem bronze and
glass cases, so that a greatly improved appearance in the exhibi-
tion hall has been effected. The collections have also been cata-
loged, both numerically in book form and indexed by cards, and
it is possible for the first time in the history of the Museum
to know what is in the possession of this department.
The increase in the Museum collections and the demand for
their proper display made it evident that sooner or later it would
be necessary to appoint a trained museum man who could give
his entire time to the development and care of the Museum. In
January, 1918, this was done.
The Museum is now being developed along two quite dis-
tinct lines. First, the exhibit series which, being made distinc-
tively educational, include a synoptic collection of the animal
kingdom, embracing the living and the extinct groups arranged
in their natural orders and showing their relationships. This
is accomplished by the aid of models, diagrams, figures, speci-
mens and descriptive labels. A case illustrating different kinds
of variation in animal life is exhibited near this collection.
For the agricultural student or the practical farmer, a model
showing the twelve most injurious insects that infest the com
plant has been prepared. The group contains wax models of the
com plants with the insects in all stages of growth feeding upon
them.
For the interpretation of the out-of-doors (Ecology) a habitat
group has been made showing the life in and about an old de-
caying stump. The background is an enlarged, carefully colored
photograph, 40 by 60 inches, of the Brownfield Woods. The
plants and other life of such a place are shown.
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An economic collection illustrating the manufacture of pearl
and ivory buttons, the former from the pearl oyster, and the
latter from the ivory nut, has been presented to the Museum
by a large manufacturer. It shows the processes which are nec-
essary to produce these articles from the raw material.
The above collections and exhibits indicate the different
groupings into which the exhibit series naturally form them-
selves. These will be expanded and enlarged to include all sub-
jects that permit of display.
The second line of development is the research or study
series. It includes large series of specimens which are used
for research purposes and which form the basis for papers al-
ready published or for papers in preparation. This line of
development is of the highest value, since the accumulation of
type or otherwise authentic material, draws men to the Uni-
versity for its consultation, or brings requests for the loan of
critical material for comparison. At the present time an effort
is being made to accumulate as complete a collection as possible
of the Mollusca of North America, as well as material from the
Pleistocene deposits of America.
The time is evidently not far distant when a Museum Build-
ing will be a necessity on the campus and the arrangement of
the exhibits and the accumulation of the research series are
planned with this end in view. With comfortable rooms in which
the research series may be made accessible to advanced workers,
the museum will become a center of scientific study, where the
botanist, the geologist, the zoologist and the ethnologist may
come and find material upon which to base their papers and
books. The undergraduate student, as well as the casual visitor,
may visit the exhibit halls and supplement the information re-
ceived in the lectures and in the texts.
The Museum op Classical Abchaeologt and Art^^
A review of the growth of the Classical Museum during the
six and one-half years in which it has been open to the public
must begin with the year 1911, in which the formation of the
collection was authorized by the Board of Trustees. In that
"By Arthur Stanley Pease
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year Booms 402 and 404 Lincoln Hall were put at the disposal
of the Museum, the former a large attic room of irregular shape
but good lighting, the latter a small and rather dark room in-
tended for unpacking and preparing specimens.
The academic year 1911-12 was spent in the acquisition
of such material as the modest initial appropriation permitted.
It was from the beginning recognized that the museum should
have two main functions; one scientific affording material for
use by students in connection with courses in classics, ancient
history, private life, the history of art, archaeology and related
topics; the other more broadly artistic, as affording both to
students and the visiting public an opportunity to inspect and
enjoy objects typical of the best artistic work of antiquity.
The old art collection of the University, made in 1876, parts
of which are still here and there preserved, emphasized the
period of Hellenistic and Roman sculpture. Not to duplicate
these objects unnecessarily, it seemed desirable in the newly
founded museum to lay especial stress upon (1) the beginnings
of Greek art in the remains of the Aegaean Period and (2) the
highest development of the art in the fifth and fourth centuries
B. C. It was with a collection representing chiefiy these two
aspects of ancient culture that the museum was finally opened
to the public on November 8, 1912. On that occasion a formal
address was delivered by Professor G. H. Chase of Harvard
University upon "The Relation of Art Collections to the Uni-
versity and the People of the State."
Since that date the history of the Museum has been not so
much one of definite epochs as one of gradual and constant de-
velopment. Increasing appropriations and a few generous
gifts^ and loans^^ have made it possible to represent, at first
scantily, and latterly somewhat more fully, not only the field
of sculpture but also those of ancient painting, architecture
(chiefiy through the medium of photographs and diagrams), the
smaller arts such as glass and metals, and, by means of originals
and models, many features of ancient private life.
^Among donors shoold be especiaUy mentioned Mr. W. G. Hibbard of
Chicago
"Bj Professor J. S. Kingsley, Mr. B. P. Peadro, Professor A. T. 01m-
stead and others
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For this constant growth in the collection, increasing space
has been required. Boom 404 was early devoted to the display
of models and other objects of historical rather than artistic
interest. In 1914, Boom 406 was opened for the xuse of the
Museum and into it were put the parts of the collection belong-
ing to the Hellenistic and Boman periods. In 1917, a fourth
room (410) was set aside to receive the Babylonian and Egyp-
tian materials which had until then been included with the Greek
objects. Each of these enlargements, in addition to the extra
space which it has made available, has also permitted a more
satisfactory classification of specimens and a corresponding
diminution of the heterogeneous character which must neces-
sarily be found in a small museum of this kind.
A detailed catalog of the objects acquired by the Museum
would here be out of place, but a few statistics may be of in-
terest At the present time the Museum possesses 20 casts of
statues in the round, 14 busts, 127 casts of reliefs, 195 framed
pictures and about 2,190 photographs mounted on cards. Most
of the other objects are too varied to lend themselves readily
to such enumeration, yet there may be mentioned 29 original
Greek Papyri, 35 ancient lamps, 86 pieces of ancient glass, and
several hundred ancient coins. The proportion of originals se-
cured has gradually increased and in 1913-14 half the amount
expended upon specimens was for originals. Expense analyses
for the fairly typical years 1912-14 show that of the total
amounts expended a little more than 68% was for specimens;
17% for cases and framing; 12% for freight; 2% for labor;
and 1% for supplies.
That the number of visitors has increased as the collection
has been developed and become more widely known, is indi-
cated by the following table:
Nov., 1912-May, 1913 933
Oct., 1913-June, 1914 3,762
July, 1914-iJmie, 1915 5,883
June, 1915-nJune, 1916 6,210
July, 1916-June, 1917 6,887
June, 1917^une, 1918 6,529
Departments and individual students alike have also used
more extensively the facilities of the Museum. Public museum
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lectures have been tried on several occasions, but the limited
space in the rooms and the inconveniences and dangers to the
specimens resulting from the crowded condition have greatly
hampered this very important feature of the work and for the
development of a system of museum docents we must wait till
the completion of a museum building with adequate space for
both collections and visitors. The rapid growth of the collection
and the frequent changes necessary in its arrangement have thus
far discouraged the publication of a printed catalog, but this
lack has been in part obviated by the prompt and dear labeling
of each object on exhibition.
On the whole, the collection has been kept a representative
one, containing some of the best and most typical work from
many different fields. The ampler space of a new museum build-
ing, however, will make it possible to develop the collection on
the side of Greek sculpture, for additions to which our present
quarters offer little opportunity.
The Oriental Museum*®
The Oriental Museum was formally organized by action of
the Board in 1917 and was opened in temporary quarters at
•110 Lincoln Hall the next year. In it were incorporated the
various oriental objects hitherto preserved in the Museum of
Classical Archaeology, and to these were added by loan and by
purchase many other originals. Already it possesses a collection
of material from the Near East which is of the greatest value in
illustrating the various periods of its history. Especially note-
worthy is the large amount which throws light upon the Bible
and upon Biblical times.
To the museum has now been transferred the collection from
the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Fund which was pre-
sented to the University by Mr. W. G. Hibbard, Jr. From
Abydos comes a complete series of vases, from the prehistoric
times to the twenty-sixth dynasty; eight slate palettes of pre-
historic date; weights, an offering table, a Graeco-Roman grave
stele, and Coptic CoflSns ; ostraka with hieroglyphic and demotic
*By Oliver Ten Eyck Olmstead
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writing; two mummified ibises and one hawk. Pottery comes
from Ballabish and Sawama. A head piece and a foot piece
were found at Atfieh and mummy cloths and necklaces at Taieba.
A prehistoric flint knife is loaned by Professor J. S. Kingsbury,
and two scarabs and a series of small statuettes by Mr. B. F.
Peadro. By purchase has been secured a beautiful diorite head
of the best period, a smaller head of marble, two inscribed
statuettes, and a collection of alabaster vases.
The Babylonian tablets in the Museum number nearly 1,700
and are all unpublished. Over half come from the dynasty of
Ur, 2480-2361 B. C, and include the archives of the national
stockyards at Drehem, the business records of the city of Umma,
vouchers for the expense of the royal messengers, and stamped
clay tags for the parcel post. They are dated in the reigns
of Dungi, Bur, Sin and Gimil Sin. From Larsa come four hun-
dred from the end of the Nisin period and the age of Ham-
murapi. Two hundred more represent the Chaldaean and Per-
sian period and include dates in the reigns of Nabopolasser,
Nebuchadnezzar, Evil Merodach, Nabunaid, Cyrus, Cambyses,
Darius. Six cones and three tablets give the royal formulae
of Singashid of Uruk, and two student exercise tablets may also
be mentioned. By loan from the curator come the fragments
of bricks of Assyrian kings and of Nebuchadnezzar, also frag-
ments of colored bricks from Babylon. By recent purchase,
the Museum has acquired a splendid collection of Babylonian
seals which will be shortly published in a separate volume. The
tablets are likewise in process of decipherment.
Through the kindness of Dr. B. B. Charles of Philadelphia,
to the Museum has been loaned a unique collection of squeezes
or paper impressions of inscriptions, and these have been framed
and hung as far as the limited space would allow. They include
all the Hittite inscriptions discovered or newly collected by
him and his colleagues and published in "Travels and Studies
in the Nearer East," also a Hittite stele, the records of Tiglath
Pileser I and Shalmaneser III at the Tigris source, and the
Bavian inscription of Sennacherib. The curator has added
squeezes of Phoenician, Carthaginian and Palmyrene inscrip-
tions.
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By loan of the curator, the Musenm has the best collection in
existence of pottery fragments from the Near East, the result
of a pottery survey representing over two hundred sites in
every part of the former Turkey in Asia. Especially to be men-
tioned are the groups of the earliest ware from Asia Minor and
Armenia, the Hittite ware of the best period, Assyrian ware,
lamps, statuettes and other minor objects.
From Palestine come a fragmentary roll of the Law, a roll
of Esther, a Hebrew charm, pottery, fragments of mosaic work,
glass prehistoric flints, models of modem furniture, used purple
shells from Sidon, two inscribed Palmyrene tessarae, the loan
of the curator. A medical work from the middle ages, Arabic
in Hebrew characters, is loaned by Professor A. S. Pease.
Finally, mention should be made of the many unpublished pho-
tographs of the Near East. It is hoped that the Museum will
soon be able to move into larger quarters which will permit ade-
quate exhibition of the treasures already accumulated and of
what may be secured in the future.
Other New Collections
A number of other collections have been established during
the past fourteen years.
The Commerce Museum *»
For its courses in industrial economics and commerce the
University has had since 1905 a working collection of the ma-
terials of commerce; lanterns and several hundred slides;
political and industrial maps; and diagrams and stereoscopic
views illustrating various phases of commerce and industry.
Most of the articles constituting the commercial museum are
the gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, and of pri-
vate manufacturing and mercantile establishments.
Mmmo Engineering^^
This department has a complete exhibit of sized coal as
prepared by typical Illinois washeries, the raw materials and
"From Univ. of lU. Animal Begisters, 1913-14, pp. 75-76, and 1916-17^
p. 62.
*^mv. of lU. Annual Begister, 1913-14, p. 79
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the finished products illnstrating the briquetting of coal, models
of a metalliferous mine and of timber and steel mine supports,
a complete exhibit of explosive and blasting materials and appli-
ances, the Braeger, Fleuss and Westphalia breathing apparatus,
and all of the appliances necessary for mine rescue and first aid
demonstration, a collection of safety-lamps and other mine light-
ing devices, and working drawings and photographs of mine
machinery.
Railway Engineering^^
The department of Bailway Engineering has an unusually
complete exhibit of photographs illustrating the development in
transportation; an exhibit showing the progress in the design
and manufacture of rails ; models of locomotive valve gears ; a
full-sized model of the front end of a Richmond compound loco-
motive ; and sets of working drawings of locomotives, cars and
other railway equipment
This collection was begun in 1906. During the past years
1912-14 an especially large number of photographs of both
American and foreign equipment, forms of bridge construction,
etc., were added.
Several other departments of the College of Engineering
possess collections of historical materials drawn from their re-
si)ective fields of practise. The department of mechanical
engineering is the custodian of a 600 H. P. vertical triple-expan-
sion engine, direct connected with an electric generator, a type
of machine in common xuse for power station service twenty years
ago. The departments of Civil Engineering and Theoretical and
Applied Mechanics maintain exhibits of tested specimens and
structures.**
*XTiiiv. of m. Annual Register, 1913-14, p. 79. Cf. TJniv. of DL
Begistera, 1903-04, pp. 47-52; 1916-17, pp. 60-62
■H}f. Univ. of BL Annual Register, 1916-17, p. 62
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CHAPTER V
THE FACULTY
The first president (or ''Regent'') of the University was
elected March 12, 1867 and entered upon the duties of his office
on the first day of the following month.* During thenext twelve
months three additional members of the faculty were chosen,
by whom, together with the Regent, instruction was given dur-
ing the first term — extending from March 2, 1868 to June 13,
1868.2 A year later the Regent reported that the instructional
force had been increased to three professors and three assistant
professors, representing the departments of History, English,
Chemistry, Agriculture, Botany, Mathematics, Bookkeeping and
Modem Languages. There were also two non-resident lec-
turers—on Pomology and on English Literature, respectively.'
For the first twenty years, the maximum number of mem-
bers of the University faculty in any one year was thirty-three —
in 1878-79.
In 1887-88 there were only twenty-nine members, but for
the next eight years there was a regular yearly increase and
by 1895-6 there were eighty-four. The addition of the College
of Medicine in 1897* increased the number of the instructional
staflf to 170 for the year 1896-7. For the next six years there
was again a steady annual increase, and by the year 1903-4
the number had reached 351.
During the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920 the number
of members of the faculty rose from 351 to 943. This was an
increase of 592, or 168 per cent.
In the following table the size of the faculty is given for
each year since the opening of the University. Members of the
library staff are included in the enumeration, but clerks, stenog-
raphers and miscellaneous employees of the University are not
included.
»Bept., Univ. of IlL, 1868, pp. 18, 81
"Ibid, pp. 87, 94
•Bept., Univ. of HI., 1869, p. 62
*I11. Sch. Bept, 1910-12, p. 480
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SIZE OP FACULTY BY YEAES,
1867-1920
Year
Facultj
Year
Facidtj
1867-68 4
1868-69 11
1869-70 19
1870-71 20
1871-72 24
1895-96 84
1896-97 170
1897-98 184
1898-99 194
1899-1900 229
1872-73 25
1878-74 25
1874-75 80
1875-76 27
1876-77 25
1900-01 242
190W2 297
1902-03 816
1908-04 851
1904-05 850
1877-78 29
1878-79 83
1879-80 29
1880-81 28
1881-82 26
1905-06 408
1906-07 442
1907-08 472
1908-09 497
1909-10 588
1882-83 24
1888-84 25
1884-85 27
1885-86 29
1886-87 29
1910-11 565
1911-12 583
1912-13 587
1913-14 764
1914-15 777
1887-88 29
1888-89 30
1889-90 32
1890-91 39
1891-92 43
1915-16 821
1916-17 868
1917-18 843»
1918-19 800
1919-20 943
1892-93 48
1893-94 67
1894-95 80
The increase from 1903-04 to 1919-20 was 592.
In the next table the constitation of the faculty for 1903-
04 and for 1919-20 according to rank is indicated. These figares
do not include duplicates. As in the preceding table, members
of the library staff are included in the enumeration, but not
'Does not check with figure given in Begister, Univ. of lU., 1917-18,
pp. 516-517
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clerks, stenographers and miscellaneous employees of the Uni-
versity.
FACULTT 190304 AND 1919-20
ACCORDINO TO RANK
1903-04 1919-20
Bank Men Women Total Men Women Total
Professors 103 4 107 164 2 166
Associate Professors 13 1 14 38 .. 38
Assistant Professors 62 3 65 107 3 110
Associates 108 12 120
Lecturers 2 .. 2 8 .. 8
Instructors 112 28 140 112 36 148
Assistants 13 2 15 148 60 208
Graduate Assistants . . 31 5 36
^Student Assistants 3 .. 8 55 2 57
"Total 308 38 346 771 120 891
"Officers of Administration 5 . . 5 16 36 52
Total 313 38 351 787 156 943
^Includes those in Military Science
*Does not include administrative officers
Includes library assistants of which there are 44 men and 6 women,
duplicates excluded
Additions to the Faculty, 1904 to 1920
The following persons at present members of the University
faculty (in 1919-20), were appointed during the sixteen years
from 1904 to 1920. The list includes only persons of the rank
of assistant professor or above.^
The Council op Administration
1904 Edmund Janes James, Ph. D., LL.D., President.
1907 William Freeman Myrick Goss,^ M.S., D.Eng., Professor
of Railway Engineering, Dean of the College of En-
gineering, Director of the Engineering Experiment
Station and Director of the School of Railway En-
gineering and Administration.
•The date preceding each name is that on which the person became a
member of the faculty of the University, but not necessarily that on which
he was appointed to the position now occupied. The order is that of
seniority
'Eesigned March 1, 1917
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1913 Kendric Charles Babcock, B.Lit., Ph.D., LL.D., Dean of
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
1906 Frederick Brown Moorehead, A.B., D.D.S., M.D., Pro-
fessor of Oral Surgery, Pathology and Bacteriology,
and Acting Dean of the College of Dentistry.
1913 Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer, B.S., Ph.D., M.D., Pro-
fessor of Anatomy, Head of the Department and Dean
of the College of Medicine.
1916 Henry Winthrop Ballantine, A.B., LL.D., Professor of
Law and Dean of the College of Law.
1911 Charles Buss Richards,^ M.E., M.M.E., Dean of the Col-
lege of Engineering and Director of the Engineering
Experiment Station.
1918 Ruby Elizabeth Campbell Mason, A.M., Dean of Women.
1917 Werret Wallace Charters,^ Ph.D., Professor of Educa-
tion and Dean of the College of Education.
1919 Charles Ernest Chadsey, Ph.D.,Litt.D., Professor of Edu-
cation and Dean of the College of Education.
1911 Charles Manfred Thompson, Ph.D., Professor of Econom-
ics and Dean of the College of Commerce and Business
Administration.
1919 George Frederick Ney Dailey, Capt., Signal Corps, U.S.A.,
Professor of Military Science and Tactics and Com-
mandant.
The Senate^^
1904 Frederick Green, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Law.
1904 James Wilford Gamer, Ph.D., Professor of Political
Science.
1905 Edward Bartow, Ph.D., Professor of Sanitary Chemistry,
and Director of the State Water Survey.
1907 William Albert Noyes, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Chem-
istry and Director of the Chemical Laboratory.
•Appointed as Dean and Director March 1, 1917
•Resigned, August 31, 1919
*The Senate is composed of all University oflScers of full professorial
rank and all others in charge of independent departments of instruction.
Members of the Council are therefore members of the Senate also, but
their names are not repeated in the Senate list
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1907 Emest Ritson Dewsnup,^ * A.M., Prof easor of Railway Ad-
ministration.
1906 George Abram Miller, PLD., Professor of Mathematics.
1907 Edward Gary Hayes, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology.
1908 Julius Ooebel, Ph.D., Professor of German.
1909 Phineas Lawrence Windsor, Ph. B., Librarian and Direc-
tor of the Library School.
1909 Boyd Henry Bode, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy.
1909 Henry Baldwin Ward, Ph.D., Professor of Zoology.
1909 Harry Harkness Stock, B.S., E.M., Professor of Mining
Engineering.
1907 Stuart Pratt Sherman, Ph.D., Professor of English and
Chairman of the Committee of the Department of
English.
1912 Edward Harris Decker," A.B., LL.B., Professor of Law
and Acting Librarian of the College of Law.
1909 John Archibald Fairlie, Ph.D., Professor of Political
Science.
1910 John Norton Pomeroy, A.M., LL.B., Professor of Law.
1911 Bruce Willet Benedict, B.S., Manager of Shop Labora-
tories in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
1912 William Edward Burge, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Physiology and Acting Head of the Department.
1909 Emest Ludlow Bogart, Ph.D., Professor of Economics.
1909 William Green Hale, B.S., LL.B., Professor of Law.
1912 Madison Bentley, B.S., Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
and Director of the Psychological Laboratory.
1913 Harry Alexis Harding, Ph.D., Professor of Dairy Bac-
teriology
1913 William Trelease, D.Sc., LL.D., Professor of Botany and
Acting Head of the Department
1913 John Sterling Kingsley, D.Sc, Professor of Zoology.
1906 William Shirley Bayley, Ph.D., Professor of Geology.
1906 Walter Costella Coflfey, M.S., Professor of Sheep Hus-
bandry.
1907 Laurence Marcellus Larson, Ph.D., Professor of History.
1907 Otto Eduard Lessing, Ph.D., Professor of German.
^Besigned, 1920
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1907 Ellery Burton Paine, M.S., E.E., Associate Professor of
Electrical Engineering and Acting Head of the De-
partment.
1908 Edward Wight Washbnm, Ph.D., Professor of Ceramic
Chemistry and Head of the Department of Ceramic
Engineering.
1913 Loring Harvey Provine, B.S., A.E., Professor of Archi-
tectural Engineering and Acting Head of the Depart-
ment of Architecture.
1914 Frank Lincoln Stevens, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Path-
ology.
1907 Herbert Fisher Moore, B.S., M.M.E., Research Professor
of Engineering Materials.
1914 John Lawrence Erb, F.A.G.O., Director of the School of
Music and University Organist
1915 Frederick Haynes Newell, B.S., D.Eng., Professor of Civil
Engineering and Head of the Department.
1915 Kenneth McEenzie, Ph.D., Professor of Romance Lan-
guages and Head of the Department
1909 William Abbott Oldfather, Ph.D., Professor of the
Classics.
1914 Charles Alton Ellis, A.B., Professor of Structural Engin-
eering.
1915 Louise Freer, B.S., Director of Physical Training for
Women.
1909 Arthur Stanley Pease, Ph.D., Professor of the Classics
and Curator of the Museum of Classical Art and
Archaeology.
1909 Charles Zeleny, Ph.D., Professor of Zoology.
1909 John DriscoU Fitz-Gerald II, Ph.D., Professor of Spanish.
1913 Albert Howe Lybyer, Ph.D., Professor of History.
1916 Ernest Bembaum, Ph.D., Professor of English.
1916 Cullen Warner Parmelee, B.S., Professor of Ceramic
Engineering.
1911 Alexander Dyer MacQillivray, Ph.D., Professor of Syste-
matic Entomology.
1917 Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, Ph.D., Professor of History
and Curator of the Oriental Museum.
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1913 Arthur Cutts Willard, B.S., Professor of Heating and
Ventilation,
1916 Robert Graham, D.V.M., Professor of Animal Pathology.
1918 Burdette Ross Buckingham, Ph.D., Professor of Educa-
tion and Director of the Bureau of Educational Re-
search.
1912 William Leonidas Burlison, Ph.D., Professor of Crop
Production.
1910 Harrison Edward Cunningham, A. B., Director of the
. University Press and Secretary of the Board of Trus-
tees.
1907 Bethel Stewart Pickett, M.S., Professor of Pomology.
1908 Herman Bernard Domer, M.S., Professor of Floricul-
ture.
1910 James Lloyd Edmonds, B.S., Professor of Horse Hus-
bandry.
1915 Melvin Lorenius Enger, B.S., C.E., Professor of Theoreti-
cal and Applied Mechanics.
1911 Walter Frederick Handschin, B.S., Professor of Farm
Organization and Management, State Leader of County
Demonstration Work, and Acting Vice-Director of the
Demonstration Service.
1911 Harvey Herbert Jordan, B.S., Assistant Professor of
General Engineering Drawing and Assistant Dean of
College of Engineering.
1918 Jerome Edward Readhimer, B.S., Professor of Soils (Ex-
tension).
1910 Henry Perly Rusk, M.S., Professor of Beef Cattle Hus-
bandry.
1913 Hiram Thomas Scovill, A.B., C.P.A., Professor of Ac-
countancy.
1910 James Byrnie Shaw, D.Sc, Professor of Mathematics.
1915 Robert Stewart, Ph.D., Professor of Soil Fertility.
1918 Arthur Byron Coble, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics.
1918 Everett Edgar King, A.B., M.C.E., Professor of Railway
Civil Engineering.
1918 James Therod Rood, Ph.D., Professor of Railway Elec-
trical Engineering.
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1919 Ira Samuel Griffith, A.B., Professor of Industrial Edu-
cation.
1916 Roger Adams, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry.
1912 Joseph Howard Beard, M.D., Professor of Hygiene and
University Health Officer.
1912 John A. Detlefsen, D.Sc, Professor of Genetics.
1909 George Tobias Flom, Ph.D., Professor of Scandinavian.
1919 Walter Lee Gaines, Ph.D., Professor of Milk Production.
1908 Simon Litman, Dr. Jur. Pub. et Rer. Cam., Professor of
Economics.
1919 Eric Keightley Rideal, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Physi-
cal Chemistry.
1907 Thomas Edmund Savage, Ph.D., Professor of Strati-
graphic Geology.
1919 Lorado Taft, M.L., L.H.D., Non-Resident Professor of
Art.
1912 Harrison August Ruehe, M.S., Assistant Professor of
Dairy Manufactures and Acting Head of the Depart-
ment of Dairy Husbandry.
1912 Albert Lemuel Whiting, Ph.D., Professor of Soil Biology.
1919 Cliff Winfield Stone, Ph.D., Acting Professor of Educa-
tional Psychology.
1919 Terence Thomas Quirk, Ph. D., Associate Professor of
Geology and Chairman of the Department.
1920 Edwin Herbert Cameron, Ph.D., Professor of Educational
Psychology.
Associate Professors
1909 Jacob Kunz, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematical
Physics.
1909 Howard Vernon Canter, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
the Classics and Assistant Dean of the College of Lib-
eral Arts and Sciences.
1910 David Ford McFarland, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Applied Chemistry.
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1911 Jolm Mabry Mathews, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Po-
litical Science.
1917 Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, Ph.B., Associate Professor of
Architectural Design*
1915 Robert Daniel Carmichael, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Mathematics.
1913 Martin John Prucha, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Dairy
Bacteriology.
1909 William Spence Robertson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
History.
1911 Arnold Emch, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics.
1915 Howard Bishop Lewis, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Physiological Chemistry.
1919 Walter Scott Monroe, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Edu-
cation and Assistant Director of the Bureau of Muni-
cipal Research.
1915 Christian Alban Ruckmick, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Psychology.
1909 Fred B. Sedey, B.S., Associate Professor of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics.
1913 Wilbur M. Wilson, M.M.E., Associate Professor of Struc-
tural Engineering.
1919 Robert Francis Seybolt, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
History of Education.
1919 Jay Courtiand Hadd^nan, A.M., Associate Professor of
Crops Production.
1912 B. Smith Hopkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Chem-
istry.
1919 Thomas James Camp, Capt. Inf., U.S.A., Associate Pro-
fessor of Military Science and Executive Officer.
1919 William Demson Alexander, Capt, Field Art, U.S.A.,
Associate Professor of Military Science.
1919 Jesse Benjamin Eommers, B.S., Special Research Asso-
ciate Professor of Engineering Materials.
Assistant Professors
1907 Edward Hardenbergh Waldo, A.B., M.S., M.E., Assistant
Professor of Electrical Engineering.
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1911 Aretas WUbur Nolan, A3., M.S., Assistant Professor of
Agricultural Extension.
1906 Harrie Staart Yedder Jones, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
of English.
1910 Leonard Bloomfield, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Com-
parative Philology and German.
1907 James Elmo Smith, C. E., Assistant Professor of Civil
Engineering.
1914 Victor Ernest Shelford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Zoology.
1909 Earnest Winfield Bailey, M.S., Assistant Professor of
Pomology.
1915 (George Nelson Coflfey, Ph.D., Assistant State Leader of
County Advisers.
1907 Axel Ferdinand Gustafson, M.S., Assistant Professor of
Soil Physics.
1913 Albert Woodward Jamison, M.S., Assistant Professor of
Agricultural Extension.
1907 Ernest Van Alstine, B.S., Assistant Professor of
Agronomy.
1916 James Dater Bilsborrow, B.S., Assistant State Leader of
County Advisers.
1907 Arthur Robert Crathome, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Mathematics.
1911 Balph Kent Hursh, B.S., Assistant Professor of Ceramic
Engineering.
1907 Jacob Zeitlin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of English.
1915 Virgil R. Fleming, B.S., Assistant Professor of Theoreti-
cal and Applied Mechanics.
1912 Arthur Charles Cole, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of His-
tory.
1912 Walter Byron Gemert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Plant Breeding.
1914 Frederick Nobel Evans, A.B., M.L.A., Assistant Professor
of Landscape Gardening.
1911 Harry Warren Anderson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Pomology.
1911 Frederick Charles Bauer, M.S., Assistant Professor of
Soil Fertility.
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1911 George Denton Beal, PIlD., Pharm.D., Assistant Profes-
sor of Chemistry.
1908 Florence Rising Curtis, A.M., B.L.S., Assistant Professor
of Library Economy.
1908 Harrison Frederick Gonnerman, M.S., Research Assistant
Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
1905 Albert Austin Harding, B.Mus., Assistant Professor of
Music and Director of the Military Bands.
1915 Harry Franklin Harrington, A.M., Assistant Professor of
Journalism.
1915 Oliver Kamm, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
1911 Aubrey John Kempner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Mathematics.
1907 Alonzo Plumstead Kratz, M.S., Research Assistant Pro-
fessor of Mechanical Engineering.
1911 Philip Augustus Lehenbauer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
of Plant Physiology.
1913 Walter Byron McDougall, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Botany.
1915 Harold Hanson Mitchell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Animal Nutrition.
1918 Rexford Newcomb, M.Arch., Assistant Professor of Archi-
tectural History.
1918 John Henry Reedy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chem-
istry.
1913 Gustaf Eric Wahlin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathe-
matics.
1910 Elmer Howard Williams, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Experimental Physics.
1913 Charles Henry Woolbert, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Speech.
1919 Morris M. Leighton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Ge-
ology.
1914 Russell McCulloch Story, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Political Science.
1912 Edward Joseph Filbey, Ph.D., C.P.A., Assistant Profes-
sor of Accountancy.
1916 Frederic Arthur Russell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Business Organization and Operation.
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1917 Donald Mahaney Allison, A.B., Assistant Professor of
Architectural Design.
1913 Harold Eaton Babbitt, M.S., Assistant Professor of Muni-
cipal and Sanitary Engineering.
1919 Paul Everette Belting, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sec-
ondary Education.
1918 Henry Blumberg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Mathe-
matics.
1916 William Everett Britton, A.M., J.D., Assistant Professor
of Law and Librarian of the College of Law.
1913 Ernest McChesney Clark, B.S., Assistant Professor of
Dairy Production.
1910 Herbert LeSourd Creek, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
English and Assistant Dean of Foreign Students.
1919 John L. Griffith, A.B., Assistant Professor of Physical
Education.
1915 Gilbert Gusler, M.S., Assistant Professor of Animal Hus-
bandry.
1916 Merlin Harold Hunter, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Economics.
1912 Robert Taylor Jones, B.S., Assistant Professor of Archi-
tecture.
1919 James McKinney, Assistant Professor of Industrial Edu-
cation and Director of the Chicago Center.
1918 Jean Gilbert MacKinnon, A.M., Assistant Professor of
Home Economics.
1911 Lloyd Morey, A.B., B.Mus., C.P.A., Assistant Professor of
Accountancy and Comptroller.
1917 Oliver Ralph Overman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Dairy Chemistry.
1916 Cyrus Edgar Palmer, M.S., Assistant Professor of Archi-
tectural Engineering.
1912 Prank Ashmore Pearson, B.S., Assistant Professor of
Dairy Economics.
1907 George Wellington Pickels, C.E., Assistant Professor of
Civil Engineering.
1911 Gustav Howard Radebaugh, Assistant Manager of Shop
Laboratories.
1919 John Bums Read, E.M., Assistant Professor of Mining
Engineering.
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1919 Burke Shartel, S.J.D.y Assifiitant Professor of Law.
1910 William Herschel Smith, M.S., Assistant Professor of
Animal Hnsbandry.
1916 Fred Wilbur Tanner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bac-
teriology.
1911 Harley Jones VanCleave, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Zoology.
1913 Harry William Waterfall, B.S., Assistant Professor of
Mechanical Engineering.
1915 (Gordon Watkins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics.
1906 Carroll Carson Wiley, C.E., Assistant Professor of High-
way Engineering.
1912 Robert Carl Zuppke, Ph.B., Assistant Professor of Physi-
cal Education.
1909 Warren Albert Ruth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Pomology.
1919 Edwin Hardin Sutherland, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Sociology.
1919 Paul J. Kiefer, B.S., Assistant Professor of Steam En-
gineering.
1915 Roscoe Raymond Snapp, B.S., Assistant Professor of
Animal Husbandry.
1913 Charles Earl Bradbury, B.P., Assistant Professor of Art
and Design.
1919 Russell Dunn Barnes, 1st Lieut., Infantry, U.S.A., Assis-
tant Professor of Military Science and Tactics.
1919 Chauncey Aubrey Bennett, Captain, Field Artillery, U.S.
A., Assistant Professor of Military Science and Tactics.
1919 Robert W. Grow, Captain, Cavalry, U.S.A., Assistant
Professor of Military Science and Tactics.
College of Medicine
professors
1913 Casey A. Wood, A.M., M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology
and Head of the Department.
1913 Norval Pierce, M.D., Professor of Surgery (Laryngology,
Rhinology and Otology) and Head of the Division.
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1913 Albert E. Halstead, M.D., Professor of Surgery and
Clinical Surgery.
1913 Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer.ioB.S., Ph.D., M.D., Pro-
fessor of Anatomy, Head of the Department, and Dean.
1913 David John Davis, Acting Professor of Pathology, Act-
ing Head of the Department, and Director of the De-
partment of Experimental Medicine.
1913 Julius H. Hess, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical
Pediatrics and Head of the Division.
1906 Lee Harrison Mettler, A.M., M.D., Professor of Neurology
and Clinical Neurology and Head of the Division.
1917 Hugh Alister McGuigan, Ph.D., M. D., Professor of Ma-
teria Medica, Pharmacy and Therapeutics.
1917 Edward Vail Lapham Browne, B.S., M.D., Professor of
Ophthalmology and Head of the Department.
1917 Edwin Warner Ryerson, M.D., Professor of Surgery
(Orthopedic) and Head of the Division.
1916 Harold Douglas Singer, M.D., M.R.C.P., Professor of
Psychiatry and Head of the Division.
1919 Herman M. Adler, A.B., M.D., Professor of Criminology
and Head of the Department.
1919 Henry Foster Lewis, A.B., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics
and Clinical Obstetrics.
1905 Charles Edward Humiston, M.D., Professor of Clinical
Surgery.
ASSOCIATE PBOFESSORS
1908 Charles Mayer Jacobs, M.D., Associate Professor of Clini-
cal Orthopedic Surgery.
1906 Joseph C. Beck, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery
(Laryngology, Rhinology and Otology).
1910 Nelson Mortimer Percy, M.D., Associate Professor of
Clinical Surgery.
1918 Frank Smithies, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine.
1905 Edward Louis Heintz, Ph.G., M.D., Associate Professor
of Medicine and Clinical Medicine.
^*Incladed flupra under the Council of Administration
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1910 Maurice Lewison, M.D., Associate Professor of Physical
Diagnosis.
1912 George Famsworth Thompson, B.S., M.D., Associate Pro-
fessor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery.
1917 Arthur Richard Elliott, M.D., Associate Professor of
Medicine.
1910 Otto Herman Rohrlack, Ph.G., M.D., Associate Professor
of Obstetrics and Clinical Obstetrics.
1913 William Henry Welker, A.C., Ph.D., Associate Professor
of Chemistry.
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
1908 Frederick George Dyas, M.D., Assistant Professor of
Surgery and Clinical Surgery.
1906 Frank Donald Moore, M.D., Assistant Professor of Sur-
gery and Clinical Surgery.
1915 Victor Emanuel Emmel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Anatomy.
1913 Edward Franklin Leonard, M.D., Assistant Professor of
Neurology.
1913 Charles M. McKenna, M.D., Assistant Professor of Sur-
gery (Genito-Urinary).
1914 Roy Lee Moodie, A.B., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of
Anatomy.
1916 Jesse Elliot Royer, M.D., Assistant Professor of Neu-
rology.
1906 Cecil von Bachelle, M.S., M.D., Assistant Professor of
Obstetrics.
1906 John Michael Lang, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical
Gynecology.
1918 Benjamin Franklin Lounsbury, B.S., M.D., Assistant Pro-
fessor of Operative Surgery.
1918 Henry Bascom Thomas, B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor
of Orthopedic Surgery.
1918 Charles Francis Read, B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry.
1910 John Ross Harger, B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor of
Surgery.
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1911 Frank Chauvet, M.D., Assistant Professor of Physical
Diagnosis.
1914 Karl Albert Meyer, M.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery
and Clinical Surgery.
1918 Cassius Clay Rogers, A.B., M.D., Assistant Professor of
Surgery.
1913 Josiah John Moore, B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor of
Pathology and Bacteriology.
1913 Ernest Sisson Moore, Ph.D., M.D., Assistant Professor of
Clinical Medicine.
1910 Henry Eugene Irish, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pedi-
atrics.
1911 Charles Herbert Phifer, M.D., Assistant Professor of Sur-
gery.
1906 Egan Walter Fischmann, M.D., Assistant Professor of
Gynecology.
1914 Morris Lamm Blatt, M.D., Assistant Professor of Pedi-
atrics.
1911 Adolph Hartung, M.D., Assistant Professor of Roentgen-
ology.
1919 Walter H. Meents, B.S., M.D., Assistant Professor of Sur-
gery.
1919 Ralph Chess Pumell Truitt, M.D., Assistant Professor of
Neurology and Psychiatry.
College op Dentistry
PROFESSORS
1906 Frederick Brown Moorehead," A. B., D.D.S., M.D., Pro-
fessor of Oral Surgery, Pathology and Bacteriology and
Dean of the College.
1913 Frederick Bogue Noyes, B.S., D.D.S., Professor of Ortho-
dontia and Histology and Secretary of the Faculty.
1913 Edgar David Coolidge, D.D.S., Professor of Materia
Medica and Therapeutics.
1908 Louis Schultz, D.D.S., M.D., Professor of Oral Surgery
and Pathology.
'^Included supra under the Council of Administration
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1904 Louis E. Bake, D.D.S., Associate Professor of Operative
Technics and Porcelain Art.
1913 Solomon Perry Starr, D.D.S., Associate Professor of
Prosthetic Technics*
1913 Frank Joseph Bernard, D.D.S., Assistant Professor of
Oral Surgery (Extracting).
1914 John C. McOuire, D.D.S., Assistant Professor of Radiog-
raphy and Superintendent of the Infirmary.
1914 William Ira Williams, D.D.S., Assistant Professor of Op-
erative Dentistry.
SCHOCHi OF PhABMAOY
1905 Albert Henry Qark, B.S., Ph.Q., Assistant Professor of
Chemistry.
1912 Bernard Fantus, M.D., Lecturer on Phsrsiology.
BETmSMENT OF PROFESSORS BURRUiL AND ShATTUOK
September 1, 1912, Professors T. J. BurriU and S. W. Shat-
tuck, the last two members of the original faculty of the Uni-
versity, became professors emeriti, and retired on Carnegie al-
lowances from active service. Professor Burrill came to the Uni-
versity in 1868 as instructor in algebra, but was soon appointed
assistant professor of natural history. He served at various
times as professor, vice-president, acting president, dean of the
college of science and dean of the graduate schooL In spite
of his many administrative duties Dr. Burrill was active as an
investigator and made a number of scientific discoveries of the
first importance.
Professor Shattuck came to the University in 1868 as as-
sistant professor of mathematics and instructor in military
tactics. For the next forty-four years he was at various times
professor and head of the department of mathematics, acting
president, professor of civil engineering, business manager and
comptroller. His careful, honest management of the Univer-
sity's finances had no small part in bringing about the steady
growth of the institution.
Upon the retirement of Professors Burrill and Shattuck the
University Senate presented to each a specially designed gold
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medal. The formal presentation of the medals occurred at a
special University convocation held in honor of the two retiring
professors October 16, 1912.
Professor Shattuck died at Urbana, February 13, 1915. Dr.
Burrill died at Urbana on the 14th of April, 1916.
Retirement of Professors McIntosh, Bicker, and Bolfe
September 1, 1915, marked the retirement of Professor
Donald Mcintosh, for nearly thirty years Professor of Veterin-
ary Science at the University of Illinois, and at the time of his
withdrawal from active work, the oldest member of the College
of Agriculture in point of service. He came to the institution
in 1885 to give a course of lectures in Veterinary Science. During
the following year he was promoted to the grade of Professor
and thereafter served as the only instructor in Veterinary
Science. His death occurred upon September 5, 1915, just five
days after his retirement from active work, and the courses to
which he had devoted himself so faithfully during the last thirty
years were temporarily withdrawn.
On September 1, 1916, Professor N. C. Bicker was elected
professor emeritus and retired upon a Carnegie allowance. Pro-
fessor Bicker came to the University as a student in 1870. Three
years later he was appointed instructor in Architecture and
given charge of the department. For the next thirty-seven years
he served the University in a number of increasingly important
ofSces; one year instructor in Architecture, one year assistant
professor of Architecture, thirty-five years professor of Archi-
tecture, and beginning in 1878 for twenty-seven years Dean
of the College of Engineering. To this pioneer the University
of Illinois owes much, for it was his patient and persistent
labor that developed here a Department of Architecture in which
the State may take an honest pride.
Entering the University two years earlier and retiring from
active service one year later than Professor Bicker, Professor
C. W. Bolfe became professor emeritus on September 1, 1917.
"He was graduated from the University of Illinois with the de-
gree of B.S. with the class of 1872, having entered in 1868.
Beginning as instructor in Mathematics and Botany, he has been
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instmctor, assistant professor, and professor in the University
since 1881. His continuous service has extended over thirty-
six years.'*** Today the Department of Ceramic Engineering
stands as a monument to the faithful and devoted services of
this man, for he, more than any one else, was responsible for
initiating and establishing upon a firm foundation the work
of this department.
In the Matter of Qualtfy
No other feature of the equipment of a university will so
largely determine its strength as will the men who are charged
with the direct conduct of its various activities. Abundance
of land, numerous and spacious buildings, well equipped labora-
tories and libraries and large revenues will not singly or all
combined insure for a university either strength or progress. In
the final analysis it is the personnel of the faculty that will
chiefiy determine the value of the university to the common-
wealth and its rank among its sister institutions of learning.
The increase in the number of the instructional and admin-
istrative staff of the University during the past twelve years has
been a matter of necessity, in response to a steadily increasing
enrolment of students. An increase in the actual strength of
the faculty, from the standpoint of scholarship and teaching
ability, could, however, come only as a result of the exercise of
the greatest care in the selection of individual instructors.
Throughout the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920, whether a
candidate was to occupy an important or a minor position,
thorough consideration has been given to his scholarship, his
ability to impart information and to inspire active efforts
on the part of his students, his personal character and his own
activity as a thinker and a producer of that which would add
to the world's store of knowledge. One college of the Univer-
sity after another has been thus strengthened, until at the
present time there is probably no department in which the work
done is not of a distinctiy high grade and no department in
which a student may not come under the instruction of one or
more of the country's leading scholars in that field of study.
"Mmutes of Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of HI., July 17, 1917, p. 414
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This policy of selecting only the best men has inydyed as
a necessary prerequisite the willingness to pay somewhat higher
salaries than were formerly paid to those occupying similar
positions. That the purpose of the governing board of the
University to strengthen the faculty by this means has been
fully approved by the people of the state is well shown by a
joint resolution adopted in 1909 by the Forty-Sixth General
Assembly, reading as follows :^^ •
"Whereas, It is the evident will of the people of this com-
monwealth that the University of Illinois shall be made so com-
plete in its organization and equipment that no son or daughter
of this State shall be obliged to seek in other states or other
countries those advantages of higher education which are neces-
sary to the greatest efficiency of social service either in public
or private station; and
''Whereas, the State of Illinois has imposed upon this in-
stitution, in its agricultural and engineering experiment sta-
tions, and in its graduate school, the duty of carrying on
extensive and important investigations of vital interest to the
agricultural industry and education of the State, and the con-
duct of these investigations calls for the very highest ability
and the most thorough training on the part of those entrusted
with their supervision; and
"Whereas, the great progress of this institution in the last
five years has attracted the attention of the whole country, and
made other institutions desirous of drawing away the members
of the faculties in said university; and
"Whereas, the present schedule of salaries is not sufficient
to enable the institution to compete on equal grounds with other
state and private universities in the United States; there-
fore be it
"Resolved, By the Senate, the House of Representatives con-
curring herein. That it is the s^ise of this General Assembly
that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois should
adopt such a policy as will in their judgment attract to, and
retain in, the service of the University and the State, the best
available ability of this and other countries."
""Laws of HL, 1909, p. 496
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The following tables show the number of persons reoeiving
salaries of various amounts in 1903-04, and the number of those
receiving similar salaries in 1919-20. It will be noted that
whereas in the earlier year only the president of the University
received a salary of more than $3,800, and only five persons
other than he received as much as $3,000 ; in 1919-20 one hun-
dred and five persons were receiving $3,000 or more a year, of
whom nine received $4,000, three $4,500, sixteen $5,000, five
$5,500 and five $6,000 or more. It may be further noted that
in 1917-18 approximately 29 per cent of the faculty were re-
ceiving salaries of $2,500 or more, as against 10.3 per cent in
1903-04 ; 68 per cent were receiving $1,500 or over, as against
40 per cent in 1903-04; 98 per cent were receiving $1,000 or
more ; and 1.6 per cent were receiving less than $1,000 as against
30 per cent in 1903-4.
SALARIES OF FACULTY 1903-04 AND 1919-20*
Presideiit
Yiee President
Deans, Professors Associates
Associate Professors Instructors
Assistant Professors Assistants
Salary 1903-04 1919-20 1903-04 1919-20
Over $6000 1 2
♦6000 8
6500 6
6000 18
4500 8
4250 1
4000 24
3500-3800 1 35
3400 3
3000-3300 4 49 1
2600-2900 4 81
2500 8 15
2250-2400 2 20 24
2000-2200 20 10 2 52
1500-1900 25 2 109
1200-1400 11 10 61
1000-1100 2 30 5
Less than $1000 52 1
^he table includes only full-time members of the faculty. Of the
library staflf only those persons who gave instruction in the Library School
are included. Clerks, stenographers and miscellaneous employees of the
Umversity are not included.
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SUMMABY OF SALABIES 1903-04 AND 1919-20
1903-04 1919-20
Salaries Number Per Cent Number Per Cent
$6000 or over 1 0.6 10 2.0
5900 or over 1 0.6 16 3.2
5000 or over 1 0.6 29 5.8
4500 or over 1 0.6 37 7.4
4000 or over 1 0.6 62 12.5
3500 or over 2 1.1 97 19.5
3000 or over 6 3.4 130 28.2
2500 or over 18 10.3 176 35.4
2000 or over 42 39.7 282 56.8
1500 or over 69 39.7 416 83.8
1000 or over 122 70.1 495 99.8
Less than $1000 52 29.9 1 ^
The following table shows the average salaries received by
members of the faculty of 'each rank in 1903-04 and in 1919-20.
The average increase was 83 per cent.
AYEBAOE SALABIES OF FULL-TIME MEMBEBS
%of
1903-04 1919-20 Increase Increase
Average for Instructional Staff $1,321 $2,419 $1,098 83
• • • •
Deans*. 2,871 5,195 2,324 80
Professors 2,166 3,847 1,681 77
Associate Professors 1,867 2,910 1,043 55
Assistant Professors 1,475 2,544 • 1,069 72
Associates 2,066 ....
Instructors 978 1,614 978 65
Assistants 778 1,306 528 67
Scholarship, teaching ability and personality are elements
that cannot easily be represented by statistics. These qualities,
however, together with the activity evidenced as an investigator
and a writer, form the basis of the judgment passed upon a
teacher by his professional brethren in other institutions and by
the world at large. Thus, one indication of the growth in
*No administrative officers of the University other than deans are in-
cluded in the table
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strength in the faculty of the University of Illinois may be seen
in the fact that in 1903-05 edition of Who's Who in America
thirty-four names of members of the faculty of the University
were given, and that in the 1918-19 edition of this publication
the number had increased to 124 — a gain of 90, or 265 per cent
for the past sixteen years.
In the first edition of the American Men of Science, pub-
lished in 1906, the names of six members of the faculty of the
University of Illinois were starred as being among "the thou-
sand students of the natural and exact sciences in the United
States, whose work is supposed to be the most important" In
the four years from 1906 to 1910 the number increased to 17,
a gain of nearly 200 per cent. ' In commenting upon this fact
the editor says:**
"As has been already indicated. Harvard, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Yale, in New England, and Chicago,
Illinois and Wisconsin, in the north central region have been
particularly fortunate in the possession of younger men who
have acquired scientific reputation in the course of recent years.
The same institutions have been equally happy in not having
many men who have lost their positions on the thousand. This
double success cannot be attributed to chance, but must indi-
cate skill in the selection of men, or an environment favorable
to good work.'*
In this connection an extract from the report of the Presi-
dent of the University of Illinois to the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction in 1906 will be of interest:**^
"I think it will be generally agreed that the average scholar-
ship, and the experience and efSciency of the younger ap-
pointees in all the various faculties have been materially ele-
vated. There is general agreement that we have never had an
abler, better trained, or more experienced body of young instruc-
tors than are now at work in the University of Illinois. Condi-
tions, of course, are becoming more and more favorable for
bringing about such results. With the increase of the student
body it becomes necessary to enlarge the instructing corps, and
"American Men of Science, 2nd Edition, 1910, p. 572
""lU. School Beport, 1904-06, pp. 390-391
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with this increasing number of instructors, it becomes possible
to secure a wider range of ability and preparation. This makes
the University a more interesting place to work, and young men
who are looking forward to a scientific career are more willing
to come into it and remain a part of the staff for a longer
time than would otherwise be the case. As our equipment is in-
creased and as our libraries increase, the University becomes to
an increasing extent a center of scientific research and investi-
gation; and life in the University is increasingly attractive to
the best type of aspiring, progressive, highly trained scientists.
**Thus, if we have only one or two instructors in the depart-
ment of mathematics, it is scarcely possible to have more than
one or two specialties or lines of investigation represented; but
when we have fifteen or twenty, it is possible not only to get
men who can do well the elementary and required work in our
various courses, but each one of these men can be specially
trained in some particular line ; so that when we take the whole
body of instructors into consideration, all branches of mathe-
matical investigation may be fairly represented. The impor-
tance of this possibility in the development of a truly scientific
spirit and a truly scientific advance within the institution can
scarcely be overestimated. In the same way, if we have only
one or two instructors in the field of modem languages, we can
hardly have more than one or two lines of work represented by
adequately trained scholars, but when we have ten or twelve,
it becomes feasible to obtain, in selecting the personnel of such
a force, representatives for every line of investigation within
the great field of modem philology and literature.
*'No institution can lay any daim to the title, * university,'
unless it is a center of scientific activity which is spontaneous
in the members of its instructing corps—self activity prompted
by a divine thirst for increasing our knowledge.
"I have urged upon the faculties and upon the trustees with
all the earnestness of which I am capable that in the selection
of young men for the position of instructor, that is, the lowest
grade of our faculty positions, only those young men should
be selected who have it in them to be good teachers, capable
instructors and at the same time who have had the proper
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training and have within themsdves the ambition to become
investigators, research men, productive scholars, in the varioos
lines in which they are at work.
''There is no doubt that if this plan is adhered to closely,
systematically, continuously, for a generation, the Universily
of Illinois, if the State equips it properly with libraries and
apparatus, will become one of the great centers of learning in
the world, a credit to the people of the commonwealth, a source
of untold advantage to the culture and industry of this great
state.
The editor of the American Men of Science adds also:^^
^'Wisconsin and Illinois are the state universities which have
made the most notable progress .... The gain of almost
200 per cent at Illinois is in the main due to the departments
of chemistry and mathematics, to the heads of which the Uni-
versity was so wise as to call men of high scientific standing. ''
In 1917, the names of 82 members of the faculty of the
University of Illinois were found in the last edition (1910) of
that publication, and of these 25 were designated among the
thousand ''leading men of science." There has been, therefore,
within the last eleven years a gain of 19 names in the representa*
tion of the University among the first thousand — an increase of
317 per cent.
Books and Articles Published by the Cobfq of Instruction
During the fifteen years from May 1, 1904 to April 30,
1919, 6,768 books and articles were published by members of
the instructional and administrative staff of the University. The
table which follows will indicate the number published in each
year.*^
During recent years the publications have been listed under
four heads, namely: (1) Books; (2) Articles; (3) Book re-
views which are essentially original articles or contributions to
the subject matter of the book or article reviewed; (4) Book
reviews which are of the character of book notices. During the
greater part of the period, however, little distinction was made
"American Men of Science, 1910 ed., p. 58S
"Univ. Studies, Univ. of HL, 1904-1917
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between the various kinds of publications, and for those years
the flgares given in the ^'Total'' column are the ones of chief
importance. During the earlier years ''book notices" were gen-
erally omitted.
It should be noted that the difference between a ''book"
and an "article" is in many cases very slight — ^the distinction
resting upon the form in which the contribution appears rather
than upon any essential difference in the nature of the subject-
matter, in the treatment of the subject, or in the size of the
publication.
BOOKS AND AJEtTIOLES PUBLXSHED BY MEMBEB8 OF THE
TACULTY 1904-1919
Year
(May 1-April 80) Books Artielee
1904-05 20 158
1905-06 16 175
1906-07 21 221
1907-08 20 242
1908-09 18 280
1909-10 83 857
1910-11 88 881
1911-12 22 841
1912-18 15 287
191814 80 848
1914-15 89 475
1915-16 69 669
1916-17 51 498
1917-18 59 564
1918-19 39 542
Total 490 5,478
Book Book
Beviews Notices
Total
178
191
8
250
8
265
298
9
899
10
879
9
872
15
817
17
890
86
106
656
51
167
956
45
87
676
62
79
764
45
51
677
310
490
6,768
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CHAPTEB YI.
THE STUDENT BODY
When the University was first opened for the reception of
students, March 2, 1868, about fifty^ persons were enrolled.
During the term the number increased to 77. The first full
school year, beginning in the fall of 1868, showed a total of
128 students. For the next three years there was a large an-
nual increase in the number of students enrolled, but for the
two succeeding years the increase was very slight. A period
of fifteen years followed in which the number of students re-
mained practically stationary at about 400, although in 1883-4
as few as 330 were in attendance. In 1888-9 the number enrolled
was once more over 400, and from that time there has been
almost no year in which the number of students failed to exceed
that of the preceding year.
The following table^ gives the enrolment for each year since
the organization of the University. It will be noted that women
were first admitted in 1870-71, and that they have each year
represented about one-fifth of the total number of students en-
rolled.
TOTAL ENBOLMENT 1868-1920
Year Men Women Total
1868 (spring) 77 .. 77
1868-69 128 .. 128
1869-70 180 .. 180
1870-71 254 24 278
1871-72 828 53 381
1872-73, 326 74 400
1873-74 316 90 406
1874-75 ;... 285 , 88 373
1875-76 303 83 386
1876-77* 296 92 388
^Extract from Diary of President Gregory, p. 1
■Registrar's Beport, Univ. of HI., September 29, 1913, p. 24; supple-
mented by the statistics for the years 1914-17
'Figures from 1876-77 to 1910-11 include the preparatory department
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Year Men Women Total
1877-78 291 86 877
1878-79 318 98 416
1879-80 322 112 434
1880-81 299 80 379
1881-82 276 76 352
1882-83 290 92 882
1883-84 261 69 880
1884-85 292 70 862
1885-86 269 63 332
1886-87 289 54 348
1887-88 805 72 377
1888-89 346 72 418
1889-90 392 77 469
1890-91 444 75 519
1891-92 494 89 583
1892-93 610 104 714
1893-94 609 109 718
1894-95 673 187 810
1895-96 672 183 855
1896-97 865 194 1059
1897-98 1335 247 1582
1898-99 1492 332 1824
1899-1900 1747 478 2225
1900-01 2038 467 2505
190102 2884 598 2932
1902-03 2560 729 3289
1903-04 2872 720 8592
1904-05 3012 722 3734
1905-06 3266 825 4091
1906-07 3402 916 4318
1907-08 8752 994 4746
1908-09 4013 966 4979
1909-10 4118 1000 5118
1910-11* 4222 995 5217
1911-12 4194 1006 5200
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Tear Men Women Total
1912-13 4061 1026 5087
191314 4347 1192 6689
1914-15 4659 1297 5956
1915-16 4980 1457 6487
1916-17 5187 1641 6828
1917-18 3909 1681 5590
1918-19 5372 1785 7157
1919-20 6947 2261 9208
Two principal causes have been responsible for the large in-
crease in enrolment daring the past twenty years. These are,
first, the natural growth of the departments already in existence,
as the facilities of the University for offering a high grade of
instruction have become better known, and as the number and
quality of the high schools of the state advanced; and in the
second place, the acquisition of additional colleges and schools
and the organization of new departments by the University.
Thus, in May, 1896, the Chicago College of Pharmacy,
founded in 1859, became the School of Pharmacy of the Uni-
versity of Illinois.* In 1897 arrangements were concluded for
the affiliation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chi-
cago with the University, and the former institution became
known as the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois.^
In 1901 the property and good will of the Illinois School of
Dentistry in Chicago were transferred to the College of Medi-
cine and a School of Dentistry was organized by the University
as a department of the College of Medicine.^ In 1905 the School
of Dentistry became a separate college. The Colleges of Medicine
and Dentistry were discontinued on June 30, 1912, but were re-
opened in 1913 in February and October respectively. In 1897
the School of Library Economy which had been established in
1893 at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago was
transferred to the University and the Library School of the Uni-
versity was opened.^ The first summer session of the University
•Eept., Univ. of HI., 1896, p. 240
*Bept, Univ. of HI., 1898, p. 74; 1900, p. 247
■Eept, Univ. of HI., 1902, pp. 54-56
•Bept, Univ. of HI., 1898, pp. Ill, 192; Univ. of HI. Bui. VoL L No. 4.
Oct. 18, 1903, p. 3.
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was opened in June, 1894J In 1897 the department of music
was reorganized and made the School of Music with a separate
faculty and organization.® The School of Law was organized
in 1897. It became the College of Law in 1900.® In 1901 the
General Assembly made an appropriation of $6,000 per annum
for the establishment of ^'a school of social and political science
and industrial economics," and in accordance with this action
the Courses in Business Administration were organized. In
1915 these were erected into a separate College of Commerce
and Business Administration.*^ The School of Education was
established in 1905. In 1906 a department of railway engineer-
ing was created. In the following year it was reorganized as
the School of Railway Engineering and Administration. Grad-
uate work was undertaken as early as 1892. In 1907 the legis-
lature appropriated $50,000 for each of the next two years for
the support of the Graduate School, and the school was definitely
organized immediately, with an executive faculty. The College
of Literature and Arts and the College of Science were united
in 1913 to form the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.**
It will be noticed that there is a slight decrease in the number
of students enrolled in 1911-12, and a larger decrease for 1912-13.
The Academy connected with the University was discontinued in
June, 1911. During the preceding year 304 students had at-
tended the Academy. This loss more than offset the gain of 287
college students in the year 1911-12. The discontinuance of the
College of Dentistry during the year 1912-13, and the conse-
quent loss of the 125 students enrolled in that college, was re-
sponsible for the decrease of 113 in the total enrolment of the
University for 1912-13.
The enrolment was greatly affected by the entrance of the
country into the war, in 1917. The attendance fell from 6,828
in 1916-17 to 5,590 in 1917-18. This loss was offset in 1918-19
by the organization of the Students' Army Training Corps, and
the enrolment passed the 7,000 mark for the first time, making a
Tlept., Univ. of 111., 1894, pp. 198, 214, 234, 271.
•Sept., Univ. of lU., 1898, p. 125
•Eept., Univ. of lU., 1898, pp. 44, 72; Univ. of Dl. Begister, 1899-1900
**Eopt., Univ. of HI., 1916, p. 244; Laws of Ulinoia, 1901, p. 40
"Eept., Univ. of 111., 1914, p. 71
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gain of 28 per cent. This large increase, however, was only the
first wave of the flood, for in 1919-20 the total enrolment was
9,249, a gain of 2,092, or over 29 per cent, over the preceding
year, and of over 65 per cent over 1917-18. The increase dur-
ing the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920 was 5,515, or more than
157 per cent. The largest annual increase previous to 1919-20
was 10 per cent, made in 1907-08.
The following table exhibits the growth of each college and
school of the University from year to year for the fourteen years
from 1904 to 1920, as measured by the enrolment of students
in each.^*
>H7f. Begistrar'B Beport, Uniy. of Bl., September 29, 1913, pp. 28-31,
and subsequent Annual Begistera, Univ. of 111.
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The following table presents a comparison between the en-
rolment in the various colleges, schools and cnrricolams in
1903-04 and 1919-20.
ENBOLMENT BY COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND CUBBXCULUMS,
1903-4 AND 1919-20
Enrolment Inerease Pereent
College and Canieolam 1903-4 1919-20 1919-20 of increase
Liberal Arts and Sciences
General 492 1390 898 182
Journalism 147 147
Law Preparatory 131 131
Medical Preparatory 40 179 139 347
Household Science 25 284 259 1036
Chemistry 33 160 127 384
Chemical Engineering 23 256 233 . 1013
Total 631 2547 1916 803
Engineering
Architecture 75 120 45 60
Architectural Engineering 43 156 113 262
Ceramic Engineering 46 46
Civil Engineering 232 851 119 51
Electrical Engineering 172 455 283 164
Mechanical Engineering 219 528 309 141
Mining Engineering 61 61
Municipal and Sanitary Engineering 8 12 4 50
Railway Civil Engineering 3 10 7 233
Bailway Electrical Engineering 20 20
Bailway Mechanical Engineering 6 6
Gen. Begin. Physics 3 8
Unspecified 34 . . (34)*
Total 786 1768 982 124
Agriculture
General 291 1113 822 282
Household Science 17 102 85 500
Total 308 1215 907 294
Music 101 119 18 17
Commerce and Business Administration 41 1588 1547 8773
Education 87 87
Total, Undergraduates at Urbana.1849 7324 5475
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College and Curriealum 1903-04 1919-20 1919-20 of increase
Law 142 109 (33)* (23)»
Library School 79 34 (45)» (67)*
Graduate School 118 380 262 222
Total at Urbana, Winter Session.. 2188 7839* 5651 258
Summer Session 229 1314 1085 473
Total at Urbana during year 2417 9153 6736 278
Medicine (Chicago) 694 308 (386)' (56)'
Dentistry (Chicago) 163 196 33 20
Pharmacy (Chicago) 185 209 24 14
Total in Chicago 1042 713 (329) ' (32)'
Preparatory 257 .. (257)'
Total in University 3716 9866 6150 166
DupUcates to be deducted 124 617 493
Nkt Total FOB Ykab 3592 9249 5657 157
Attention has already been called to the fact that the total
gain in enrolment for the past sixteen years was over 157
per cent. From the preceding table it may be observed that
several divisions of the University show a much larger increase.
Thns, in the business courses, administered under the College
of Literature and Arts in 1903-04 but constituting a separate
College of Commerce and Business Administration in 1919-20,
there was a gain of 3,773 per cent. The enrolment in House-
hold Science, divided between the College of Agriculture and
the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, shows a total gain of
768 per cent. There was a gain of 1,013 per cent in the num-
ber enrolled in the curriculum in Chemical Engineering. There
was an increase of 473 per cent in the total enrolment in the
Summer Session, of 222 per cent in the Graduate School and
of 294 per cent in the College of Agriculture.
The divisions showing a loss are the Library School, and the
Colleges of Law and Medicine. In the majority of these divisions
^Decrease
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the loss may properly be attributed to an advancement of the
standards required for admission and for graduation.^ ^
It should be noted that the enrolment for the summer session
is not classified in the table according to the divisions of the
University. The total figure for the enrolment in various di-
visions would, of course, be considerably larger if such classifica-
tion were made. Thus, while the table shows an enrolment of
380 for the Graduate School for 1919-20 for the regular school
year, there were 170 graduate students enrolled in the summer
session, or a gross total of 550 for the year of 12 months, and
a net total of 466, excluding duplicates.
In the following table a summary is presented of the var-
ious degrees granted by the University from 1905 to 1919.
^A Btatement of the changes in standards is to be found later in this
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In the next table there is presented a comparison of the
number of degrees granted in the various colleges and schools
of the University in 1904 and in 1918.
DEOBEES GONFEBBED IN 1904 AND IN 1918
1904 1918
Degrees in the Graduate School
Master of Arts 10 52
Master of Science 2 83
Civil Engineer 2
Master of Architecture 1
Electrical Engineer 1
Architectural Engineer 1
Mechanical Engineer 2
Doctor of Philosophy 83
Total 14 128
Baccalaureate Degrees
A. B., College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 120 249
B. S., College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 81
B. L., College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 1
A.B., College of Commerce and Business Administration.... 38
B. S., College of Commerce and Business Administration. ... 17
B. S., College of Engineering 99 121
B. S., College of Agriculture 16 139
B. Mus., School of Music 6
Total 235 002
Degrees in Law
LL.B 89 5
Degrees in Library Science
B.L.S 80 12
Total, Colleges and Schools at Urbana 818 742
Degrees in Medicine
B.S 68
M.D 216 30
Total 216 98
Degrees in Dentistry
D.D.S 56 46
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DEGBEES CONFEBBED IN 1904 AND IN 1918
Degrees in Phannacj
PIlG 48 88
PlLa 4
Total 48 42
Total, Departments in Chicago 815 186
Total, All Departments 688 928
The total number of degrees granted in tlie undergraduate
colleges rose from 235 in 1904 to 602 (779)* in 1918, a gain of
367 (571), or over 156 (243) per cent. The professional schools,
on the other hand, all show a loss in the number of degrees con-
ferred. In 1904, 384 degrees were granted in Law, Library
Science, Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy — over 60 i)er cent
of the entire number granted by the University. In that year
the number granted in the Chicago Departments, 315, was only
three less than the total number granted in all the departments
at Urbana. In 1918 the number of degrees conferred in the
professional schools was 203 (220), or less than 22 (18) per cent
of the total number conferred by the University in that year.
This decrease is due in part to the much higher entrance re-
quirements prevailing during recent years, and in part to the
economic fact that the supply of professionally trained men
and women is likely to come in response to a demand — ^real or
supposed — for persons so equipped ; whereas the student in the
undergraduate college chooses his course largely with a view
of acquiring a general education, leaving his final choice of a
vocation to be made at a later time.
There was a steady increase in the number of degrees granted
in the Graduate School during the fourteen years from 1904
to 1918. However, the number of degrees granted to graduate
students dropped from 197 in 1917 to 123 in 1918, a loss of 74
or nearly 38 per cent. During the fourteen year period from
1904 to 1918, the total number increased from 14 in 1904 to
123 (197) in 1918, a gain of more than 778 (1,307) per cent
The degrees of Master of Arts and Master of Science were con-
*The figures in parenthesis are those for 1916-17.
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ferred on 10 persons and 2 persons, respectively, in 1904, but
in 1918 52 (87) persons were granted the degree of A. M. and
33 (59) that of M. S. In 1904 no person was granted the de-
gree of Doctor of Philosophy. In 1918 this degree was conferred
on 33 (36) persons. The degree was granted to a total of 241
persons during the fifteen years from 1905 to 1919.
The number of persons receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Arts was 249 (235) in 1918 as compared with 120 in 1904. The
number of graduates of the College of Engineering increased
from 99 to 121 (218), a gain of more than 22 (120) per cent
A remarkable gain is shown in the number of persons who
completed the curriculum of the College of Agriculture. One
hundred and thirty-nine (235) persons received the degree of
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1918 as against only 16
in 1904, an increase of over 768 (1,368) per cent.
The newly organized College of Commerce and Business Ad-
ministration presented 69 candidates for the Bachelor of Arts
degree in 1916, and 38 (73) in 1918, together with 17 (3) candi-
dates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in the latter year.
The total number of degrees granted by the Univendly in-
creased, with some degree of uniformity, from 633 in 1904, to
928 (1,223) in 1918— « total gain of 295 (590), or about 47
(93) per cent for the fourteen year period. The exceptionally
large number of degrees conferred in 1914 is partly to be ac-
counted for by the fact that at the 1914 commencement 45
students of former years who had completed the required amount
of work for a degree, but had failed to satisfy the technical re-
quirements in force at that time, were granted the appropriate
degrees. If this number be deducted from the total number
of degrees conferred in 1914, the number of degrees granted to
members of the dass of 1914 is 987.
It is perhaps worthy of note that the ratio of the number
of degrees granted in 1918 to the total number of persons in
attendance during the year 1917-18 is nearly the same as the
corresponding ratio in 1904 — 16.6 (17.9) per cent in 1918 as
compared with 17.6 per cent in the earlier year.
In December, 1916, the Board of Trustees approved a recom-
mendation of the Univendly Senate to the effect that thereafter
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degrees should be conferred four times a year — ^in Angtust, Octo-
ber and Febraary as well as in June. In consequence of tliis
action a student who completes his work at the end of a sum-
mer session or at the end of the first semester is not required
to wait until the following June for his degree.^^ Thirteen de-
grees were conferred in February, 1917, 11 in August and 37
in October in accordance with this provision. Such graduates
are ranked as members of the dass of the calendar year in
which their degrees are conferred.^*
In the four tables which follow, the distribution of degrees
conferred in 1904 and in 1918, according to the place of resi-
dence of the recipients is indicated.
GBOGBAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OP DEGEBES GRANTED IN
1904 AND IN 1918
Departments Departments
in Urbana in Ghieago Total
1904 1918 1904 1918 1904 1918
niinolB 272 522 175 108 447 630
States other than Dlinoifl 44 190 135 08 179 258
Insular Possessions of the U. 8. . . 1 . . 1
Foreign Ck>nntries 2 29 5 10 7 89
Total 318 742 815 186 688 928
PERCENTAGE OF DEGREES GRANTED TO STUDENTS FROM
ILLINOIS AND FROM OTHER STATES OR COUNTRIES
IN 1904 AND IN 1918
DIPABTMINTS IN UBBANA
1904 1918
Illinois 85% 70%
States other than IHinois 14 26
Insular possessions of the U. S.
Foreign Countries 1 4
100 100
*Min., Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of HL, 1916-18, p. 181
'fPhe degrees granted in February, August and October, 1917 are in-
cluded in the tables above with the other degrees conferred in that year
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lUEPABfniMNTS IN CHIOAQO
1904 1918
SHnoifl 55% 58%
States other than Illinois i3 87
Insalar possessioiiB of the U. S.
Foreign Ckiuntries 2 5
100 100
ALL DEPABTMINT8 OF THE UNIVEB8ITY
1904 1918
Illinois 71% 68%
States other than Illinois 28 28
Insular possessions of the U. S.
Foreign Ck>nntries 1 4
100 100
A number of facts of interest may be deduced from the
preceding tables. There has been a noteworthy increase in the
number of students from other states and countries who have
received degrees in the Urbana departments of the Universily.
In 1904, 85 per cent of the students graduating from the various
departments at Urbana were from Illinois, only 14 per cent
from outside states and 1 per cent from foreign countries. In
1918, 26 (25) per cent of the graduates were from other states
and 4 (4) per cent from foreign countries. Of degrees granted
to graduates of Chicago departments in 1904, but 2 per cent
were received by foreign students, while in 1918, 10 (9) degrees,
or 5 (5) per cent were received by students from foreign coun-
tries. Of the total number of degrees conferred by the Univer-
sily in 1918, 298 (371), or 32 (31) per cent, were granted to
students from other states or countries, as against 186, or 29
per cent in 1904.
The extent to which certain departments attracted and held
students from other states and from foreign countries may be
seen from the fact that in 1917, 16 out of 26 bachelor's degrees
granted in architecture, 11 out of the 31 in architectural en-
gineering, and 6 out of 10 in the Library School were conferred
on students from states other than Illinois. Of 10 bachelors'
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degrees in railway engineering, four were granted to stadents
of other states and two to stadents from foreign countries. In
the College of Commerce, 17 of the 76 bachelors' degrees granted
were conferred on stadents from other states, and 5 on stadents
from foreign coantries.
Of the 188 degrees granted by the Oradoate School in 1917,
only 88 were received by stadents from Illinois, while 100 de-
grees were given to stadents from other states, from our insalar
possessions, or from foreign coantries. In the departments of
botany, chemistry, classics, economics, mathematics, Gterman,
political science, Romance languages, transportation, zoology,
animal husbandry, dairy husbandry, civil engineering, theoreti-
cal and applied mechanics and mechanical engineering, half or
over half of the advanced degrees granted were conferred on
students not living in Illinois. In entomology, philosophy, bac-
teriology and railway engineering, all the higher degrees were
received by students from other states or from foreign countries.
It is evident from these figures that the work of the Uni-
versity of Illinois has become favorably known b^ond the
borders of the state during the past sixteen years. This fact
is shown even more clearly by the total enrolment of students
at the University during the year 1917-18, as presented in the
following table :
GEOGBAPmCAL DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS
1917-18
Urbana Chicago Total
niinoifl 3,756 367 4,123
States other than niinoifl 1,113 198 1,311
Insular possessions of the U. S.. . . 12 8 15
Foreign (Countries 126 15 Ul
Total 5,007 583 6,590
From the foregoing table it may be noted that 1,467 sta-
dents, or over 26 per cent of the total enrolment in the Uni-
versity for the year 1917-18, were from outside the state; and
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that of these, 141 came to the institation from foreign comitries
and 15 from the ingolar possessions of the United States.
Thirty-one foreign countries and four of the insular posses-
sions of the United States were represented at the Universily
during the year 1917-18 by one or more students each. For
several years the University of Illinois has provided an Adviser*
to Foreign Students to assist them in the solution of their special
problems and to facilitate the adjustment of their previous edu-
cational work with the courses offered at the University. It is
worthy of note, that the success which had attended this work
at the University of Illinois has resulted in the adoption of
the plan by a number of other leading universities.
The following tables exhibit the attendance of foreign stu-
dents at the University of Illinois.
FOBEIGN COUNTRIES BEPBE8ENTED BY STUDENTS IN THE
UNIVEBSITY OF ILLINOIS
1917-18
Ck>imti7
China . ..
Japan . ..
Brazil . ..
No. of
Students
.... 87
.... 21
... 13
India 11
Canada 10
Mexico
Greece 4
Bulgaria 4
Peru 4
Spain 8
Chile 8
Bnssia 2
Norway 2
Caba 2
Holland 2
No. of
Country Students
Germany 2
Nova Scotia 2
Austria
Jamaica
San Domingo
Italy
Hungary
Syria
Trinidad.
Argentina
Burmah
Denmark
Colombia
Servia
Hayti
Ireland
Total from Foreign Countries 141
*Title changed to Assistant Dean of Men for Foreign Students, 1918
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INSULAB POSSESSIONS OP THE UNITED STATES
(Including Canal Zone)
BiFBBSBNTED BY StUDKNTS, 1917-18
No. of No. of
CJonntry Students Ckmntry Students
Hawaii . 5 Porto Bieo 8
Philippines 7 Canal Zone 1
Total 15
Attendance of Individual Students in Successive Ybabs
The following table is of interest as indicating the extent to
which students drop out of college before the completion of their
courses.^*^ Although the figures shown are for but a single year,
the number of students involved is sufficiently large to make it
probable that the percentages found represent fairly the facts
relating to the attendance of students in any two successive
years.
THE UNDEBGBADUATE COLLEGES, THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC
AND THE COLLEGE OF LAW
PXBOINTAQIS OF STUDENTS GkaDUATID, BBTUBNSD, NOT BBTUBNID
(Students of 1911-12)
Total Grad- June Betnrned Not Bet 'd
1911- nated 1912 1912 1912
Colleges and Schools 12 No. Pet. No. Pet No. Pet
Literature and Arts 909 164 18.0 501 55.1 244 26.9
Science 393 64 16.3 256 65.1 73 18.6
Engineering 1,290 195 15.1 661 51.2 434 33.7
Agriculture 818 68 8.3 485 59.2 265 32.5
Music 82 2 2.5 47 57.3 33 40.2
Law 122 26 21.3 84 68.8 12 9.»
Totals 3,614 519 14.4 2,034 56.2 1,061" 29.4
It will be noticed that there is a considerable difference in
the case of the various colleges in the proportion of students
who leave before completing their work, ranging from less than
ten per cent for the College of Law to over forty per cent for
the School of Music.
'rFrom Beport of Begistrar, Univ. of HI., September 29, 1913, p. 22
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Occupations op Parents op Students
From the following table it will be seen that the student
body of the University is composed of young men and young
women whose parents are engaged in occupations of the most
varied character.^® Here again the figures presented are for
a single year, 1912-13, but it is not probable that the year
upon which the study was made was exceptional in the facts
pertaining to the occupations followed by the parents of the
students of this Universily.
OCCUPATIONS OP STUDENTS' PABENTS AND GUABDIANS—
Undebqbaouati Students at Ukbana, 1912-13
L.A. li-
AS. Eng. Agr. Musie Law brary Total
Professions (the minis trj,
medicine, the law, teaching,
the army and navy) 204 99 98 17 27 4 449
Sdentifie Professions (ceram-
ists, chemists, engineers,
etc) 45 71 18 .. 4 2 140
Artistic Professions (archi-
tects, artists, authors, etc.) 9 23 8 . . . . 1 41
(Government Service (United
States, state, countj, citj) 41 37 18 1 4 1 108
Business
Manufacturing 53 57 12 1 6 . . 129
Mercantile 300 228 117 17 15 3 680
Business Managers 50 75 27 4 6 .. 102
Financial and semi-legal
(abstracter, banker, bro-
ker, cashier, real estate
dealer, etc) 87 88 58 10 11 2 251
Bailroading 35 35 16 2 4 1 93
Agriculturists 301 142 409 20 27 10 909
Skilled Laborers 76 120 35 6 6 1 244
Unskilled Laborers 27 43 14 1 6 1 92
Miscellaneous 73 71 36 4 2 3 189
Betired or "no occupation" 20 18 7 .. 2 2 49
Occupation not given 53 58 6 5 6 5 133
Total 1,374 1,160 879 88 126 36 3,668
"Beport of Begistrar, Univ. of HL, September 29, 1913, p. 78
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It is perhaps worthy of note that the largest nnmber of
young men and yonng women were from the farm, and that
next in order are the sons and the daughters of men engaged
in merchantile business, the professions, financial and semi-
legal business, and as skilled laborers. The wide range of occu-
pations makes it dear that the University is an institution of
the whole state, serving all classes of its citizens.
Entrance BsginKEifENTS
In the course of the past sixteen years the requirements for
admission have been raised in the case of each of the various
colleges and schools of the University.^* The following table with
the accompanying notes indicates the extent to which the re-
quirements have been advanced in each instance.
The changes made in the last sixteen years in the require-
ments for entrance to the University may be summarized as
follows :
For admission to the colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Engineering and Agriculture, and the School of Music fifteen
units are now required, as against thirteen and one-third units
required in 1904.
The requirements for admission to the College of Commerce
and Business Administration, organized as a separate college
in 1915, have from the outset been 15 units.
For admission to the College of Law 131^ units were re-
quired in 1904. At the present time, in addition to 15 entrance
units, two years of college work are required for entrance to
the three-year course, and one year of college work for entrance
to the four-year course.
Three years of college work were required in 1904 and until
1911 for admission to the Library School. Since 1911 the pos-
session of a bachelor's degree has been necessary to secure ad-
mission as a candidate for the degree in library science.
In 1904, 13% units were required for entrance to the College
of Medicine. For 1913-14, 15 entrance units and the completion
*«Cf. Univ. of HI. Annual Register, ld04 to 1917; Repte., Univ. of HI.,
1904 to 1916; Min., Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of HI., 1916-18
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ENTBANCE BEQUIBEMENTS 1904-1920
UNITB BlQUIBXD FOB ADMISSION TO THB VARIOUS Ck>LLBCT8 AND SCHOOLS
OF THB UNIVBBSITY
Music
Ti.A.ftS.
Eng'g
Agile.
Pharmacy
Year
Law
Library
School
Medi-
eine
Dentistry
Ph.G.
Curricu-
Ph. a
Curri-
Com.*
lum
culum
1904-6
13%
13%
98hr8.
col. credits
13%
lyr.Ks.
gram.8cb.
course
4
1905-6
14
14
98 bis.
coL credits
14
2yrs.b.s.
gram.scb.
course
• •
1906-7
14
14
98 bis.
col. ciedits
14
b.B.
course
gram.sch.
course
• •
1907-8
14
14*
98 bis.
col. ciedits
14
b.s.
course
gram.sch.
course
••
1908-9
15
15«
98 bn.
col. credits
15
15
lyr.b.s.
15
1909-10
15
15«
98 bis.
col. credits
15
15
lyr. b.8.
15
191011
16
15«
98 bis.
col. credits
15
15
lyr. b.B.
15
1911-12
15
lyr.
college
Bach^or's
degree
15
15
1 yr. h. 8.
15
191213
16
lyr.
college
Bachelor's
degree
15
"■*
lyr.b.s.
15
1913-14
16
lyr.
college
Bachelor's
degree
lyr.
coL
15
1 yr. b. 8.
15
1914-15
15
lyr.
Bachelor's
2 yrs.
15
2 yrs. ac
15
college
degree
coL
b.8.
191616
15
2 yrs.
Bachelor's
2 yrs.
15
2 yrs. ac
15
college
degree
coL
b.8.
1916-17
15
2 yrs.
college
Bachelor's
degree
2 yrs.
coL
15
15
15
1917-18*
16
lor2y8.
college*
Bachelor's
degree
2 yrs.
coL
15
15
15
^' After the first of September, 1907, the degree of LL.B. will be
conferred only upon students, who, before the academic year in which they
receive it, have satisfactorily completed a full year's work in the College
of Literature and Arts or the College of Science, or in the corresponding
department of another university or college of recognized standing, or
to students who have attained in the course which they present for the
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of one year of college work were required. Since 1914-15, two
years of college work have been prerequisite.
The entrance requirements for the College of Dentistry have
advanced from one year of high school work to a credit of
15 units.
In 1904 only the completion of a grammar school course was
required for admission to the School of Pharmacy. From 1908
to 1913, one year of high school work was required for enrol-
ment as a candidate for the degree of Graduate of Pharmacy.
For 1914-15 the requirements for entrance to the curriculum
leading to that degree were fixed as two years' work in an ac-
credited high school. Since 1916, 15 units have been required.
For admission to the curriculum leading to the degree of Phar-
maceutical Chemist, 15 units have been required since the organ-
ization of this curriculum in 1908.
degree an average grade of 85 on the scale of 100." — Register, Univ. of
HL, 1906-07, p. 167.
The above paragraph (note 1) is stated more explicitly in the an-
nouncements published the next year, as follows: "Candidates for tiie
degree of Bachelor of Laws who register in the Ck>llege of Law after
February 1, 1908, in addition to the above law credits, will be required to
present credits for one full year's work in the Ck>llege of Literature and
Arts or the College of Science, or the corresponding department of another
University or college of recognized standing; or attain in the law courses
which they present for the degree an average grade of 85 on the scale
of 100. This rule does not apply to meml^rs of the Illinois Ba^ who
are admitted to the third year class and may receive the degree of Bachelor
of Laws ui>on satisfactory completion of the work of that year. ' ' — ^Register,
Univ. of ni., 1907-08, p. 171.
These provisions appear also in the Registers for 1908-09 (p. 177) and
1909-10 (p. 206).
*The requirements for 1919-20 were the same as for 1917-18.
^On June 7, 1917, the Board of Trustees adopted a recommendation
of the University Senate, that in addition to the present three-year curri-
culum in law, with the admission requirement of sixty hours of college
credit, a four-year curriculum in law be established: the admission require-
ments of the four-year curriculum to be matriculation and thirty hours'
credit in a college of this University, or the equivalent. On June 25, a
second recommendation was adopted, that students transferring from other
institutions who may fall short not to exceed five hours of credit by transfer
may be admitted to the three-year curriculum as conditioned students; such
conditions to be made up before the beginning of the student 's second year
in the college. — ^Min. Board of Trustees, Univ. of HI., 1916-18, pp. 336, 390.
"The College of Commerce was not organized as a separate college until
1915. The curriculum leading to the degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist was
not established until 1908. The College of Dentistry was not operated dur-
ing the year 1912-13.
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The state law providing for the organization of the Univer-
sity stipulated that no stadent should be admitted to instruction
in any of the departments of the University who should not have
attained to the age of 15 years.»> On March 13, 1894, in ao-
cordance with a recommendation of the faculty, transmitted to
the Board of Trustees by Acting President Burrill, and a favor-
able recommendation of the Board's committee on instruction,
the Board voted that no person under 16 years of age should
thereafter be admitted to the University.^^ In addition to this
regulation, which is still in effect^ further restrictions have been
placed upon prospective matriculants in certain departments
of the University.
The College of Law, from its organization in 1897'* untU
1911 admitted only students who were at least 18 years of age.
Since 1911, when a year of college work was added to the re-
quirements for admission to that college, the minimum age limit
of 18 years has been removed.
The College of Dentistry has since 1913 admitted only stu-
dents 18 years of age or over. Thruout the period since its
organization as a department of the University of Illinois; that
is, since 1901, it has conferred the degree of D.D.S. only upon
students who were at least 21 years of age. Inasmuch as the
course in the College of Dentistry covers three years' woi*, this
requirement is practically, though not absolutely, equivalent to
a minimum of 18 years for admission.
From 1897 to 1905 the College of Medicine required a mini-
mum of 21 years for eligibility for a degree from that college,
but this requirement has not since been made.
From 1896 to 1906 a minimum of 16 years of age was required
for entrance to the School of Pharmacy. In 1907 the minimum
was raised to 17 years. The degree of Graduate in Pharmacy
is given only to. candidates who have attained the age of 21
years. Students who complete the curriculum leading to this
degree at an earlier age are granted the degree upon their reach-
ing the age required.
"Eept, Univ. of lU., 1869, p. 7, see. 8
*Eept., Univ. of lU., 1894, pp. 220, 229
»Cf . Univ. of HL Begiflter 1897-98, p. 142
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CHAPTER Vn
STXJDENT ORGANIZATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Within recent years the growth in numbers of the student
body has resulted in a wider range of interests and a marked
increase in the number and variety of student organizations.
A history of sixteen years of a university's existence would
be incomplete without an attempt to enumerate at least a part
of the many outside interests which add to the complexity of
student life at a large institution.
It should be observed that a considerable part of such activ-
ities are closely related to the daily required work of the stu-
dent. Thus athletic contests, whether between classes or be-
tween different institutions, are in the nature of either a
physical training drill or a test of the extent to which the
competing athletes have developed by following the required
rules of physical training. Inter-coUegiate debates and oratori-
cal contests likewise give some evidence of the faithfulness with
which the contestants have applied themselves to courses in
public speaking, logic, English, sociology, political science, his-
tory, and in other fields.
Of the various organizations, some result from the desire
of a number of persons having a common interest to unite
for the purpose of informal discussion and study in a particu-
lar field. Others, especially the fraternities and sororities,
are a natural development from the earlier informal groups
which boarded at the same table or found rooms under the
same roof.
Classes of Organizations
The student organizations are of various kinds, societies of
a social nature being perhaps the most numerous. Others
may be classified as athletic, literary and scientific, dramatic,
musical, religious, honorary and professional, national and sec-
tional, general and miscellaneous. The purposes of many of
these societies are, however, broader than this classification
would suggest
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LlTERABY AND SCIENTIFlO
Of the organizations formed for literary purposes the most
comprehensive are the Adelphie, Philomathean and Ionian soci-
eties for men and the Alethenai, lUiola, Athenian, Gregorian
and Jamesonian for women. These meet weekly for programs
which include oratory, debates, declamations, extemporaneous
speaking, and music. Each of the men's societies, in conjunction
with one of the women's societies, presents a play annually.
The Star Course, a series of entertainments including addresses,
concerts and dramatic performances, is conducted under the
direction of the Adelphic and Philomathean societies. Of the
eight societies mentioned, four — ^the Ionian, Athenian, Oregor-
ian and Jamesonian — ^were organized during the last sixteen
years.
Among the societies organized by students for literary and
scientific purposes are to be included a considerable number
which have been established in the different colleges of the Uni-
versity to carry on outside work of a literary, scientific, or
technical nature auxiliary to the work of various departments
of that college. Among these are the following t^
In the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences : The Botanical
Club, the Celtic Club, le Cerde Francois, el CircvUo Esponol,
the Chemical Club, the University of Illinois Section of the
American Chemical Society, the Classical Club, der DeutscJte
Verein, the English Journal Club, the Geological Journal Club,
Hexapoeda, the History Club, the Mathematical Club, the
Oratorical Association, the Pen and Brush Club, the Philological
Club, the Political Science Club, the Psychology Club, the Ro-
mance Journal Club, Heimskringla (Scandinavian), the Zoology
aub, the Ben Franklin Club.
In the College of Commerce and Business Administration:
The Commercial Club.
In the College of Engineering: The Architectural Club, the
Ceramics Engineering Society, the Student Branch of the Civil
Engineering Society, the Electrical Engineering Society, the
Urbana Section of the American Institute of Electrical
nJniv. of HL Annual Begiater, 1919-20, p. 101
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Engineers, the Student Branch of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, the Student Branch of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers, the Physics Colloquium, the
Railway Club.
In the College of Agriculture: The Agricultural Club, the
Horticultural Club, the Household Science Club, the Landscape
Gardeners' Club, the Hoof and Horn Club, the Soils Research
Club.
In the College of Law : Inns of Court
In the School of Music : The University Choral and Orches-
tral Society, the University Qlee and Mandolin Club, the
University Military Band, the University Women's Glee Club,
the University Choristers.
In the Graduate School : The Graduate Club.
In the Library School : The Library Club.
Of the organizations auxiliary to the courses of study, about
half were formed prior to 1904 and the others since that year.
Many of the organizations which were in existence in 1904
have shown a marked growth during this period. Noteworthy
among these is the Military Band, which consisted of 39 men
in 1904. In 1917 the total enrolment of the First Regiment
Band, the Second Regiment Band, the reserve band, and the
trumpet corps was over 205.
Reuoious
Leadership in the religious activities of the University is
taken by the Young Men's and the Young Women's Christian
Associations. During the last sixteen years each has erected
a substantial building with dormitories, parlors, game rooms,
libraries, cafeteria and dining rooms, assembly rooms, etc. The
membership of the Young Men's Christian Association showed
a marked increase during this period, the maximum number
of members being enrolled in 1913-14. In that year the Associa-
tion had 1,066 members, said to be the largest paid membership
of any Student Young Men's Christian Association in the world.
During the same period the membership of the Young Women's
Christian Association increased from 360 to 516. In 1916-17
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there were 473 young women enrolled in voluntary Bible study
classes and 75 in the study of missions and social service.
Within recent years ten leading religious denominations have
made special efforts to provide facilities for the accommodation
of the students of the University. The majority of these em-
ploy one or more student pastors and have either already
erected or are planning to erect student churches in the im-
mediate vicinity of the University. In addition, the Episcopal,
Presbyterian, Congregational and Christian Churches main-
tain each a dormitory for the accommodation of young women.
In connection with the Trinity Methodist Church a group of
buildings to cost $500,000 is being erected by the Methodists
of the state to serve as a social and religious center for all
students of this denomination.
The Bushnell Guild of the Congregational Church, the
Bethany Circle of the Christian Church, the Christian Science
Society, and the Seymour League (Episcopalian), all of recent
origin, are four of a large number of young people's religious
societies the membership of which is chiefly made up of students
of the University. The Geneva Club is composed of those
who have been in attendance at the Geneva T. W. C. A. Con-
ferences. The Catholic Students' Association is made up of
students of the Boman Catholic faith. The Student Volunteers
at the University are regularly enrolled in the Student Volun-
teer Band. The Menorah Society is a local branch of the
National Menorah Society, an organization of Jewish students
having for its aim the study of Hebrew ideals, history and
culture.
Drahatio
Three student organizations now exist at the University for
the purpose of fostering dramatic interests, namely the Mask
and Bauble Club, the Pierrots, and the Illinois Drama Federa-
tion. All of these have been founded during the last sixteen
years. The first two named plan to present one or more plays
annually. The third organization is active in promoting and
correlating the various dramatic interests at the University,
and seeks especially to bring about the ultimate erection of a
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campus theater. Also the literary societies for many years
presented a play. Various programs are given by other organ-
izations in the course of each year, such as the Post Exam
Jubilee and the Oirls' Stunt Show, consisting of a series of
farces or similarly improvised dramatic sketches.
Athletio
The athletic interests of the University are cared for by
the Athletic Association, a mixed faculty and student organ-
ization. The real power of the Association rests with its Board
of Control, consisting of three members of the faculty, three
alumni who are not members of the corps of instruction, the
director of athletics, and the regular ofScers of the Association,
namely, the president, secretary-treasurer, and the managers of
the football, track and baseball teams.
For the last few years vigorous attempts have been made
to promote athletic activity among the entire student body. The
movement has met with increasing success due to a greater
interest in inter-class, inter-society and inter-fraternity contests,
or briefly intra-mural athletics. However, the most notable
progress was made in the spring of 1918, when the coaching
staff of the University of Illinois introduced a new form of
intercollegiate competition know as mass athletics. The first
contest was held on May 25, and was participated in by Iowa,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Notre Dame and Illinois. Each school
conducted its own athletic meet upon the home field and under
the direction of local oflScials. All bona fide undergraduate
students, regardless of academic standing, were eligible to com-
pete in any or all events, and a system of scoring was devised
whereby each competitor's efforts counted toward the mass
score of the institution no matter how poor his performance
might be. This new form of activity promises to develop in
a more extensive way than ever before the competitive instinct
and to insure a more universal participation in intercollegiate
athletics by the entire student body. In the year 1919-20, regu-
lar schedules were maintained in baseball, basket-ball, track,
football, and swimming. The numbers taking part in these
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different sports were as follows: Basket-ball 530, baseball 500,
track 400, football 75, and swimming 300.
Intercollegiate competition is maintained with each of the
other universities of the Western Conference, namely, Chicago,
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio, Pur-
due and Wisconsin. Practise games are held annually with
smaller colleges also. It is the general belief at the University
of Illinois that intercollegiate athletics can be maintained with-
out interference with the intellectual interests of the general
student body; while so far as the contestants themselves are
concerned, whatever has been acquired in the way of physical
powers and moral training finds its surest test in the intercolle-
giate game.
Illinois athletes made an enviable record during the years
from 1904 to 1920. Of 116 football games played, Illinois won
82, lost 26 and tied in 8. In 1910 Illinois not only won every
game played but was not scored on thruout the season. Illinois
won the Conference football championship in 1910, 1914, 1918,
and 1919, and tied for first place with Minnesota in 1915. From
1905 to 1920, 221 games of baseball were played, of which Illinois
won 161 and lost 55, while five games resulted in a tie. The Con-
ference championship in baseball was won by Illinois in 1907,
1908, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, and 1916, and in 1909 Illinois
tied with Purdue for the championship. Of 214 games of bas-
ket-ball played, Illinois won 128 and lost 86. In the season of
1914-15 Illinois won the Conference championship in basket-
ball, not losing a game. Illinois tied with Northwestern for
second place in 1916, and with Minnesota for the Conference
championship in 1917. Illinois track teams won 37 outdoor
dual meets from 1905 to 1920, losing 7 and tying 1. They
won 26 indoor dual meets, lost 6 and tied 1. They won the
Conference outdoor meet four times, and in two other years
led the Conference universities when an outside team won first
place. Of 9 Conference indoor meets held, Illinois won 4 and
lost another by one-fourth of a point. Illinois teams won the
St. Louis annual meet in 1909, the one-mile championship of
America in the Pennsylvania Belay Races in 1913, the two-
mile championship of America in the same series in 1914, the
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one-mile relay in the Missouri Valley Ck)nference in 1913, first
place in the Drake Belay Meet in 1914, and the mile relay in
the First Regiment Interscholastic Belay Baces in Chicago in
1914.
The activity of Illinois athletes in other branches of sports
is deserving of mention. Swimming and water polo teams have
been maintained for several years. In 1913 the Illinois swim-
ming team defeated Chicago and Wisconsin in dual meets and
also won the Conference championship. A gymnasium team,
a wrestling team, a fencing team, a tennis team and a golf team
are all maintained and all have won honors for Illinois in inter-
collegiate contests. In the Conference fencing meet in 1914,
Illinois not only won the championship, but won first place in
every event
A Women's Athletic Association exists at the Univendly,
membership in which is secured by winning a certain number
of points in physical training courses and athletic activities.
The sports promoted by the Association include archery, tennis,
hockey, basketball, volley ball, German ball, baseball, quoits
and swimming.
Fbatebnities and Sorobities
In 1904, 12 national Greek letter social fraternities for men
were represented by chapters in the Urbana departments of
the University of Illinois. In 1920 the number had increased
to 39. During the same period the number of national soror-
ities increased from 5 to 14. In addition to these organizations
there are several local fraternities and sororities and a number
of professional and honorary Greek letter fraternities whose
objects are to some extent social in nature.
The various social organizations at the University of Illi-
nois are as follows :
National social fraternities: at Urbana-Champaign — ^Delta
Tau Delta, Sigma Chi, Kappa Sigma, Phi Eappa Sigma, Phi
Delta Theta, Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Gamma Delta, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Nu, Phi Eappa Psi, Delta
Eappa Epsilon, Delta Upsilon, Acacia, Theta Delta Chi, Sigma
Pi, Alpha Sigma Phi, Zeta Psi, Phi Sigma Eappa, Psi Upsilon,
Alpha Delta Phi, Tau Eappa Epsilon, Phi Eappa, Chi Phi,
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Chi Psi, Zeta Beta Tau, Lambda Chi Alpha, Beta Phi, Theta
Chi, Alpha Chi Kho, Phi Eappa Tan, Eappa Alpha Psi, Pi
Eappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alpha Gamma Bho, Alpha
Eappa Psi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Theta Delta Sigma, Phi Eappa
Tan, Pi Eappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Phi Epsilon,
Sigma Phi Sigma, Delta Phi; at Chicago— Nn Sigma Nn, Phi
Bho Sigma, Alpha Eappa Eappa, Phi Beta Pi, Eappa Psi, Delta
Sigma Delta, Psi Omega, Xi Psi Phi.
National sororities: E[appa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi,
Eappa Eappa Gamma, Alpha Chi Omega, Chi Omega, Alpha
Xi Delta, Sigma Eappa, Delta Gamma, Alpha Omicron Pi,
Achoth, Alpha Delta Pi, Gamma Phi Beta, Alpha Gamma
Delta, Delta Alpha Omega.
Local social fraternities: Chi Beta, Ilns, Acanthus, Beta
Upsilon, Pi Pi Bho, Beta Pi, Annbis.
Local social sororities: Chi Theta.
Inter-fraternity organizations: Pan Hellenic Council (men),
Pan Hellenic Association (women). Skull and Crescent (sopho-
more men), Yo Ma (sophomore women), En Elnx Elan (junior
men).
Colored men's fraternities, national: Eappa Alpha Psi,
Alpha Phi Alpha.
Colored women's sorority, national: Alpha Eappa Alpha.
Honorary and Professional
A considerable number of Honorary and Professional Soci-
eties exist at the University of Illinois, having for their object
the recognition and encouragement of high scholarship.
A certain number of the members standing highest in
scholarship of the senior class and from four to six members
of the junior class in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
are each year elected to membership in Phi Beta Eappa. Sim-
ilarly members of the senior class and graduate students who
give promise of marked ability in scientific investigation are
elected annually to membership in Sigma Xi.
Other Honorary and Professional societies, more limited in
scope than the two foregoing, are : Phi Lambda Upsilon, Chem-
istry; Tau Beta Pi, Engineering; Phi Delta Phi, Law; Alpha
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Zeta, Agricnltore; Eta Eappa Na, Electrical Engineering;
Order of Coif, Law; Phi Alpha Delta, Law; Delta Sigma Rho,
Oratorical; Triangle, Civil Engineering; Alpha Oamma Rho,
Agricnltore; Alpha Chi Sigma, Chemistry; Oamma Alpha,
Scientific; Scarab, Architectural; Beta Oamma Sigma, Com-
mercial; Sigma Delta Chi, Journalistic; Areas, Architectural;
Mu Kappa Alpha, Musical; Alpha Eappa Psi, Commercial;
Sigma Tau, Engineering; Alpha Delta Sigma, Advertising;
Farm House, Agricultural; Omicron Nu, Household Science;
Oraphomen, Journalistic; U. L. A. S., Landscape (hardening;
Eeramos, Ceramics; Psi Mu, Architectural; Medui, pre-Medi-
cal; Pi Tau Sigma, Mechanical Engineering; Phi Delta Eappa,
Educational; Alpha Rho Chi, Architectural; (Gargoyle, Archi-
tectural; Theta Tau, Engineering; Alpha Theta Chi, Chemis-
try; Phi Eta, Oraduate; Matrix, Journalistic; Scabbard and
Blade, Military; Eappa Delta Chi, EducationaL
To this list should be added Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma
Mu Rho, Medical; Mawanda, men's honorary senior society;
Phi Delta Psi, women's honorary senior society; Sachem, men's
junior society; Tribe of Illini, **I" men; Comitatus, Demo-
cratic Club; and Lambda Epsilon Phi, Republican Club.
National and State
Among clubs based upon national, state or sectional interests
are to be included the Chinese Students' Club, Japanese, Latino-
American, Polonia (Polish), Nalanda (Hindustani), Dixie,
Easterners, Egyptian, Normal, Arkansas, Eansas, Culver,
Shomeez (inter-fraternity Missouri Club), H. H. (Indiana),
North Atlantic and the Cosmopolitan Club (an organization of
foreign students of various nationalities).
MiSCELLANBOXTB
There remains a number of societies existing for various
purposes.^ The Alumni Association maintains an ofSce at the
University and publishes the Alumni Quarterly and Fortnightly
Notes. The Students' Union, organized in 1909, has for its
purpose the promotion of college spirit and the development
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of good fellowship among all the students of the University.
The Union elects annually a Student Council, which takes
charge of certain student activities. The Woman's League was
organized to further the spirit of unity among the women of
the University and to be a medium for the maintenance of high
social standards. The League manages a loan fund, supports
a room in the Bumham hospital and provides the magazines
for the Woman's Building.
The Students' Hospital Association is a voluntary mutual
benefit organization whose purpose is to provide hospital care
for its members in the event of illness. Other organizations
are the Lincoln League, Ivrim, The Eomenian Society, Motor-
cycle Club, Sewanee Circle, Scribbler's Club, Rifle Club, Coun-
try Life Club, and Intercollegiate Prohibition Association.
In addition to the organizations already mentioned there
exist also the four class organizations, each of which has its
ofScers and its committees to take charge of the various func-
tions given by the class in the course of the year.
Student AonvrnES
A large number of meetings, entertainments and contests
occur in the course of each year as a natural result of the ex-
istence of the various student organizations. Some of these
are of so general interest as to become at the time of their occur-
rence the focus of attention of the entire student body.
HOME-COHINa
The annual fall Home-Coming was established in 1910. The
idea met with great favor from the first both with alumni and
with the students. The number and variety of events occur-
ring during the two days of Home-Coming may be seen from
the program of 1916, which was as follows:
AI4UMNI HOME-COHINO, 1916
Friday Afternoon and Evening, November 17
1 :30 Parade of the Senior Hobo Band to Illinois Field.
2:30 Class Championship Football Game, Illinois Field.
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7 :00 Band Concert and Mass Meeting, Auditorium, Old **I"
men to occupy seats on the platform at the mass
meeting.
8:15 Alumni Smoker. Showing of University film **Pro
Patria," Gymnasium Annex.
8:15 Mask and Bauble Play, "A Pair of Sixes,'' Illinois
Theater.
8 :45 All-Illinois Dance, given by Illinois Union, College HalL
Saturday Morning, November 18
8 :30 B[ite-flying Contest on Military Field, south of Armory.
9:30 Belay Bace, teams representing various student organ-
izations, Illinois Field.
10:00 Cross-Country Bace, beginning and ending on Illinois
Field.
Saturday Afternoon and Evening
2:00 Football, Illinois vs. Chicago, Illinois Field.
4:30 Alumni Bound-up in Gymnasium Annex.
4:30 Woman's League Tea, Woman's Building.
8:15 Mask and Bauble Play, **A Pair of Sixes," Illinois
Theater.
8:15 All Illinois Dance, given by the Illinois Union, Gym-
nasium Annex.
Sunday Afternoon, November 19
4:00 Organ Becital, Auditorium. Program by Director Erb
of the School of Music.
iNTEBSCHOLASnO
In 1893 the high schools of the state were invited to send
representatives to compete in a track and field meet. This
was the beginning of the Interscholastic Meet, one of the most
important of the year's series of sports. Other events have
been added to the original contest until the festivities now con-
tinue for a part of three days. A representative program,
that of 1916, was as follows:
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3:30 p.m.
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Thursday, May 11
5:30 p.m. May Day Festival, Illinois Field.
8:00 p.m. Girls' Stunt Show, Auditorium.
Friday, May 12
Interscholastic Gk)lf Preliminaries.
Interscholastic Tennis Preliminaries.
Baseball, Chicago vs. Illinois.
Track Meet, Chicago vs. Illinois.
Preliminary Track Events, Class B.
Finals, Inter-fraternity Belay.
Illinois Union Open House; inspection tour thru
campus and buildings.
Concert, University Military Band, South Campus.
Interscholastic Oratorical Contest, Auditorium.
Concert, University Glee Club, Illinois Theater.
Saturday, May 13
9:00 a.m. Interscholastic Track and Field Meet, Illinois
Field.
Interscholastic Qolt Finals.
Interscholastic Tennis Finals.
Parade of University Brigade, Military Field.
Baseball, Indiana vs. Illinois.
Presentation of Medals to Visiting Athletes, Tribe
of Illini, Gymnasium Annex.
Interscholastic Circus, Illinois Field.
Cadet Hop, Gymnasium Annex.
On each of the three days there were held also an Exhibit
of Student Work of the Department of Art and Design, in
University Hall, and a Public School Art Exhibit, in the Uni-
versity Chapel, from 8 :00 a.m. to 6 :00 p.m.
In 1916 about 675 athletes competed in the Interscholastic
meet, representing 98 high schools and academies. To make
competition on a fair basis possible, high schools are placed in
Class A or Class B according as their enrolment exceeds or does
not exceed 400 students. A third class, C, is made up of
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academies in Illinois, and of high schools and academies from
outside the state. The contests of the three classes are held
separately.
Oratory and Debate
As in the majority of our educational institutions, forensic
activities have never been given the full support of the student
body at Illinois. Within the past five years, however, the
increasing success of Illinois orators and debators has created
a much more general interest in the various public speaking
contests in which students of the University have participated-
Illinois has been a member of the Northern Oratorical
League since 1909, in which it is associated with Michigan, Wis-
consin, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern and Oberlin. The Uni-
versity participates regularly also in the Annual Peace Oratori-
cal Contest of the State of Illinois, the winner of which com-
petes in an interstate contest with the representatives of the
states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana. Illinois won
first place in the Northern Oratorical League in 1914, and sec-
ond in 1915. The Illinois representative ranked first in 191&
in the State peace contest, and won second place in the Inter-
state.
Illinois is associated with two groups of state universities
in debate. The Mid-West Debating League is composed of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, while Iowa, Minnesota and
Illinois constitute the I. M. I. Debating League. The contests
conducted by the former organization are held in the spring of
each year, the others occurring in December.
For the last sixteen years as a whole, Illinois has been
rather more successful in oratory than in debate.
Illinois won second place in the Interstate Oratorical Con-
test in 1905 and 1907, her competitors being Michigan, Wis-
consin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Enox and Chicago. She won
first place in the First State Equal Suffrage contest in 1908.
She won third place in the Northern Oratorical League in 1911
and 1917; second place in 1910, 1915, 1916, and 1918; and
first place in 1914. In the Annual State Peace Contest, Illi-
nois won second place in 1914 and 1917, and first place in
1915 and 1916.
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Illinois' best years in debate during the sixteen-year period
were in 1904-05, when she won both debates of the year, defeat-
ing Indiana and Missouri; 1909-10, when Iowa, Ohio and
Indiana were each defeated, Wisconsin alone registering a vic-
tory over Illinois; in 1916-17, when Illinois debaters by
defeating the representatives of Iowa, Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin won the championship of the I. M. I. League and tied for
the championship of the Mid-West League; and in 1917-18,
when they won for the first time the championship of both
Leagues in the same year. On the other hand, Illinois lost all
of her four debates in 1912-13, and three out of four in 1906-7,
1910-11 and 1914-15. In each of six years, Illinois won half
of her debates. The last two years of the fourteen have each
shown a gain, 3 debates having been won in 1916-17, and all
four in 1917-18, as against a single victory in 1914-15.
The Electrical Engineers' Show was first held in 1907, and
has since become an annual event. The purpose of the Show
is to exhibit the work of the students in the course of electrical
engineering. It serves also to acquaint the general student body
and the public at large with the latest developments in electri-
cal engineering science. A high degree of ingenuity is dis-
played by the students participating, who begin their prepara-
tions several months in advance. The Show usually lasts three
days.
Publications
Another form of student activity, entirely voluntary, but
of great importance in its contribution to the intellectual ef-
ficiency of those engaged in it, is the preparation and publi-
cation of various papers, magazines and books dealing with
university events or with matters related more or less closely
to certain fields of study.
The Daily Illini was established in 1871 as a monthly, then
called the Student. It became the Illini in 1873. Its frequency
of publication increased until in 1902 it was established as a
daily with six issues a week. The editor, business manager and
bookkeeper of the Illini are now chosen by the Illini Board of
Trustees, composed of three members of the faculty appointed
by the Council of Administration, and four students elected
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by the student body. The other members of the editorial and
business staff are appointed by the editor and the business man-
ager with the approval of the mini Board of Trustees.'
The niio is a year book published near the close of each
year by the junior class. The Illinois Magazine is a monthly
literary journal which appeared first in 1902. It has been
published with occasional interruptions, since that time. The
Siren, a humorous magazine, appeared monthly from 1911 to
1917. The Illinois Agriculturist is published monthly by the
Agricultural Club. It is devoted to the various agricultural
interests and regularly contains a number of articles of im-
portance to present and prospective farmers. The Technograph
is a technical journal published quarterly by a board chosen
from the various student societies of the college of engineering.
The Illinois Chemist is a quarterly journal published by the
Department of Chemistry in the interests of its faculty, alumni
and students.
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CHAPTER Vm
CAMPUS PLANS
Very few universities are so fortunate as to begin their
work upon a campus the details of which have been scientifi-
cally worked out in advance. In the case of a majority, the
choice of a site is largely determined by chance, and the sub-
sequent growth is in the direction of least resistance. Every
university, however, which has attained to a considerable size
comes sooner or Jater to recognize the desirability of adopting
and following a definite plan for its future expansion. In
any such plan due regard must be had to considerations of
necessity, convenience and beauty.
As has already been indicated in an earlier chapter, the
site of the University of Illinois was the gift of the people
of Champaign County. From seven to ten acres constituted
at first what might properly be called the campus, the remainder
of the land being used for several years as a part of the Uni-
versity farm. One building had already been erected.
It is encouraging to note that one of the first matters given
attention by the original Board of Trustees was the enlarge-
ment of the campus by purchase of adjacent land, particu-
larly that land which lay between the two principal parts of
the University's holdings.^ The improvement of the grounds
also received attention at an early date, and a plan of the
campus published in the college catalog for 1871-72 (p. 16)
shows a miniature forestry or arboretum occupying the tract
between the street railway and Green Street. A few years
later Burrill Avenue was laid out and trees were planted along
it and upon a large part of the whole campus.
It is certain that in the early years of the University's his-
tory it was generally expected that buildings other than those
connected with the operation of the University farm would be
erected only on the extreme northern part of the grounds. The
selection of a site for University Hall in 1871 was the occasion
K/f. supra. Chapter II, p. 43.
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of a vigorous discussion by the Board of Trustees. Five of
the nineteen members present voted to erect the building upon
the grounds north of Springfield Avenue.^ However, it was
decided that ''the new University building shall be built on the
crest of the ridge on which the gardener's house now stands,
being that part of the University lands lying immediately south
of Green Streets. ''^
The fact that this building was erected facing the north
and midway between the east and west lines of the campus
as it existed at that time, indicates that even the most far-
sighted of those in authority did not anticipate a further growth
toward the south. All the buildings erected during the suc-
ceeding thirty years, except two, were placed north of the east
and west axis of University Hall. So far as a plan was fol-
lowed in the location of these buildings, there was a general
grouping by departments, and the buildings were made to face
three principal streets — Springfield Avenue, Burrill Avenue,
and Qreen Street. The Armory and the Gymnasium were
placed on Springfield Avenue near the athletic field and the
parade grounds; the engineering buildings in close succession
along Burrill Avenue, with Engineering Hall fronting on
Green Street, the Natural History and Chemistry buildings and
the Library facing Green Street from the south and the Presi-
dent's house from the north. The Observatory was placed far
to the south that it might be well removed from the other build-
ings, and the Agricultural building was placed south of the
general group in order that it might be accessible both from
the farm and from the buildings housing related departments
of study. A similar consideration determined the location of
the Chemistry laboratory in 1902 between the Natural History
Hall, University Hall and the Agricultural building. The
Woman's building was placed to the south to insure a certain
degree of privacy to the building and to the young women's
athletic field adjacent.
When the erection of an auditorium was under considera-
tion in 1905, it became evident that this structure must be lo-
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eated with reference to the future growth of the University,
in order that it might be readily accessible from all parts of
the campus. It became necessary, therefore, to fix with some
degree of definiteness upon a campus plan which should provide
adequately for future enlargement.
The result of much study and several conferences by Messrs.
C. H. Blackall, Olmsted Brothers, and J. M. White, and later
Mr. Bumham and Mr. Zimmerman, the state architect, was a
decision to place the Auditorium on a north and south axis
midway between Wright Street and Mathews Avenue.
This plan assumes that the future growth of the University
will be chiefly toward the south of University Hall. So far
as buildings have been erected or planned within the past eleven
years, with the exception of the Education building, the
Vivarium and those of the engineering group, this assumption
has been maintained. The Commerce building, Lincoln Hall,
the new Armory, the Stock Pavilion, the Administration build-
ing, the new Library, the Smith Memorial Music Hall, the
Gregory Art Hall, the Women's Residence Hall, have been or
will be built south of the old University building. There is
seen in the location of the buildings at present under consid-
eration the beginnings of an entirely new extension of the
campus. The accompanying cut will make dear the plan which,
though not formally adopted, is being quite closely followed at
the present time.
It will be seen that the new Armory is southwest of the
Auditorium on the axis of Fifth Street, Champaign. Similarly,
the new Library is to be erected east of the Armory on its
east and west axis and on the axis of Wright Street. Directly
south of the Auditorium will be a group of buildings for the
College of Agriculture. To. the west of the Stock Pavilion
is a series of buildings to be occupied by the same college. The
present Agricultural Hall will be reconstructed, and the two
buildings which will result will be used by the College of Lib-
eral Arts and Sciences. West of the Agricultural group and
south of the Armory extends the new parade ground, already
in use, and still farther to the west along the Illinois Central
tracks will be the golf links and the new Illinois Field.
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The cut shows also a new building between the present
Library and Natural History Hall, closing the rectangle which
the Auditorium bounds on the south. University Hall and the
Law building are represented as having been removed ; Burrill
Avenue is extended in a direct line nearly to the Stock Judging
Pavilion ; and a new avenue extends nearly parallel to it, verg-
ing toward the west as it goes south from Green Street at the
same rate at which Burrill avenue inclines toward the east.
In this plan there are assigned for the Engineering build-
ings, in addition to the block now fully occupied, the block west
of Burrill Avenue and north of Green Street and nearly two
blocks east of Mathews avenue. North of Springfield Avenue
and east of Mathews Avenue is the building of the School of
Education. Directly south of the latter is the Botanical
laboratory.
The plan represents also a series of women's residence halls
south of Nevada Street and extending from Mathews Avenue
to Lincoln Avenue. One such hall is now completed, but it is
questionable whether this whole area will be thus occupied.
An interesting feature of the plan at present followed at
the University of Illinois is the extent to which a combination
is brought about between the system of continuous buildings
with courtyards and the open order system. Of the former
system Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects, say:*
"Undoubtedly the most convenient, the most economical
and the most architecturally impressive plan for grouping the
university working buildings would be that of continuous
buildings in the border of each block of land with a court or
courts in the middle forming a hollow square.''
The recommendation of Olmsted Brothers was, however, in
the case of the University of Illinois, for the open order system,
with room for trees between the buildings. The latter plan
was that which had been followed during the early years of
the University, but within the past ten years it has been modi-
fied by the acceptance of the principle that there must be '*a
general appearance of harmony among the various buildings,
in architectural style, in kind and color of exterior materials,
^Spedal report to the Uniyeraity of Ulinois, 1907, pp. 17-18
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in floor levels, cornice lines, pitch of roofs, alignment of corri-
dors, symmetry and coincidence of axis lines, orientation and
grades."* But the University has gone even a step farther,
and while not constructing a series of buildings ccHitinuously
about a court it has so planned the construction of each of the
more important of the recent buildings as to provide for either
one or two interior courts, the whole building when completed
having thus somewhat the same appearance as would have re-
sulted if a series of smaller buildings had been erected on
the four borders of the same block.
It will be noticed that at present, as in the past, buildings
are being grouped according to departments. Much greater
regard is now had, however, for the matter of convenience in
the location of buildings of general use, and an attempt is
being made to foresee in so far as possible the future needs
of the University, and to place each new building in that loca-
tion where it will meet not only the immediate requirements,
but those of the future as welL
In 1919, the Board of Trustees voted to employ as consulting
architects the firm of Holabird and Roche, of Chicago, and in
1920 the Board appointed a Commission consisting of the fol-
lowing persons : Mrs. Margaret D. Blake, Chairman, Mrs. Mary
B. Busey, Mr. William L. Abbott, Dean C. R. Richards, and
Director Gteorge A. Huff. The purpose of this commission is to
consider with the Consulting Architects and the Supervising
Architect the development of the Campus Plan.
How far those now in authority will be successful in this
endeavor only time will show. But it is significant that the
problem is receiving serious study ; and while it is probable that
it will become evident in the course of time that errors have
been committed, the likelihood of serious mistakes has been
greatly decreased.
'Special report to the Uniyersity of niinois, 1007, p. 20
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CHAPTER IX
THE COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
The various independent colleges and schools which together
constitute the University of Illinois have almost without excep-
tion exhibited a noteworthy development during the sixteen
years from 1904 to 1920. The growth of these has been pre-
sented in detached form in the preceding chapters. In the
present chapter there have been assembled certain of the facts
already given, and some of the outstanding features of the devel-
opment of the individual colleges and schools are emphasized.
1. The Graduate School
Until 1907 the Graduate School, which had been formally
organized in 1892, was maintained out of general University
funds. The appropriation of $50,000 a year by the Legislature
in 1907 for the support of graduate work was followed by the
organization of an Executive Faculty of the Graduate School,
and the adoption of more comprehensive plans for the work. It
has been the endeavor of the Executive Faculty **to bring the
Graduate School to the point where it shall offer instruction
and equipment equal to that of any graduate school in the
country. '**
The Graduate School in 1919-20 offered more than six hun-
dred courses, graduate work being made available in practically
every department of the University.
Sixteen years ago much less financial encouragement was
given to prospective graduate students by the University of
Illinois than at the present time. In 1903-04 eight fellowships
were offered in the Graduate School, each with a stipend of
$300 per annum. In the year 1919-20, $25,000 was appropri-
ated for graduate fellowships with a stipend varying from $300
to $500 a year and for graduate scholarships of the value of $250
each. For that year 25 scholars and 25 fellows were appointed.
In addition to these, 7 persons were able to spend one-half of
»From the buUetm, "Why go to a Graduate School," Univ. of Dl.,
pp. 13-15
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their time upon graduate work for a degree while holding re-
search fellowships of the value of $500 each in the Engineering
Experiment Station.
There has also been offered annually since 1911 the Francis
J. Plym Fellowship in Architecture with a stipend of $1,000. The
holder of this fellowship is thus enabled to spend a year abroad
in the advanced study of architecture. In 1916-17 a Celtic Fel-
lowship of $1,000 was established by the Irish Fellowship Club
of Chicago.
The total number of students enrolled in the Graduate School
in 1903-04 was 118. The number had increased to 380 in 1919-20,
excluding the summer session — a gain of 262, or nearly 220
per cent. If the summer session enrolment be taken into ac*
count also, the gross total for 1919-20 was 550; and the net
total, excluding persons who returned for the winter session,
466— a gain of 348 or over 294 per cent for the sixteen years.
In 1919-20 there were published under the auspices of the
Graduate School the Journal of English and Germanic Philology,
and three series of University Studies: Social Science Series,
Language and Literature Series and Biological Monographs.
The Illinois Historical Survey, an organization having for its
purpose the prosecution of systematic studies in the history of
Illinois, was established as a department of the Graduate School
in 1910.
The Graduate School of the University of Illinois was given
formal recognition in 1908 by the admission of the University
to the Association of American Universities, the chief require-
ment for membership in which is "the existence of a strong
graduate department."^
2. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences'
This college was formed in 1913 by the union of the College
of Literature and Arts and the College of Science. Each of the
'Report of Ninth Annual Conference, 1908, pp. 74-5
*A considerable part of the data contained in this statement was furn-
ished bj Prof. E. B. Greene, Dean of the CoUege of Literature and Arts
from 1906 to 1913; bj Prof. E. J. Townsend, Dean of the College of
Science from 1905 to 1913; and by Dean K. C. Babcock of the CoUege
of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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constituent colleges had shown a marked advance daring the
years from 1904 to 1913, and this advance has continued with-
out interruption since their amalgamation.
In 1903-04 the faculty of the College of Literature and Arts
numbered 38 persons; that of the College of Science, 35, a
total of 73. In 1919-20 the number had risen to 324, a gain
of over 343 per cent. The advance in the standards of scholar-
ship has been even more important. In 1904 a large part
of the instruction was in the hands of men who had themselves
received no considerable amount of university training beyond
that indicated by the possession of the bachelor's, or at best,
the master's degree. For several years it has been the policy
of this College to make the possession of the doctor's degree a
prerequisite — except in rare cases — ^to promotion to the rank
of instructor or above. This degree is not insisted upon as a
mere fetish, but as a concrete evidence of intellectual ability,
of capacity for sustained endeavor, and of general interest in
the promotion of advanced scholarship.
Prom 1903-04 to 1913 the enrolment of the College of Lit-
erature and Arts increased from 483 to 926; of the College
of Science, from 130 to 448. The total for the combined col-
lege in 1919-20 was 2,547. In connection with this substantial
evidence of growth there should be taken into account also the
distinct advance in scholarship standards. The group of stu-
dents who divided their time between the college and the acad-
emy has been eliminated, and a conservative policy has been
pursued with reference to the admission of special students.
The growth of the University Library from 66,239 volumes
in 1904 to about 428,000 in 1920, has meant much to all depart-
ments of the University, but has been of special significance
to the literary and scientific departments. The actual utiliza-
tion of these resources has been greatly facilitated by the estab-
lishment of the seminar rooms in Lincoln Hall and of the various
other departmental libraries.
The organization, likewise, of the Museum of Classical Art
and Archaeology, the Museum of European Culture and the
Oriental Museum involved an important addition not only to
the material available for use in formal instruction, but to the
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factors which promote general culture in college life. The ap-
pointment of a full-time Curator of the Museum of Natural
History is significant of further growth in service.
Important progress was made during the years from 1904
to 1920 in the construction of buildings for this division of
the University. The erection of Lincoln Hall, the Vivarium,
the Botany Greenhouse and the additions to the Natural History
Building and the Chemistry Laboratory, served to relieve con-
ditions which were fast becoming insanitary through overcrowd-
ing, and gave opportunity both for the expansion of the literary
departments and for the more complete utilization of the scien-
tific laboratories and equipment.
The conduct of the Journal of English and Germanic
Philology; the editing of the Yearbook of the German Ameri-
can Historical Society of Illinois, the Illinois Historical Collec-
tions, the Mississippi Valley Historical Review and the Journal
of the American Chemical Society ; assistance rendered the State
Tax Commission, the State Efficiency Commission and other
state bodies, are some of the many activities outside the regu-
lar field of University work which have been carried on by
members of this college during a part of the last sixteen years
in the interest of productive scholarship or of expert service to
the State.
Prom 1913 to 1920 *
As previously mentioned tiie College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences was created by the union of the College of Literature
and Arts and the College of Science. The union became effective
on the first of July, 1913 and the new College therefore com-
pleted the first five years of its existence with the end of the
last fiscal year. The requirements for admission and for a de-
gree in the two colleges differed considerably and the reorgan-
ization of curriculum and procedure has been a slow and some-
times difficult process, but at the end of seven years, the com-
plete unification of the College has been accomplished.
The new curriculum for the A. B. degree was worked out
by the faculty of the College and finally approved by the Board
^A special statement by Dean K. C. Babcoek
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of Trustees in June, 1914. It is based upon the principle of
minimum requirements in six groups of subjects and a larger
requirement in one major subject, buttressed with a group of
allied minor subjects. The principle of election is also observed
in provisions by which students may have free election of about
forty out of one hundred thirty hours, in subjects taken in
departments of this College, or in a limited number of sub-
jects in departments in other colleges of the University.
Considerable expansion has been made in the plan of com-
bined courses in Liberal Arts and Sciences on the one hand,
and Law, Medicine and Dentistry on the other. By this, it is
now possible for a student to get an A.B. degree upon the
completion of three years' work in Liberal Arts and one year's
work in Law, Medicine, or Dentistry, either in the University
of Illinois or in another approved institution.
By a process of division, the College of Commerce and Busi-
ness Administration was created out of the College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, effective September first, 1915 and the work
in ceramics and ceramic engineering was transferred to the
College of Engineering. As a consequence of this division, the
registration of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences fell
from 1,858 for 1914-15 to 1,552 in 1915-16, and rose to 1,784
for 1916-17 and to 2,547 in 1919-20.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences continues to be
the great service college for the other colleges of the University,
and departmental unity has been maintained with a remarkable
consistency. All the instructional work in English, mathematics,
chemistry, zoology and botany required by the curriculums in
agriculture and in engineering is given by these departments
in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The service feature of the College is illustrated also by
its complete co-operation with the Graduate School. "With minor
exceptions, all salaries of persons giving instruction or conduct-
ing research in the Graduate School in departments represented
in this College, outside of stipends for graduate students, are
paid out of the budget of the College, and allowance of time for
research and productive scholarship is made in arranging the
schedule of work for promising men on the faculty. In a few
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cases, a professor is relieved of unders^duate teaching for a
semester, in order to devote his time to investigation and writ-
ing. In others, the burden of teaching is materially reduced
for a period agreed upon with the Graduate School. The num-
ber of research assistants has been increased in order to facili-
tate the investigations of men of distinction and promise. Such
assistants have been provided upon a more or less permanent
basis in the departments of Botany, Chemistry, the Classics,.
Mathematics and Zoology. This does not take into account
the work of the Illinois Historical Survey, which is closely allied
with the Department of History.
Notable changes have occurred in several departments. A
new professor and head of the department has been appointed
in Botany, in Oeology and in Bomance Languages. The resig-
nation of the chairman of the Department of English was fol-
lowed by the promotion of another professor to the chairman*
ship and the addition of a new full professor. An increased
registration in the University led to large increases in the staff
of the departments of English, Chemistry, Bomance Languages
and History. In the College, a net total of twenty additional
men of professorial rank, exclusive of added members of middle
or lower ranks, marks the period of seven years.
For seven years, the College has carried a system of special
advisers for freshmen and sophomores, in order to give stu-^
dents coming for the first time to the University a helpful rela-
tion with mature and sympathetic members of the faculty, over
and above the necessary official relationship with administrative
and instructional officers, and supplementary to the offices of
the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women. By assigning to a
single teacher small groups of students, usually not exceeding-
twelve, and by selecting these students with reference to their
personal qualities as developed by correspondence with previous
high school teachers and instructors, the service rendered haa
proved distinctly helpful and has been greatly appreciated. The
co-operation of the high school principals and teachers has been
generous and cordial. For the first three years, each adviser
was paid a small sum to cover incidental expenses of this service.
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3. The College of Enoineerino, and the Enoineebino
Experiment Station'
In the development of the University of Illinois, the College
of Engineering was early recognized as one of the strong tech-
nical colleges of the country, and by the year 1904 its standing
may be said to have been assured. During the past sixteen
years there has been very significant progress made in the
College of Engineering not only in the character of work done,
in point of student attendance and in size of faculty, but more
particularly through its contributions to engineering science.
General Courses
In 1904-05 the College of Engineering was composed of the
following departments: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Elec-
trical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Municipal and
Sanitary Engineering and Physics.
Pour year courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science
were offered in Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Civil
Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,
Railway Mechanical Engineering and Municipal and Sanitary
Engineering.
The importance of transportation problems led to the estab-
lishment of a separate Department of Railway Engineering and
the School of Railway Engineering and Administration on
January 30, 1906. Prior to this time the course in Railway
Mechanical Engineering was given by the Department of Me-
chanical Engineering. The activities of the School of Railway
Engineering and Administration included a series of courses in
Railway Engineering administered by the College of Engineer-
ing, and courses in Railway Traffic, Railway Accounting and
Railway Administration administered by the College of Com-
merce and Business Administration. Also it offered courses in
Railway Civil Engineering, Railway Electrical Engineering,
Railway Mechanical Engineering, Railway Traffic and Account-
ing and Railway Transportation. ''In 1917 the activities of this
"SynopsiB of a special report bj G. R. Bichardfl, Dean of the College
and Director of the Station
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school were suspended because the leading members of its fac-
ulty were called away for war service. "•
The Department of Mining Engineering was established on
June 8, 1909, by an act of the Legislature in response to a de-
mand for instruction in this subject on the part of the mining
interests of the state. Prior to the organization of this De-
partment a limited amount of instruction in mining engineer-
ing had been given. The Department has shown much progress
in the various lines of work under its direction.
During the period under consideration, two departments of
engineering, namely, Chemical Engineering and Ceramic En-
gineering, were established in the College of Science, and a quasi-
engineering department known as the Department of Farm
Mechanics was established in the College of Agriculture. The
Department of Ceramic Engineering was transferred to the Col-
lege of Engineering in 1915.
Special Activities AnMiNiSTEBza) by the Colleqe of
Engineebino
During recent years the College of Engineering has admin-
istered certain special or extra activities of importance to the
State. As a result of the Cherry Mine disaster, there was estab-
lished at a special session of the Legislature during the winter
of 1910 a Mine Rescue Service in Illinois under the control of
the Mine Rescue Commission, consisting of two mine operators,
two miners, one mine inspector, one representative of the United
States Bureau of Mines and one representative of the Mining
Engineering Department of the University of Illinois. The
University may justly claim much of the credit for the estab-
lishment of this service, as it was the direct outgrowth of the
pioneer work of the Urbana Rescue Station.
On July 1, 1911, an appropriation of $10,000.00 for two
years, made by the Legislature for co-operative investigations
in mining, became available. Under the arrangements entered
into, the United States Bureau of Mines, the State Geological
Survey and the Department of Mining Engineering of the Uni-
versity have co-operated in the investigation of mining condi-
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tions in Illinois. Much work of importance to the mine
operators and miners of the State has been accomplished under
this co-operative scheme. The University has continued to main-
tain this co-operative work under the new arrangement of
financial administration.
In 1913 the Legislature appropriated the sum of $30,000.00
for two years to establish and maintain Miners' and Mechanics'
Institutes which were placed under the direction of the Depart-
ment of Mining Engineering. The purpose of the Miners' and
Mechanics' Institutes was somewhat similar to that of the Farm-
ers' Institutes, but their specific purpose was to assist men who
are preparing themselves to pass the tests required by the State
before they can hold official positions about the mines.
A short course in Highway Engineering was given for the
first time from January 19 to 31, 1914, and this has become
an annual event. The course was placed under the immediate
supervision of the Department of Civil Engineering. It was
planned primarily to aid the newly appointed County Super-
intendents of Highways in preparing for their duties, and to
help any other persons interested in highway construction. It
is especially significant that of the 66 county superintendents of
highways provided for in the 1913 law, no less than 63 appeared
at the first session and remained thruout the entire course.
The Enqikeerinq Experiment Station
The Engineering Experiment Station was established by
action of the Board of Trustees on December 8, 1903, in con-
nection with the College of Engineering. The purpose of the
Station is to carry on investigations along various lines of en-
gineering, and to make studies of problems of importance to
professional engineers and to the manufacturing, mining, rail-
way and other industrial interests of the State. The first bulle-
tin issued by the Station bears the date of September 1, 1904.
There was, however, no Station organization until Professor
L. P. Breckenridge was appointed Director of the Engineering
Experiment Station on June 2, 1905. During the period which
has since elapsed one hundred fifteen bulletins have been pub-
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lished, many of which are recognized as distinct and important
contributions to the science of engineering.
Probably none of the activities of the College of Engineering
is of greater importance or has received more favorable and wide-
spread attention than the Engineering Experiment Station. It
was the first Engineering Experiment Station ever established
in connection with an educational institution. The work of
the Station is carried on under the Director, who since 1909
has been the Dean of the College of Engineering, and an ad-
ministrative staff composed of the heads of the several departs
ments of the College. Much of the research work is conducted
by investigators on full-time appointment, and by research fel-
lows and assistants who give half-time to the investigations under
way in the Station.
Student Enbolment
As has been indicated, up to the year 1904-05 the College
of Engineering had attained considerable prominence, and as
a result attendance had been stimulated to a degree which
made the College one of the largest in the country in point of
student enrolment, a position which it has since maintained.
The attendance in the College of Engineering here and in tech-
nical schools elsewhere reached a maximum in the year 1919-20,
when the total enrolment of undergraduate engineering stu-
dents at Illinois was 1,768. There are only two or possibly three
institutions in the country which have a larger enrolment of
engineering students than the University of Illinois.
PAOUIiTY
Perhaps the most important development in the College of
Engineering during the past sixteen years has been in the num-
ber of members of the regular staff of instruction. The College
of Engineering was very badly undermanned sixteen years ago,
as there were 20.9 students for each member of the staff of in-
struction at that time, while at present there are 17 students for
each member of the staff.
Up to the appointment of Dr. W. F. M. Qoss to the dean-
fihip of the College of Engineering in 1907, a large part of the
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duties of the Dean of the College were clerical, including such
work as the enrolment of students, the maintenance of student
records, student discipline, etc. The new Dean at once made
arrangements whereby one of the Professors in the College of
Engineering should give a portion of his time as Assistant Dean
to this work. Unquestionably, this arrangement has been of
great value in the administration of student affairs, and the
Dean has thereby been enabled to give his attention to the larger
problems of administration.
The Alumni of the College of Ekgineering
From the establishment of the University up to and includ-
ing the class of 1904, the College of Engineering had graduated
820 persons, and up to and including the class of 1919, it has
graduated 3,326 persons. It is thus evident that about 75 per
cent of the graduates in engineering have completed their work
during the past sixteen years. A recent investigation showed
that 89.32 per cent of the alumni of the College are employed
in some branch of technical work.
One of the most important facts in connection with the grad-
uates of the College of Engineering is that slightly over 50 per
cent of the total number reside in the State of Illinois. It is
self-evident that these technically trained men have had a dis-
tinct influence upon the industrial development of the State.
Buildings and Equipment
Six important buildings for the use of the College of En-
gineering were erected during the period from 1904 to 1920;
namely, the Ceramics Laboratory, costing $130,998.79 ; the Loco-
motive Laboratory and Beservoir, $34,270; the Mechanical
Engineering Laboratory, $85,671.90 ; the Mining and Ceramics
Laboratory, $25,000 ; the Physics Laboratory, $220,000, and the
Transportation Building, $86,000. In spite of the expenditure
of $581,940.69 for these structures, many departments of the
College are still crowded for room.
During the same period the value of engineering equipment,
exclusive of furniture and fixtures, rose from $94,391.02 to
$425,383.44, a gain of over 350 per cent.
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Daring the past sixteen years there have been many changes
in methods of instmction, in the administration of student af-
fairs, in the development of scientific work and in the extension
of the influence of the College through the outside activities
of its professors.
Since 1909 the College of Engineering has held a convocation
for its freshmen students each Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock
under the immediate supervision of the Assistant Dean of the
College. At these convocations, lectures are given by members
of the faculty and by visiting engineers. They also afford an
opportunity for the Asisstant Dean to present to the freshmen
such information as will be to their best intere^.
During the past few years there have been several changes
in the method of registering students and in the maintenance
of student records. One of these involves photographing each
new student and attaching the picture to the student's record
card to permit of his identification.
There has been developed also a file of graduate record
cards which record the impressions of the graduate's instruc-
tors regarding his general ability, appearance, etc. The grad-
uate's photograph is pasted on the card, so that information
regarding the record of graduates of the College of Engineering
can be furnished with little difficulty.
One of the most significant of the recent experiments under-
taken by the College of Engineering is the method of shop in-
struction. Up to 1912, practically all shop instruction in Ameri-
can colleges was by methods similar to those used in manual
training. It became evident that in a technical school, shop
work could hardly be justified unless it had a distinct ^igineer-
ing value ; that is, unless it emphasized the engineering rather
than the manual features of such work. Eight years ago an ex-
periment in shop instruction was begun in the Illinois labora-
tories with the idea of using these laboratories to teach the en-
gineering and economic principles of machine construction and
the science of shop management rather than to attempt to give
the students a smattering of manual skill. This method of in-
struction has proven highly successful.
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4. The College of Agriculttire and the Agricultural
ExPEBiMENT Station
It is probable that no division of the University has exhibited
a more striking growth daring the last sixteen years than the
College of Agriculture.
In 1903-04 the total number of students registered in this
College was 308. For 1919-20, the enrolment was 1,215, a gain
of 907, or 294 per cent for the sixteen years. In 1904, only 16
graduates received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Agri-
culture. This number grew to 235 in 1917, but dropped to 139
in 1918 and to 65 in 1919 on account of the war. In April,
1920, there were 150 members of the senior class in Agriculture
in good standing. It will be noted that while the total registra-
tion in the College multiplied nearly four times during the
sixteen years, the senior class was fourteen times as large in
1916, and nearly ten times as large in 1920 as in 1904, an indica-
tion that the increase in quality of the students was even more
marked than in numbers. This is further evidenced by the fact
that whereas in 1904 there had not been a graduate student
in agriculture for ten years, during the year 1919-20 there
were 56 (66)* graduate students doing work in agriculture.
Sixteen years ago there were 37 members on the agricul-
tural faculty, including both College and Station. In 1919-20
there were 119 members on full-time and 12 more devoting one-
half or a larger part of their time to the work of instruction,
a total of 131. The relative growth of the various departments
is indicated in the following table :
FACULTY OF COLLEGE OF AGBICULTUEE AND AGBICULTUBAL
EXPERIMENT STATION, 1904 AND 1920
Department 1903-04 1919-20
Administration 2 2
Agronomy 12 88
Animal Husbandry 5 29
Botany 8 (Discontinued)
Dairy Husbandry 6 11
Farm Organisation and Management 4
Extension 1 5
Horticulture 5 17
'Figures in parenthesis are for the year 1916-17
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Home Economics 2 24
Smith-Lever Service 10
Veterinary Science 1
Total 37 131
The number of full professors in this College increased dur-
ing the period from six to thirty-one, and the number of associate
professors and assistant professors from three to twenty-one.
In 1903-04 the College and Station were receiving a total
of $189,000 annually from the Federal Gtovemment and the
State of Illinois. For the year 1919-20 the total sum expended
by the College and Station was $949,080.
Rapid as the increase has been in the funds available for
the College and Station, the income has not kept pace with the
increasing demands as indicated by the number of students,
the higher grade of work called for, and by the greatly increased
demand for experimental investigation. Sixteen years ago
nearly all the instructional work was elementary, as demanded
by the large preponderance of lower classmen. Now with 150
(235) seniors and 43 (66) graduate students, conditions have
notably changed, and the call is primarily for highly differ-
entiated instruction. The development has been no less im-
portant in regard to research. The problems calling for solu-
tion in the state are difficult ones requiring the most careful
research by judicious and well-trained men. Numerous and ex-
pensive publications are necessary. The regular mailing list
has reached a total of 43,000, while a supplementary list con-
tains approximately 60,000 names. Up to the summer of 1920,
225 bulletins and 240 circulars had been issued by the Station.
The value of agricultural equipment, exclusive of furniture
and fixtures, has increased from $60,425.37 to $291,948.69. In
1904 the College possessed only a small number of animals. The
number now owned fluctuates greatly from year to year, but is
approximately 1,100, consisting of about 150 dairy cattle, 500
hogs, 70 horses, 204 sheep, and 175 beef cattle. Among the
animals are many specimens that would distinguish any collec-
tion. In addition there are about 2,500 chickens, turkeys and
other kinds of poultry.
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During this period the University purchased 570 acres of
farm land in the vicinity of Urbana and Champaign, and ac-
quired by gift or purchase 30 experiment fields located in various
sections of the state, containing a total area of over 700 acres.
The indoor laboratory equipment has practically aU been
installed within the last sixteen years. It is entirely suitable
for its purposes, so far as it is sufScient in quantity; and in
respect to the work in soil fertility, soil physics, animal nutrition
and plant breeding, it is unexcelled.
Nearly all the buildings at present occupied by the College
of Agriculture were erected during the last sixteen years. Of
28 buildings now in use, the original cost of which was approxi-
mately $570,000, only the main Agricultural Building and five
minor structures, the total cost of which did not exceed $200,000,
were in existence in 1904. No major buildings, however, with
the exception of the Stock Judging Pavilion and the Horticul-
tural group, were erected during this period, and the College
has for some time been so handicapped by the lack of sufScient
room as to impair seriously its efficiency. A new agricultural
plant to cost not less than $2,000,000 was the first item of a
ten-million-dollar building program proposed to the Legislature
in 1917.'^ Of the $2,000,000 asked of the Legislature for the
biennium 1917-19, it was planned to use $500,000 for the erection
of the first unit of the Agricultural plant. The restriction im-
posed by the Legislature in 1917 on aU building activities by
state institutions led to the refusal of funds for the inaugura-
tion of the projected building program. The College of Agri-
culture has already felt the effects of the over-crowded condi-
tions under which its work is conducted, having found it neces-
sary to discontinue offering many advanced courses in highly
important subjects and is likely to be forced to the necessity
of turning away prospective students unless adequate space is
provided in the immediate future.
During the past sixteen years new lines of work have been
developed in the fields of floriculture, landscape gardening, ani-
mal nutrition, plant breeding and genetics. As has already
'Cf. Senate BiU 366, 60th G. A.
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been indicated,® the College has co-operated actively since 1914
with the Federal Gtovemment in the extension work provided
for by the Smith-Lever Act of that year. There has recently
been established also a system of extension schools in varions
parts of the state. A complete system of student advisers for
the npperdassmen has been established, as also a special com-
mittee to deal with the freshman dass, shaping it into genuine
university material. In order to assist in the social improve-
ment of country life conditions, a community adviser has de-
voted his time since 1914 to the study of the problems of country
life, and to the development of methods for dealing with them.
Two representatives are regularly sent to each of the hun-
dred county institutes held annually, and technical information
arising out of the investigative work carried on at the Station
and College is thus brought directly to the farmers of the State.
There is no doubt that the latter have within the past sixteen
years developed a new attitude toward agriculture, a new knowl-
edge of its requirements and a new consciousness of their op-
portunities and their responsibilities.
Of the many problems upon which untiring study has been
devoted during the recent period, probably none is of greater
importance to the people of Illinois than the determination of
the methods by which the various soils of the state might be
treated in order that they might not only produce the largest
possible crops, but also maintain their fertility from year to
year and even become more productive. This has involved the
inauguration of a complete soil survey of the slate, including
the chemical analysis of all the soils. As a result of this investi-
gation, knowledge has been acquired that will enable the farm-
ers of Illinois to arrest the gradual decline in the fertility of
the soil, which was becoming more and more evident, and to
restore those elements which insure the highest productivity.
5. The College op Commerce and Business Administration®
The movement for higher commercial education in the United
States began about 1899, a year after the establishment of the
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Commercial University (Handelshochschule) of Leipsig, Cter-
many, which was the first institution of its kind in the world.
To place the University of Illinois in line with this movement
the Illinois Legislature was asked to make an appropriation in
1901. This was done, and in 1902 the Courses in Business Ad-
ministration, then known as **The Courses of Training for Busi-
ness," but always popularly spoken of as the ** School of Com-
merce'* were established with Professor David Kinley, at that
time Dean of the College of Literature and Arts and head of
the Department of Economics, as Director. The new work
was included in the Department of Economics : two new pro-
fessorships were created in the Department, one in commerce
and the other in industry and transportation ; and new courses
in commercial subjects, corporation finance, insurance and
transportation were added to the work already being given.
The success of the new undertaking was almost immediately
assured. The new courses became popular at once and the reg-
istration rapidly increased. A noteworthy incident of the
establishment of the business curriculum, aside from the large
number of students electing the four-year business courses, was
the increased enrolment of general Liberal Arts and Science
students, as well as engineering and agricultural students, in
both the theoretical and practical subjects of economic study.
The early success achieved by the courses led in 1907 to an
increase in the appropriation by the Legislature which made
possible a considerable expansion of the work, especially in
accounting, industry and railway administration, and the addi-
tion of new professorships.
The progress of the work after 1907 was more marked.
The enlarged staff of instructors and the increase in number
of courses and students early brought into prominence the
urgent need of special accommodations and equipment for the
work in commerce. The business interests of Illinois soon real-
ized that to secure full service from the courses a special build-
ing was required. With their assistance, the Legislature was
convinced of the necessity, and though the full amount re-
quested was not granted, an appropriation of $125,000 was
made in 1911 for the erection of the Commerce Building. The
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btiilding was completed and occupied in the spring of 1913
and its anticipated advantages have been folly realized. The
students in business administration have been made to feel
an individuality previously unknown, the professional char-
acter of their training has become more distinct and the in-
structors have been brought into more intimate touch with
one another and with students. With the new facilities and
equipment the work in accounting, statistics, banking, rail-
way administration, commerce and other subjects has been
developed to a degree of practical efficiency unattainable in
the past. It ought to be a matter of pride to the citizens of
Illinois, as well as to the University administration, that, in
developing its facilities to train men for useful careers in
public and private business administration, the State has placed
itself in the vanguard of educational progress.
The most important step taken in the development of busi-
ness education at the University of Illinois was the decision
to erect the courses in Business Administration into a distinct
and separate College. The University Senate at its meeting
in June, 1914, voted to recommend the separation of the Busi-
ness Courses from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
in which they had hitherto been virtually an autonomous ad-
ministrative department. This recommendation was adopted
by the Board of Trustees and a resolution passed authorizing
the establishment of an independent College of Commerce and
Business Administration co-ordinate with the other principal
colleges of the University. The College was formally organ-
ized in 1915. This change led to important modifications in the
business curriculum and allowed the introduction of a larger
number of technical and semi-technical courses essential for
efficient business training.
In 1903-04 the business courses were conducted under the
general direction of the Department of Economics. Upon the
organization of the College of Commerce and Business Admin-
istration in 1915 the work was placed under three separate
departments, namely, economics, including finance and sta-
tistics ; business organization and operation, including account-
ing and business law; and transportation.
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For the year 1903-04 the enrolment in the business courses
was 41. The number rose steadily from semester to semester
with remarkable uniformity, until in 1919-20 a total of 1,588
students were enrolled in the new college. For the six years
previous to 1919-20 the annual increase ranged from 25 to 38
per cent.
Eighteen years' experience with the courses in Commerce
and Business Administration seems to warrant fully the belief
that university commercial education, though regarded in
many quarters a dozen or sixteen years ago as a doubtful
innovation if not an educational fad, is a social and economic
service of the highest importance and promise.
6. The College op Law^^
In 1904-05, the College of Law had hardly more than a
rudimentary law library — a few text books and copies of the
reports of courts of last resort in about one-fourth of the states.
The number of books was considerably below the minimum
of 5,000 which is now required for membership in the Asso-
ciation of American Law Schools. It has today an excellent
working library of over 22,000 books. It contains not only
full sets of the courts of last resort of all the states of the
Union, but also sets of the English, Irish and Canadian re-
ports, and over 2,000 text-books upon almost every subject
known to law.
The faculty in 1904-05 consisted of six members including
the Dean. There are now seven. They are, on the average,
men of much stronger native ability, better legal training
and of much greater experience in teaching. Courses have
been added in Bankruptcy, Conflict of Laws, Conveyancing,
Future Interests in Property, Insurance, Quasi-Contracts and
Public Service Companies, and additional work is given in
Constitutional Law.
The requirements for admission have been raised from a
certificate from an accredited high school to the completion
of two years' college work. Students who enroll in the four-
**Summary of a special report by Judge O. A. Harker, Dean of the
College of Law from 1903 to 1916
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year law course organized in 1917 will be admitted upon the
completion of 30 hoars' college credit.
The standard of scholarship in the College has been dis-
tinctly raised. The students work more earnestly and grad-
uate better equipped than formerly. The change is due in
part to raising the entrance requirements, but chiefly to
changes in administration and in the conduct of instruction.
The success of graduates of this College in the examina-
tions given by the State Board of Bar Examiners for admis-
sion to the bar has been remarkable. It is probable that no
law school in the country has a better record. Nor are the
graduates of the College less successful in practise. Within
the last sixteen years, twenty-eight have been elected to the
office of State's Attorney; seven have served as Assistants to
the Attorney General of the State ; three have been elected to
the office of circuit judge, and one to the office of Supreme
Judge of the State of North Dakota, while another has been
appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of China.
Improvements that have been made in the Law Building
include a five-story fire-proof book stack, with a capacity of
22,000 volumes; remodeling and refurnishing class rooms;
adding a reading room, a law club room, and a consultation
room ; lockers and a coat room for students ; a reading room
and two new offices for the faculty ; a remodeling of the base-
ment and entrances, and new electric lighting.
Recent Developments^^
In 1916 Prof. H. W. BaUantine of the University of Wis-
consin was appointed Dean of the College of Law of the Uni-
versity of Illinois. The new Dean has to his credit a long
list of articles in legal periodicals, and two books, ''Problems
in the Law of Contracts," and a revised and modernized edi-
tion of Blackstone's Commentaries. He is recognized also as
an expert in the field of Martial Law.
Perhaps the most notable recent achievement of the Col-
lege of Law was the establishment in 1917 of the Illinois Law
"Extracts from a special article by Prof. J. N. Pomeroy of the Col-
lege of Law
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Bulletin, a new publication which will appear three times a
year. The primary function of the Bulletin is the discussion
of Illinois law. Professor William G. Hale is the editor.
The criticism frequently made, that students in law col-
leges get no training in actual practise, is met at the Uni-
versity of Illinois by rigorous practical work in moot court.
For 1916-17 this work involved not only the argument of
questions of law, but the actual trial of many cases on issues
of fact, and the conduct of all the steps in legal procedure.
Other practical work introduced during the year 1916-17 in-
cluded new courses in brief -making for first year students, and
in the examination of titles and drafting of documents for
third year students.
The decision of the Trustees in 1917 to remove the tuition
fee previously charged students in the College of Law was
a step which should prove distinctly favorable to the growth
of this college.
The College of Law of the University of Illinois is subject
to unusually severe competition. It is not strange therefore
that under the present pre-legal requirements its numbers have
shrunk below what they were when the College required for
admission no more than the completion of a high school course.
This shrinkage in attendance is however more than compen-
sated for by the increased efficiency and higher quality of the
work. Under competent and enthusiastic leadership and with
an adequate backing, there is no reason why the official law
college of the state should not come to be recognized as equal
to the best law schools in the country.
7. The LroRARY School 1904-20*2
Beginning with 1911 the entrance requirements to the Li-
brary School, which had been three years of college work, were
raised to four years of college work. In spite of the successive
advance in the entrance requirements from two years of col-
lege work, then to three years and finally in 1911 to four years,
the attendance of the School has not materially decreased, and
"A special report by P. L. Windsor, Director
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is at the present time limited by the capacity of the School
quarters to about 45 students. There is only one other Library
School with entrance requirements as high as those of this school.
Besides general improvement in the instruction, due in paH
to greatly improved equipment and library resources, the prin-
cipal changes in the curriculum have been:
1. The development of the course in Public Documents
to include municipal and foreign documents as well as federal
This is now a 2-hour course extending over two semesters.
2. Since 1905 Edna Lyman Scott has come to the School
each year to give instruction in the selection of books for chil-
dren and in the administration of children's libraries. Li the
beginning her work extended over three weeks, but in recent
years Mrs. Scott has given five weeks' work to both juniors and
seniors in the second semester.
3. Since 1907 senior students have been required to work
a month in a public or other well organized library, under usual
staff conditions as far as possible. This field work has been
of marked value to the students and the plan has been fol-
lowed by other library schools.
4. Beginning in 1914, the faculty allowed senior library
school students desiring to fit themselves for work in a special
library, such as an agricultural or chemistry library, to sub-
stitute those advanced courses in other colleges or schools of
the University which would more definitely contribute to their
preparation.
In 1905-06 there were students registered from 6 states;
in 1917-18 there were students from 16 states and 3 foreign
countries. These figures are indicative of the enlarged ter-
ritory from which the School now draws its registrants. Dur-
ing recent years between twenty and twenty-five colleges and
universities, well scattered thruout the country, have been rep-
resented by their alumni who enrolled in the Library School
of this institution.
Alumni and former students of the School are now em-
ployed in library work in 29 states, the District of Colum-
bia and 2 foreign countries ; 121 in university or college libraries ;
93 in public libraries; 13 in large reference libraries; 34 in
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normal school or high school libraries; 20 in U. S. or state
libraries ; 13 in business or corporation libraries, and 7 in state
library commission oflSces.
Since 1911 the Library School has conducted each summer,
courses in library methods, intended primarily for librarians
and library assistants in Illinois libraries, who are not pre-
pared or cannot afford to spend a year in a regular library
school. The great majority of students attending these courses
are from Illinois libraries, and the help thus given by the
University has been more and more appreciated by librarians
and library trustees of the state. A total of 229 students, 165
from Illinois libraries, have been enrolled since 1911.
8. The School of Musio
Instruction in music was provided almost from the time
the University was established.^^ For many years, however,
the instructors received no salary from the University, their
only compensation being the fees collected from their pupils.^*
A suggestion made to the Board of Trustees by Prof. T. J.
Burrill in 1892, while Acting Regent of the University, that
music be included in the regular system of instruction, i*^ re-
sulted in an appropriation of $300 by the Board for the formal
establishment of such a department. The suggestion was how-
ever repeated by President Draper in his first annual report
in 1895, and upon being invited by the Trustees to prepare
plans for the inauguration of a department of music, he re-
ported that the department could be established on a very
satisfactory basis at an expense that would not exceed $1,600
per annum.^® The department was accordingly established.
In 1897, Captain Thomas J. Smith of Champaign, then a
member of the Board of Trustees, began to urge upon his col-
leagues the desirability of reorganizing the Department of
Music; of putting it upon the basis of a distinct college of
the University; of employing a dean with sufficient assistants;
'*Cf. Catalogs, 1873, p. 48; 1876, p. 59; 1877, p. 64; etc.
"Sept., Univ. of lU., 1878, p. 10: ibid, 1880, p. 252
"Ibid, 1892, p. 205
"Ibid, p. 96
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of charging no greater tuition to stadents in music than in
other departments of the University ; and of granting degrees
to graduates of that college.^^ His efforts bore froit in 1897
when it was voted by the Board that the department of music
should be made the School of Music, to be conducted on the
same basis as the Schools of Law, Medicine, etc. ; and in 1900
when it was voted that after September 1st of that year all
matriculated students who were residents of Illinois should
be entitled to instruction in all departments of the School
of Music at no higher rates than the students in other divisions
of the University were charged.^®
The enrolment in the School of Music was 101 in 1903-04^
but this number fell to 80 in 1904-05, and did not again exceed
100 until 1916-17 when 108 students were enrolled. The mini-
mum reached during the sixteen years was 61 in 1909-10, at
which time more rigid requirements were adopted, resulting
in the elimination of certain classes of students.
From 1904 to 1920
Up to the year 1905 only one student had graduated from
the School of Music. There was one graduate in that year,
and this number was not exceeded in any year until 1910,
when four persons received the degree of Bachelor of Music.
The maximum was reached in 1915 with 10 graduates. In 1919
there were 7.
Fifty-one courses in music were offered in 1903-04. Of these
a large number were elementary. By 1919-20 the number had
increased to 160 and three years of preparatory study in Piano^
Voice or Violin were required for admission to the School.
During this period there were various changes in the ad-
ministration of the school which resulted in the establishment
of a strengthened curriculum, in better methods for conduct-
ing the work and in better relations with the student body.
Entrance and semester examinations are now carried on more
strictly, and a higher quality of work is becoming evident as
a consequence.
^Tlept., Univ. of lU., 1898, p. 107, 113; 1900, p. 212
"Bept., Univ. of lU., 1898, pp. 124-5; ibid, 1900, p. 255
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An action resulting in especial benefit to the School of
Music was taken in 1913 by the Board of Trustees, when pro-
vision was made for a series of eight orchestral concerts to
be given at the University annually by four of the leading
orchestras of the country.!^
In 1913 also, an appropriation was made by the Trustees
for the purchase and installation of an organ in the Audi-
torium. The organ was formally dedicated on December 3,
1914, with a concert by Professor Charles Heinroth of the
Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg.^o
The event of greatest significance to the School of Mudc
during this period was the gift of approximately 768 acres of
valuable farm land, in 1914, by Captain Thos. J. Smith of
Champaign — ^whose interest in the School of Music as a Trus-
tee has already been indicated — to provide funds for the erec-
tion of a Music Hall as a memorial to his wife, Tina Weedon
Smith. The gift was formally accepted by the Trustees, and the
building, the cost of which is estimated at $450,000, was com-
pleted in 1920.21
The School of Mxtsio in 1920**
The position of the School of Music in the University of
Illinois is probably unique among similar institutions in this
country. Its organization along strictly academic lines, as
a part of the University, and without any outside relationships
whatsoever, is different from that of any other of the schools
which offer courses in practical music.
The greatest accomplishment of the School of Music within
the past five years has been in perfecting the organization,
standardizing the work and, incidentally, raising standards
so far as possible. In other words, the development has been
intensive rather than extensive — the limitations of quarters and
equipment making it impossible to increase the enrolment to
any extent. Existing organizations have been built up and
*Eept, Univ. of lU., 1914, pp. 264, 591
"Eept, Univ. of HL, 1914, p. 655; ibid, 1916, p. 166
'■See also Chapter II and HI
'A special statement by J. Lawrence Erb, Director of the School of
Mnsie since 1914
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their activities iacreased. Two new organizations, the Uni-
versity Women's Glee Club and University Choristers, have
come into existence, and various new courses have been organ-
ized to make the work more efficient.
The entire thought of the Faculty in this connection has
been to a£Ford the utmost opportunity to all students of the
University to acquire the most complete musical knowledge
and experience possible, and to train young men and women
who might become leaders of musical enterprises in their com-
munities. On this account the degree of Bachelor of Music
has been based upon a general culture with music as the nucleus
rather than upon a specific professional course which should
turn out concert artists. The aim has been to make teachers
and leaders rather than concert performers, although there
is no doubt that the standards of performance demanded of
the graduates of the School are higher than they were three
years ago.
So far as the future is concerned, the past has pointed the
way to what must now be attempted. To do more rather than
less for the State of Illinois, is the present aim. Thruout the
State there is an urgent demand for young men and women
in the public schools who may work out the musical salvation
of their communities. Accordingly, everything possible is
being done to strengthen the Public School Music course and
to direct the attention of the more serious students to the
possibilities and demands of community music. As the facil-
ities increase and the faculty becomes larger, it is hoped that
there may be added some theoretical work which at present
must be omitted, some of an advanced nature, and also some
of an elementary kind to supply the deficiencies of those
high school students who have come from the more backward
communities. Eventually it may be possible to include grad-
uate work, especially in the history of music and composi-
tion, and to this end the library of the School is being built
up. The strategic situation of the University of Illinois and
the rapidly increasing importance of the Twin Cities as a
music center will soon bring to the School a large number of
the more desirable music students who will make its musical
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life more vigorous and more varied. To sacrifice the indi-
vidual character of the School would be a most serious mis-
take. Bather must it be developed along the lines of state
service and inspirational leadership. Possibly at some time
it may be wise to incorporate in the School of Music a depart-
ment of community music with a vigorous and experienced
leader. Such a department could be of use on the campus as
well as elsewhere.
9. The College of Education
Courses in Education and Psychology have been oflEered
at the University of Illinois, under various names, for nearly
every year since the University was organized. The second
catalog of the University announced a course in ''Mental Phil-
osophy, three lectures a week," and a course in ''Science of Edu-
cation, or Mental Philosophy applied to education, two lec-
tures a week. ''23 **The Philosophy of Education'' was one
of the topics listed in 1870-71 as comprising the work in
"Philosophy and Logic" for that year.** With slight modi-
fications the same announcements for the department of Mental
and Moral Philosophy were repeated up to and including the
year 1889-90. In 1890 a professor of Psychology was appointed,
who served for one semester. An assistant professor of "Psychol-
ogy and Pedagogics" was appointed in 1892, and for the follow-
ing year rather extensive oflEerings in these subjects were
announced. A full professorship in "Pedagogics" was estab-
lished in 1893. Three years later a new appointee to an assis-
tant professorship in "Pedagogy" was given also the title
of High School Visitor and assigned the duties of that position.
The word "Education" displaced "Pedagogy" in the an-
nouncement of courses and in the title of appointees in 1900-01.
From 1904 to 19182^
By 1905 the work in Education had become so important
that early in that year the Board of Trustees sanctioned the
"Catalog 1868-9, p. 13
"•Ibid., 1870-71, pp. 58-9
The data contained in the following paragraphs is chiefly summar-
ized from a special statement prepared by W. C. Bagley, Director of the
School from 1909 to 1917
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organization of a School of Education, with special reference
to the prei>aration of teachers for secondary schools. A Sen-
ate committee appointed by the President of the University
to study the question rei>orted that in the judgment of the
committee it was inadvisable to establish a school of educa-
tion separate in administration from the existing colleges. It
was recommended however that all members of the instruc-
tional staff of the University offering courses primarily in-
tended for the preparation of high school teachers should
be organized as a group, to be known as the Faculty of the
School of Education, and that such i>erson8 should constitute
committees from their respective colleges to represent those
colleges in the faculty of the school.**
The general suggestions contained in this rei>ort were
adopted as a basis for the organization of the School of Edu-
cation, and the School was formally announced in the Uni-
versity catalog of 1905-06.
During the fifteen years since the School was established
a number of educators of national prominence have served in
the School as members of the administrative or instructional
staff. The first director, Prof. Edwin Qrant Dexter, resigned
in 1907 to accept the commissionership of education to Porto
Rico. Dr. Edward 0. Sisson, after serving as assistant pro-
fessor in the School of Education for the year 1905-6 resigned
to become head of the Department of Education in the Uni-
versity of Washington, later becoming Commissioner of Edu-
cation of the State of Idaho. In 1908 Dr. William Chandler
Bagley was appointed professor of education, and a year later
was made director of the School. During his administration
the School of Education of the University of Illinois assumed
a place among the foremost schools of its class in the country.
Dr. Bagley resigned in 1917 to join the Department of Edu-
cation of Columbia University. Dr. Lewis Flint Anderson came
to the School in 1909 as assistant professor of education. He
resigned in 1914 to accept a professorship of education in the
Ohio State University. While at the University of Illinois Pro-
fessor Anderson had charge of the work in the history of
"Tlept., Univ. of DL, 1906, pp. 40, 43, 62, 75
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education. The Aron library, comprising 5,000 volomes and
10,000 pamphlets, and especially rich in materials concerning
the. development of edncation in Europe during the sixteenth,
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was purchased upon his
recommendation. He also began the development of a text-
book library and an educational museum. Dr. Lotus Delta
Goffman served as lecturer in the School for the year 1911-12,
and as professor of education from 1912 to 1915. In the latter
year he resigned to become Dean of the College of Education
of the University of Minnesota.
In 1913 Dr. Charles Hughes Johnston, Dean of The School
of Education of the University of Kansas, accepted a position
as professor of secondary education at the University of Illi-
nois. At the end of three years of distinguished service in this
capacity. Professor Johnston met his death in an automobile
accident in September, 1917.
Upon the resignation of Professor Coffman in 1915, Pro-
fessor Joseph Clifton Brown was appointed principal of the
training school, and placed in charge of the work in admin-
istration and supervision until the training school should be
opened. He resigned his position at the University of Illinois,
however, after one year of service, in order to become Presi-
dent of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota.
In 1914 Dr. Guy Montrose Whipple was made associate pro-
fessor of education and a year later was promoted to a profes-
sorship. His especial field at the University of Illinois has been
that of educational psychology, including the closely related
fields of mental tests, school hygiene and auxiliary education.
In 1914-15 he established the laboratory of educational psychol-
ogy. Dr. Whipple was granted leave of absence in June 1917,
for the first semester of 1917-18 to enable him to carry on cer-
tain investigations at Pittsburgh in connection with the develop-
ment of psychological tests. Dr. David Spence Hill, formerly
director of the Newcomb School of Education and of the de-
partment of educational research in the public school system
of New Orleans, was appointed at this time as acting professor
of education for the first semester of 1917-18.
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In March 1917 the Board of Trustees authorized the ap-
pointment of Dr. Werrett Wallace Charters, then professor
of the theory of teaching and dean of the faculty of educa-
tion of the University of Missouri, to be professor of educa-
tion at the University of Illinois from the beginning of the
academic year 1917-18.
On June 1, 1918, the Board of Trustees voted to erect the
School of Education into a separate College of Education. Dr.
Charters was appointed Dean, but he resigned this position to
accept a research appointment at Carnegie Institute of Tech-
nology.
On June 21, 1919, Dr. Charles Ernest Chadsey, then Super-
intendent of Schools in the City of Chicago, was appointed Dean
of the College of Education. He entered on his duties as Dean
in September, 1919, but resigned on November 17, to resume his
duties as Superintendent of Schools, on the receipt of notice that
a suit to compel the city authorities to permit him to exercise
the duties of the office had been decided in his favor. On
November 26, he returned to the University and withdrew his
resignation.
The chief emphasis during the fourteen years since the organ-
ization of the School of Education has been upon the advanced
undergraduate and graduate courses. These have been in-
creased and strengthened, and have attracted an increasing
number of graduate students. There were only three graduate
students majoring in education in 1903-04, none in 1907-08 and
only two in 1908-09. But this number was increased to 11
in 1909-10, and the numbers since that date have been succes-
sively 15, 18, 24, 35, 35, 27, 25, 22, 19, and 20. In the summer
sessions of 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919, there were 47, 43, 35, and
35 graduate students enrolled, respectively, who were majoring
in Education. The first doctor's degrees in Education were con-
ferred in 1915, on two candidates.
The following table indicates the growth of class regis-
trations in the School (and College) of Education since its organ-
ization :
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CLASS BEGISTRATIONS IN THE SCHOOL OP EDUCATION
Rrst
Second
Summer
Year
Semester
Semester
Session
Total
1905-06
103
128
231
1906-07
95
109
204
1907-08
80
79
159
1908-09
74
128
202
1909-10
127
167
294
1910-11
163
174
201
538
1911-12
149
180
190
519
1912-13
154
245
238
637
1913-14
291
336
348
975
1914-15
280
326
865
971
1915-16
412
444
457
1313
1916-17
460
479
345
1284
1917-18
393
395
295
1083
1918-19*
254—248—222
3761
4485
1919-20
693
656
...
1349
Just prior to the legislative session of 1911, the School in-
augurated a campaign for a building that would house a
training school of secondary grade. The campaign was un-
successful at this time, but the movement so clearly had the
support of practically the entire body of public school teachers
and administrators of the state, that, upon the appropriation
by the Legislature in 1913 of the proceeds of the mill tax to
the University, the Board of Trustees proceeded to acquire a
site and to consider plans for such a structure. The erection
of the building was repeatedly delayed, but actual construc-
tion was finally begun in 1916 and completed in 1919. Unfor-
tunately the lack of funds has prevented the opening of the
model school. 27
Since 1907 the School of Education has published a series
of 19 bulletins comprising (1) reports of the annual high
school conference and other meetings held at the University
in the interest of education and (2) the results of special
investigations and studies by members of the instructional staff
and by students.
*Tear divided into 3 quarters
''See also Chapters II and HI
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Another important development in the School of Education
has been the assumption and prosecution of the work of the
University Committee on Appointment of Teachers, This Com-
mittee ''recommends qualified graduates of the University for
positions as teachers or supervisors in public schools, colleges
and technical schools in response to requests from the school
authorities.**
Since 1914, the completion of certain specified courses in
education, amounting to a total of seven hours, has been re-
quired of all students who desire to obtain upon their gradua-
tion the recommendation of the Committee on Api>ointment8.
This is a smaller number of hours of professional work than
is required at most state universities, but it has been the policy
of this College not to stress heavily the strictly professional
work, but rather to insist that the prospective teacher should
have first of all a solid basis in academic scholarship.
Bureau of Educational Research
By authority of the Board of Trustees the Bureau of Edu-
cational Research was organized in 1918, and Dr. Burdette R.
Buckingham was appointed Director and Professor of Educa-
tion.*^ The purpose of this Bureau is ''investigating the prob-
lems of teaching and school administration, collecting informa-
tion concerning the best educational practises of this and other
countries, and placing the results obtained before the schools of
this state.*'
10. The College of Medicinb
Perhaps no department of the University of Illinois has
had so varied an experience during the past twelve years as the
College of Medicine.*^
The University of Illinois did not organize a medical school
at the beginning of its work in 1868. This was a great mis-
*Univ. of m. Annual Register, 1917-18, p. 190
**Minut68, Board of Trustees, 1916-18, p. 759
"The following paragraphs are taken for the most part from a Memor-
andum and a History of the College of Medicine prepaid by the Prendent
of the Universitj in 1912
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take from the standpoint of the interests of the commonwealth.
There is no doubt that the average level of medical education
in the state of Illinois would be much higher than it is today
and the public health would be much more adequately con-
servedy if the College of Medicine had been established and
properly supported at the time of the opening of the Uni-
versity.
During Governor Altgeld's administration, and largely
upon his initiative, an attempt was made to incorporate medi-
cal teaching in the general university scheme by annexing
to the University an existing medical school
Following the earnest suggestion of Qovemor Altgeld, who
had insisted that the people of Illinois desired that the Uni-
versity of Illinois should become a university in the fullest
and completest sense of that term, the Trustees of the Uni-
versity, after long and careful deliberation, made, with the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, a contract of
affiliation April 1, 1897, to go into effect April 24th of the
same year.
Under this contract the College of Physicians and Surgeons
turned over to the University the use of its plant in return
for a specified rental. The University in co-operation with
the faculty of the medical school which had been conducted
by the College of Physicians and Surgeons took over the re-
sponsibility of managing the school, making it, for practical
purposes, the medical department of the University of Illinois.
The trustees, however, did not assume any financial obli-
gations for the conduct of this experiment beyond using the
income from the fees of students and the gifts of private in-
dividuals for the support of the medical school. They simply
agreed to manage it and make as good a school as they could
with the proceeds arisiug from the sources mentioned.
The result was so satisfactory to both parties that a new
contract of affiliation was made, to go into effect May 1, 1900.
(It was modified in 1901.) Under this contract the College
of Physicians and Surgeons as a corporation, with the con-
sent of the Board of Trustees of the University, undertook
to enlarge the plant, which had been used for the medical
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school and which at that time consisted of the so-called Old
College Building at the comer of Honore and West Harrison
Streets, by purchasing the West Side High School building
from the city of Chicago at a cost of $186,000, and by remod-
eling it for medical purposes at a cost of $60,000.
The attendance at the medical school had risen so rapidly
during the first contract of affiliation that the parties to the
contract thought it would be a perfectly feasible thing to pay
the interest on money borrowed for the enlargement of the
plant, conduct a satisfactory medical school and accumulate
through an annual surplus a sinking fund sufficient to pay
off the debts which had been contracted for the original plant
and its enlargement — ^thus presenting the property to the State
free of encumbrance.
Nothing can show in a more striking way the world-wide
difference between the manner in which the American public
viewed the subject of medical education sixteen years ago and
that in which the public looks upon it today, than the conclusion
of such a contract, made at that time with common consent and
public approval.
Scarcely had the contract been signed, when the attendance
at medical schools, which had been running up very rapidly
thruout the country, began to decline quite as rapidly, through
circumstances over which the schools, as such, had no control.
Two other things combined to make the plan which had
been agreed upon by the University and the College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons entirely untenable. The public in its own
interest began to demand more rigorous requirements for ad-
mission to medical schools on the one hand ; and on the other,
a better grade of teaching and more adequate equipment in
the schools themselves. Both of these worked against the possi-
bility of continuing the contract of affiliation; for the require-
ment of higher standards of admission diminished the number of
students and therefore the income, while the demand for better
teaching increased the expense.
It became increasingly plain that without appropriations
from the state legislature the University could not hope to
conduct a medical school worthy of the name, and certainly
it ought not to be connected with any other kind of school
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A request was therefore made of the legislature at the
session of the 45th General Assembly, in 1905, for an appro-
priation to enable the University of Illinois to purchase the
plant which it had leased from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, or to construct or acquire some other plant. The
legislature appropriated by a large majority (thirty against
six in the Senate; eighty-nine against forty in the House),
the sum of $386,000 for the purpose of acquiring by purchase
or by construction, a medical plant.
The Governor vetoed this appropriation bill, along with
several others, on the ground that the legislature had exceeded
the amount of money available for appropriations.
Another attempt was made to carry on the medical de-
partment on the basis previously accepted. But it was again
made evident that this could not be done.
In 1911, therefore, the University once more asked the legis-
lature for an appropriation: this time an appropriation of
$100,000 per annum for the maintenance, extension and de-
velopment of the medical school.
The legislature by a large majority (unanimous in the
House and thirty to two in the Senate) granted sixty thou-
sand dollars per annum, and the (Governor signed the bill.
However, certain persons who were opposed to the idea of
state support in medical education, brought suit to set aside
the appropriation on the ground that the provision of the con-
stitution in regard to the passage of bills had not been strictly
observed. The court sustained the contention and the Uni-
versity lost the money.
It became evident to the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons that the University would probably find it diflScult to
carry out the financial obligations involved in the payment
of the lease, and it therefore gave notice to the Trustees of
the University of Illinois that it would no longer lease its medi-
cal plant to the University of Illinois. Being thus deprived
of the plant which it had been using for fifteen years and
having no money with which to hire or construct another, the
University was compelled to close its medical school; which
it did on the 30th day of June, 1912.
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The College of PhysicianB and Snrgeong immediately
opened a medical school in the same plant on the day after
the University closed its medical school, and admitted the
students of the University medical school to the new schooL
This closing of the medical department of the University
caused great consternation among the alumni of the medical
department and in general among the friends of advanced
medical education thruout the state. These latter immediately
bestirred themselves in the matter, and finally, on August 23,
1912, asked the Trustees of the University whether they would
accept the property of the College of Physicians and Surgeons
if the alumni and other friends of medical education would
secure the stock of the corporation and present the property
to the trustees.
After mature deliberation, upon September 19, 1912, the
trustees voted that they would accept the property if the stock
should be delivered in a block on or before the first day of
February, 1913.
On January 31, 1913, the chairman of the committee which
had been entrusted with this work, presented to the president
of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, the
entire stock of the College of Ph3rsicians and Surgeons. It had
been acquired by the committee, partly through donations from
the persons owning the stock, and partly through purchase
with funds raised by private subscription among the friends
of medical education.
Thus the conditions specified by the board were met and,
therefore, at the meeting on February 12, 1913, the Trustees
voted to accept the property of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, subject to the mortgage indebtedness resting upon
the property amounting to $245,000 with an interest charge
of $14,320, disclaiming at the same time all responsibility for
the payment of such indebtedness.
The Trustees at the same time directed the President of
the University to reopen the medical school in the plant thus
acquired, which was done Thursday, March 6, 1913. At this
time the deeds and bill of sale to the property, real and i>er-
sonal, and the stock, together with the charter belonging to
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the corporation, were turned over to the Trustees of the Uni-
versity of Illinois and accepted by the President of the Board
on their behalf.
The University of Illinois admitted to the medical school,
thus reopened, the students of that school which the College
of Physicians and Surgeons had established in the plant the
day after the University had closed its school. Since then
the University has conducted the school as an integral part
of its organization, under the name of the College of Medi-
cine of the University of Illinois.
In 1913 the faculty was reorganized and a considerable
number of the most noted men in the profession were added
to the instructional and the investigative staff.
In 1913 the requirements for admission to the College of
Medicine were advanced to include a year of college work
in addition to the completion of a four-year high school course.
For the year 1914-15 a second year of college work was added
as a prerequisite for entrance. At the end of the first two
years of the four-year curriculum in Medicine the degree of
Bachelor of Science is conferred; and at the completion of
the curriculum, the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
The first year's work in Medicine may now be taken at
Urbana.
The urgent need of the College of Medicine for a clinical
building is about to be met by virtue of an agreement between
the University and the State Department of Public Welfare,
approved July 12, 1919, whereby the Department agreed to
purchase land and to erect a group of hospitals in Chicago, and
the University agreed to supply the staff officers, research work-
ers, and clinical faculty for the hospitals and to turn over to
the department the sum of $300,000 specially appropriated by
the General Assembly in 1919 for a clinical building.*
The hospitals and units to be constructed include :
The Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, to provide
medical and surgical treatment for all indigent residents of
Illinois who are afflicted with diseases of the eye, ear, nose, or
throat.
'Minutes, Board of Trustees, 1918-20, pp. 487-409
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The State Pflychiatric Institute, for the study of the nature
and treatment of mental disorders.
The Illinois Surgical Institute for Children, to furnish to
indigent children, residents of Illinois, who are physically de-
formed, treatment, training, and education.
The State Institute for Juvenile Research, to provide for the
study of the nature and treatment of behavior difficulties in
minors.
The University Clinical Institute, for the study of the causa-
tion, prevention, alleviation, and cure of disease.
The University, through its College of Medicine is to have
the use of the clinical facilities of said hospitals for teaching
purposes and research work.
The University is to appoint and control the professional
staff of the hospitals, physicians, surgeons, internes, laboratory
technicians, librarians, and assistants for the treatment of pa-
tients and for teaching and research purposes. It shall control
the work of the nurses, ward attendants, and all others in so
far as this work is strictly medical.
The University is to provide courses of instruction in medical
and allied subjects for workers in the Department, such as train-
ing schools for nurses, occupational therapists, social workers,
dietitians, and others as may from time to time be agreed upon
between the contracting parties.
The University is to consult with and advise the Department
and the Department is to consult with the University as to the
needs of the University for teaching and research facilities in
the buildings erected or to be erected.
The state and the nation are largely indebted to Director
Charles H. Thome, of the Department of Public Welfare for
the development of this plan, which will constitute one of the
greatest endowments for medical education and research ever
provided.
11. The College op Dentistbt
A School of Dentistry was organized by the University in
1901 as a department of the College of Medicine.* ^ In 1905
"Ecpt., Univ. of in., 1902, p. 54
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the name of the School was formally changed to the College
of Dentistry.**
During the year 1912-13 the College of Dentistry was closed,
by reason of the failure of the Legislature to appropriate funds
for its maintenance. Up to that year the College had been
supported by the income derived from fees, but these were
found to be no longer adequate to make it possible to conduct
a college of high grade. A year later the College was reopened,
its support being provided for upon the same basis as are the
other departments of the University.
The College of Dentistry occupies a six-story building on
the corner of Harrison and Honore Streets in Chicago.
In 1904 the completion of one year of high school work
was required for admission to the College of Dentistry. Dur-
ing the next sixteen years the requirements for entrance ad-
vanced to include the completion of fifteen units of prepara-
tory work in an accredited high school or academy or a state
normal school.
During the same period the course of study was revised
and improved, additions were made to the equipment of the
laboratories and the operating rooms, and the faculty strength-
ened in numbers and in personnel.
In spite of the general decrease in the number of students
enrolled in medical and dental colleges within the past few
years, the enrolment of the College of Dentistry of the Uni-
versity of Illinois increased from 163 in 1906 to 196 in 1920,
a gain of 33, or about 20 per cent.
12. The School of Phabmaoy
The School of Pharmacy was established in 1896. In that
year the Chicago College of Pharmacy which had been founded
in 1859 offered to turn over to the University all its property
on the condition that the University would accept the gift and
maintain the School as a branch of the University. The offer
was accepted and the transfer accomplished May 2, 1896.^^
In 1904 the School was removed to the comer of Michigan
Boulevard and Twelfth Street where it occupied the four upper
"Ibid., 1906, p. 61
"•Kept, Univ. of HL, 1896, pp. 238, 240
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iBiooTs of a building having a frontage of 50 feet on the boule-
vard and a depth of 170 feet, until June 1916. In that month
it was removed to a building just previously purchased by
the University at the comer of Wood and Floumoy Streets.
To meet the demand for special training on the part of stu-
dents desiring to pursue more extended courses in pharmaceuti-
eal chemistry, applied microscopy and bacteriology, or to pre-
pare themselves for positions under the Food and Drugs Act,
a curriculum was established in 1908 leading to the degree of
Pharmaceutical Chemist. This curriculum includes all the
didactic instruction given in the shorter curriculum, but em-
braces certain additional subjects and a considerably larger
amount of laboratory work.
For the year 1904-5 the entrance requirements for the School
of Pharmacy consisted of the completion of a grammar school
course. From 1908 to 1913, one year of high school work was
required for enrolment as a candidate for the degree of Grad-
uate in Pharmacy. This requirement was raised in 1914 to
the completion of two years' work in an accredited high school,
and since 1916 15 units have been required. For admission
to the curriculum leading to the degree of Pharmaceutical
Chemist 15 units have been required since the establishment
of this curriculum in 1908.
The enrolment in the School of Pharmacy for the year
1896-7 was 181. In 1903-4 the number was 185. During the
sixteen years from 1904 to 1920 the number varied consider-
ably from year to year, ranging from 150 in 1904-05 to a
maximum of 259 in 1907-8. In 1919-20 the total number of
students enrolled was 209.
13. The Suhmeb Session
A summer session, as a part of the work of the University,
was given consideration by the faculty and the Trustees as
early as 1892,^* but the experiment was first tried in 1894.
In that year thirty students were enrolled. For the following
summer there were but twenty-seven students enrolled, and
••Eept., Univ. of HI., 1892, p. 199
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the Director of the session in his report to the Trustees, the
following September, expressed doubt as to the advisability of
its continuance.^^
It was not until 1899 that an attempt was again made to
hold a session during the summer. Upon the receipt of resolu-
tions of the Southern Illinois Educational Association and a
petition from teachers in southern lUinois for vacation work
at the University, the question of reestablishing a summer term
was again given consideration, with the result that plans were
made for a session of nine weeks for the summer of that year.'^
This session was distinctly successful, a total of 148 students
being enrolled.
The summer terms were continued and by the summer of
1904 the number of students had reached 238. During the past
sixteen years there has been an almost constant annual in-
crease in the enrolment, the number in 1916 being 1,147, a gain
of 909, or over 380 per cent for the period. For 1917, because
of conditions arising from the War, the enrolment fell to 833.
In 1919, the total rose to 1,314 students.
The purpose of the summer session is thus stated in the
bulletin for 1920 :»t
''The iSummer Session is an organized integral part of the
University year. Though its organization is not subdivided
into colleges, numerous courses are offered by departments in
the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Commerce, Agricul-
ture, Engineering, and in the School of Music and the Library
School. All courses may be counted toward an A.B. or B.S.
degree, or toward a master's degree, unless otherwise specified.
By two Summer Sessions a regular student may reduce the
eight semesters to seven, thus securing his degree a half year
earlier than he would otherwise have done.
''One of the primary purposes of the Summer Session is to
meet the needs of the teachers in the public schools who wish
to spend a part of the summer vacation in serious study or
investigation. Numerous courses are designed particularly for
•Ibid., 1896, p. 165
"Ibid., 1900, pp. 28, 62
•TJniv. of lU. Bulletin, Vol XVII, No. 20, p. 7
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high-school teachers, supervising officers, teachers of special
subjects (agriculture, art, household science, manual training,
music, etc.), and coaches of athletic teams; graduate courses
are offered for college instructors, school supervisors and prin-
cipals who are working for advanced degrees.''
A comparison of the foregoing statement with that con-
tained in the summer session bulletin for 1904 reveals the
fact that in 1904 a part of the courses offered were for stu-
dents who were preparing to enter the University, or who
wished to do work of a preparatory grade in order to remove
entrance conditions; whereas in 1920 the work offered was
with very few exceptions of a strictly collegiate or university
grade. This fact is further indicated by a comparison of the
requirements for admission at the two periods. The announce-
ment of the 1904 session stated:^® *'No examinations or other
conditions will be placed upon admission. All who can do
the work are welcome to get what they can from it. Those
who can meet the requirements may matriculate in the Univer-
sity if they desire, and in that event, upon examination, may
receive credits to apply upon regular University courses."
For admission to the 1920 session the requirements were sub-
stantially the same as those in force during the regular school
year.
The tuition fee for the summer session has remained the
same throughout the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920. In 1904,
however, no free scholarships were available to students. At
a meeting of the Board of Trustees held January 17, 1905, the
President presented a request from the Director of the Summer
School, that a free scholarship in the summer session of 1905
be offered each accredited high school in the state. It was
voted that a free scholarship should be granted to some repre-
sentative of as many high schools in the state as the President
of the University should deem wise.^® A similar request for
the summer session of 1906 was approved by the Trustees
December 19, 1905.*^ At a meeting of the Trustees held June
27, 1906,** it was recommended that in connection with the
"Univ. of lU. Bulletin, April 1, 1904, p. 167
"Kept., Univ. of lU., 1906, pp. 37-38
*Tl>id., p. 295
«Ibid., p. 886
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summer term to be held in 1907, **the University establish a
free scholarship (a) for all persons who have taught during
the year 1906-7 in the high schools of the State of Illinois;
and (b) for all other persons who have taught in the schools
of Illinois during the year 1906-7, and who may be able to
qualify for full admission to the University in either of the
Colleges, Literature and Arts, Science, or Engineering." The
recommendation was approved by the Board, and the scholar-
ships have up to the present time been granted annually on
the same conditions. In addition, summer session scholarships
have been granted since 1910*^ to those persons (otherwise
qualified) who have contracts to teach during the following
school year and to those who graduate from the various state
normal schools in Illinois in June of the year in which the
summer session is held. As a result of these endeavors of the
University to promote the general educational interests of the
state, about half of the total number annually enrolled in the
summer session consists of high school and public school teach-
ers of Illinois in active service.
The summer sessions have grown in strength and value
year by year. In 1904 the facidty consisted of thirty-three
members; in 1919, of one hundred and fourteen. There were
three visiting professors from other universities who gave regu-
lar courses in 1904, and five in 1919. The relative strength
of the faculty in these two years may be seen from the fol-
lowing table :
PACULTT IN SUMMEE SESSION
1904 AND 1919
1904 1919
Vidting Professors 3 6
Besident Professors 3 26
Associate Professors 3
Assistant Professors 10 19
Associates 18
Instructors 16 25
Assistants 1 15
Lecturers 3
Total 33 114
«Ibid., 1910, p. 545
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The number and variety of the conrses offered in the sum-
mer session of 1919 showed a marked increase over those
offered in 1904. Opportunity was given in 1904 for work in
twenty different departments; and in the 1919 session, in thirty-
seven departments.
In addition to the regular courses of instruction offered
in 1904, several general lectures were delivered by visiting
educators. These comprised five on the Monroe Doctrine, five
on English literature, and twenty-five on the principles of
education. In 1917 the incidental exercises of general interest
were of a varied nature. Forty-eight general lectures were
given by members of the regular staff and by visiting educa-
tors; sixteen on recent advances in physics; eleven on recent
history, with special reference to the war; two on food con-
servation; five on the teaching of English; three on stars,
nebidae and eclipses; two on birds and bird music; one on the
Near Bast; and the others on various topics. The Cobum
players gave three open-air performances ; there were two con-
vocations, five recitals, seven vesper services, seven ''campus
sings," and several conferences of teachers, princiuals and su-
perintendents.
Graduate Work in the Summer Session
A recent feature of the summer session work especially
deserving of notice is the increased opportunity afforded stu-
dents for pursuing graduate study and securing the degree
of Master of Arts. Thus the announcement for the 1920 ses-
sion*8 stated that:
"In recent summer sessions the University has placed in-
creasing emphasis upon graduate courses leading to the Mas-
. ter's degree. The departments which are closely related to
high-school teaching and to educational administration have been
selected as the centers of this emphasis. An attempt is made
to vary the graduate offerings from year to year so that advanced
students who attend the University summer after summer may
continue to find acceptable work in their chosen fields.
"Graduate students in the Summer Session are subject to
the same scholastic requirements as those in the regular Uni-
*nJmv. of m. BuUetin, Vol. XVII, No. 20, p. 10
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verdty year. Their study lists must be approved by the Dean
of the Oraduaie School, or his representative, in 109 Commerce
Building. Attendance on four summer sessions, or one semester
and two summer sessions, is considered the equivalent of one
year in residence. If in these sessions the required amount of
work is properly done a master's degree may be earned in
this way.
**No course offered in the Summer Session may be taken for
credit towards a higher degree unless it is specially described in
the Summer Session circular as accepted for that purpose.
** Students working for their masters' degrees in the Summer
Session must announce their thesis subjects not later than the
beginning of their third session in residence.
** Graduate courses in medical sciences are offered in the
summer quarter between June and September at the College
of Medicine of the University of Illinois in Chicago."
Summer Courses in Library Training
During the first six weeks of the summer session since 1911
the Library School has offered a series of courses in Library
training. These are not given in connection with the regular
summer session of the University, but as an independent under-
taking of the Library School.
To this course are admitted ''only high school graduates
actually employed as librarians, or library assistants, or
teacher-librarians, or under definite appointment to serve in
such position." The curriculum is planned to meet especially
the needs of workers in public libraries and in high school
libraries of Illinois and no tuition fee is charged students enter-
ing from this State ; students entering from libraries in other
states pay a tuition fee of $12. The work is under the gen-
eral direction of the faculty of the Library School, and the
instruction is given by members of the faculty, supplemented
by lectures by neighboring librarians. No university credit
is granted for this course.
''The work is designed to occupy the whole time of the
student. The number of lectures in each subject is approxi-
mately as follows: cataloging, 20; classification and book
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numbers, 13; book selection, 14; administration of small
libraries, 10; reference work, 10; work with children, 10; loan
systems, order, accession and shelf work, binding and re-
pair, 13."**
Up to the present time 229 persons have availed themselves
of the privileges afforded by the summer library courses, of
whom 161 were from Illinois libraries.
SUMliEB WOBK AT HAVANA
In the summer of 1910 an interesting experiment was tried.
It consisted of furnishing instruction in certain sciences at the
Illinois Biological Station at Havana, Illinois. The students
at the Station had as their field of observation **the banks
and waters of the Illinois River itself, a series of lakes, streams
and bayous of the vicinity, and the bottoms, bluffs and uplands
adjacent, presenting a great variety of situations unusually
rich in all plant and animal forms, and convenient of access
from the station grounds."***
The work was carried on under the direction of a faculty
of twelve members. Eight courses were offered in botany, three
in education, one in microscopical technique, two in physical
geography and six in zoology. About sixty students were in
attendance during the session.
The School for Athletic Coaches
In connection with the summer session of the University,
the department of physical training for men has since 1914
held a School for Athletic Coaches. This School was designed
primarily to give instruction in the best methods of coaching
the most popular competitive sports in college and high
school — baseball, football, basketball and track and field ath-
letics. In addition a course of instruction on playgrounds and
their direction is provided.
The instruction in each course includes both theory and
practical demonstration. The instructional staff is composed
of the men in charge of the several athletic teams of the Uni-
•*Umv. of lU. Buaiettn, Vol. XTV, No. 34, pp. 16-17
•Univ. of HI. Bulletin, Vol. Vn, No. 12, Nov. 21, 1909
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versity. As many as two hundred fifty persons have been
enrolled in one or more courses in a single year.
14. The Military Department includinq also The Uni-
versity's Part in the War
In 1904-5 the military department of the University regis-
tered a total of 844 men, of whom 41 were officers. There was
one regiment of infantry, composed of field staff band^ and
ten companies. There was also an artillery company.
The military department of the University registered a
total of 2,217 students in 1915-16, 2,279 in 1916-17, 1,285
in 1917-18, 3,385, in 1918-19, and 1,407 in 1919-20. During
1915-16 and the first semester of 1916-17 the military organiza-
tion consisted of two regiments of infantry, composed of twelve
companies each ; a foot battery of artillery, a signal company,
an engineer company, a hospital company, two bands, a trumpet
and drum corps, and a reserve band.
At the beginning of the second semester of 1916-17 an
infantry unit, a signal unit and an engineer unit of the Senior
Division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, were established
in accordance with the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916.
The present organization is therefore as follows : One infantry
unit, Senior Division, B. 0. T. C, composed of two regiments
of three battalions of four companies each, two headquarters
companies, two supply companies and two machine gun com-
panies; a band for each regiment and a reserve band; one
signal unit, Senior Division, R. 0. T. C, consisting of one com-
pany; and one engineer unit. Senior Division, R. 0. T. C,
consisting of one company.
Up to and including the year 1915-16 there was but one
commissioned officer of the United States Army stationed at
the University. In 1916-17 there were five commissioned offi-
cers, three non-commissioned officers from the active list and
four retired non-commissioned officers assigned to duty here.
Shortly after the declaration of war all of these officers except
those upon the retired list were ordered to various training
camps. In addition to the enlarged personnel of United States
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ploy the services of several cadet officers. In 1917-18 seventeen
such officers were appointed assistants in Military Science as
against three in 1904.
Expenditures on account of military have greatly increased
in the last sixteen years. During the biennium 1913-15 ap-
proximately $227,920 was expended upon a new armory. To
complete it will require at least $250,000 more. ''For inci-
dental expenses, military scholarships, for the Armory and
other buildings to be used by the military, an amount about equal
to the original federal grant ($600,000) to the University has
been expended by the state to build up the Military Depart-
ment of its University. "*•
In addition to this work in military tactics, which the
Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 expressly included as one
of the subjects to be taught in the land grant colleges, the
University contributed materially to the preparation under-
taken by the federal government for active participation in
the war. Upon the entrance of the United States into the
War, the President of the University telegraphed to the Gov-
ernor of the State offering the use of the scientific labora-
tories and other equipment of the University to the Federal
Government. This offer was promptly acknowledged by the
President of the United States, and various demands were made
on the resources of the University in consequence.
Military Units and Courses
Perhaps the University's most direct contribution toward
this end has been in organizing units and courses specifically
military in character.
In 1915 a battery was organized among the faculty and
students of the University which became known as Battery F
of the First Regiment of Illinois Field Artillery. On June
20, 1916, the battery was ordered to entrain for Springfield
from whence it moved to Texas. Almost exactly a year later,
June 29, 1917, it again received orders from the Central De-
partment directing immediate mobilization for active service,
^^esponse of the University to the Call of War by Dr. B. E. Powell,
University of Illinois Bulletin No. 52
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and on July 10 it left Champaign, this time to begin prepara-
tion for overseas service. Pour months later it arrived in
France.
On July 2, 1917, ambulance units 109, 110 and 111, con-
sisting of 36 men each, and recruited at the University in
response to a call from the War Department, entrained for
Allentown, Pennsylvania, to go into an army training camp
prior to departure for France. Of the 108 men in these units
88 were Illinois alumni or students.
In the period from April 23 to June 28, the University
offered special courses in Business Organization and Operation
designed to prepare students for the Ordnance and the Quar-
termaster Corps. These courses enrolled in all about 120 stu-
dents, the majority of whom promptly enlisted in the Federal
service after completing this work.**^
The most extensive military instruction undertaken up to
June 30, 1918, was that given in the School of Military Aero-
nautics, the organization of which was authorized by the Board
of Trustees on May 1, 1917. The University had already begun
work in this field, having established a chair of Aeronautics
in 1916. Prom May 20, 1917, the Government sent to the School
each week a group of men enlisted in the Aviation Corps. The
course of study first prescribed for these men was of eight
weeks duration, but in March, 1918, the Government extended
this period of study by four weeks and doubled the weekly
class enrolment. The curriculum at this time included such
subjects as the construction and operation of machine guns
and aircraft engines, the rigging of airplanes, artillery observa-
tion, wireless telegraphy, map reading, reconnaissance, meteor-
ology, astronomy, contact patrol, bombing, cross country fly-
ing, theory of flight, types of machines, military law, mili-
tary hygiene and sanitation, infantry drill regulations, army
regulations, paper work, military organization, the latter sub-
ject including the form of the present German, British, French
and American armies. Upon completing this work cadets were
trained in the actual use of the airplane at the various aviation
flying fields.
''Besponse of the Univeraity to the Call of War by Dr. B. E. Powell,
University of Ulinois Bulletin No. 62
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Wlien the School opened, the Armory was placed at its
disposal, and men were quartered as well as instructed there.
Later, the Y. M. C. A. building was equipped for a permanent
barracks, and when it would no longer accommodate all the
cadets, the Women's Residence Hall was turned over to them.
This was on November 15, just a few days after the building
had been completed.
On February 16, 1918, the President presented to the Board
of Trustees a request from the Federal Board for Vocational
Education, asking the University to undertake the education
of conscripted men from the army of the United States, as
mechanicians. The Trustees gave him authority to co-operate
with the Federal Board in this matter, and it was immediately
announced that the University would undertake to provide
training in any mechanical line which the government desired,
for five thousand men. This action on the part of the Uni-
versity resulted in the establishment of the Students Army
Training Corps in the autumn of 1918.
In addition to the instruction already mentioned, several
so-called war courses were introduced during the second semes-
ter of 1917-18, and of these perhaps the largest was that given
in Red Cross work. The course extended from April 23, to
June 1, and enrolled 140 students. It was conducted by a
registered Red Cross nurse, by members of the faculty, and
by practising physicians, and included instruction in first aid,
surgical supplies, home nursing, field problems and dietetics.*®
Students' Army Training Corps*®
The Students' Army Training Corps was organized by the
Committee on Education and Special Training, a committee of
the War Department, composed of army officers and civilian
educators, created for the purpose of educating and training
men for service in the United States Army. Units of the S. A.
T. C. were established in five hundred and fifty universities,
colleges, and schools throughout the United States. The mini-
•Ttesponse of the University to the Call of War by Dr. B. E. Powell^
University of Illinois Bulletin No. 62
•Annual Register, 1918-19, p. 425
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mum number of students required was two hundred, and the
maximum thirty-five hundred. The corps was divided into two
sections, class A, those who received an academic education, and
class B, those who received instruction in mechanical trades.
The necessary educational requirements for class A students
was a certificate of graduation from some high school of merit
and for class B students a completion of the eight grades in
grammar school.
The S. A. T. C. Unit established at the University of Illinois
was class A entirely. It was organized October 1, 1918, and
work started immediately. The induction of the men into the
service began October 6, 1918. The Unit was organized into
fifteen companies of two hundred men each, and eleven hours
weekly were devoted to military drill and instruction.
The men were fully equipped, and regularly enlisted in the
United States Army. They were under strict military discipline
at all times. The study was supervised by the military authori-
ties and was made compulsory.
In order to subsist and quarter such a large number of men,
the University of Illinois went to great expense in completely
flooring the Armory and installing a modern kitchen which con-
tained the most improved equipment, such as steam tables,
ranges, boilers, meat and bread slicers, and electric dish-washers.
This work was delayed somewhat on account of embargoes at
that time on the transportation of materials, but through per-
sistence and untiring energy on the part of the University
Executive Department every obstacle was overcome and this
vast undertaking began to function in time to take care of the
men as rapidly as they reported.
There were twenty-six hundred students enrolled in the Army
section, four hundred in the Navy section, in Urbana, and three
hundred and eighty-five in the University of Illinois College of
Medicine at Chicago.
The academic courses were divided into groups and the cur-
riculum arranged so as to cover subjects of value to the various
arms of the service, and the men could elect the group or course
of study desired.
Those eligible for admission into the S. A. T. C. had to be
over eighteen years of age and under twenty-one. Induction
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was made by the voluntary application of the man to his local
board, and this was completed by the board of transfer after
the man had passed a thoro physical examination by army
surgeons.
Organization had been completed and the men were rapidly
developing into valuable material for the Army, and several
hundred students had already been transferred to the various
Central Officers' Training Schools when the armistice was
signed, shortly after which orders were received to demobilize;
and this was done December 21, 1918.
Wab Service Beg(»d6
Early in 1917 the University authorities were confronted
with a difficult problem. Students had become restless and
were manifesting a growing desire to participate actively in
the war. During the spring 1,262 of them withdrew to engage
in war work of one form or another. In the face of this situa-
tion it became evident that some action would have to be taken
in order to provide credit for those courses successfully pur-
sued to the date of the student's withdrawal. Accordingly the
Council of Administration pn April 17 passed these two im-
portant rulings :
(1) If any member of the senior class now in line for
graduation enters upon specific service for the national de-
fense, approved by a special committee of the Council of
Administration, he shall be given credit for the full semester's
work and shall be recommended for graduation.
(2) Any other student who enters upon specific service
for the national defense, approved by a special committee of
the Council of Administration, shall be given full credit for
the semester's work in all courses in which he has been doing
passing work at the time of his leaving; in other courses he
shall be marked "withdrawn."
The following statement summarizes the participation of
the University's graduates, students and faculty in the military
and naval service to June 5, 1918.*^
••Report of University War Committee, Univ. of lU. Bulletin No. 49,
p. 6.
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DISTBIBUTION THEUOUT THE DIPPBEBNT ABMS OF
THE SEBYICE
Abmt 8,699 90.1%
Navy 850 8.8%
MABIN18 48 1.1%
DISTEIBUTION THBUOUT THE VAMOUS BRANCHES
Abmy
Ambulanee Corps 117 Machine Gnn Corps 89
Ayiation Corps 522 Medical Corps 178
Cavalry 18 Musicians 15
Coast Artillery 160 Officers' Schools 207
Engineering Corps 296 Ordnance Corps 175
Field Artillerj 864 Quartermaster Corps 178
Ghis Defense Service 24 Signal Corps 107
Infantry 682 Branch Unknown 477
Total 8,599
Navy
Badio Corps 48
Other Branches 270
Officers' Schools 82
Total 850
Marinis 48
Grand Total 8,992
How liberally IHinois faculty and students subscribed to
the Qovemment Loans and the War Belief campaigns, may
be judged from the following table which lists the most im-
portant of those drives conducted in the University district
between April, 1917 and June, 1919.
It is interesting to note that the University of Illinois held
third place among ten representative institutions thruout the
country in its subscription to the Third Liberty Loan. In
total subscriptions it was surpassed by Chicago and Yale.
However, its faculty subscription not only doubled that of the
Chicago faculty but exceeded the faculty subscription in each
of the other institutions.
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Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois
Dftte
Appor- Amount Overgub-
^^^V^fP^ tioned Subecribed scribed
Belgian Children Belief Fund.. $ 6,000 $13,625.02 127%
University Ambulance Fund... 10,000.00
Second Liberty Loan 55,000X>0
Y. M. C. A. Army Fund 20,000 28,960.88 44.8%
Bed Cross Subscription 3,800.00
American and Syrian Belief... 5,928.09
War Savings Stamps 25,000.00
Third Liberty Loan 100,000 220,000.00 120%
Second Bed Cross Fund 4,000 10,581.23 164.5%
Fourth Liberty Loan 314,000.00
United War Work Fund 46,821.00
Armenian and Syrian Belief 2,514.36
Victory Loan 86,300.00
Total subscribed $822,530.58
April, 1917
April, 1917
October, 1917
November, 1917
To January 1, 1918
1917-18
February, 1918
April, 1918
May, 1918
November, 1918
November, 1918
January, 1919
April, 1919
Since there was no apportionment of the University district
for the First Liberty Loan this item does not appear in the
above table.
Mention should be made of the work carried on by the
Woman's War Relief Committee, the most active and success-
ful student organization canvassing the University for funds
in connection with the war. From the money which this com-
mittee collected during the year 1917-18, it made donations to
the amount of $2,031.23.
MlSCELLANEOXTS ACTIVITIES
Aside from its organization of military units and courses,
as well as its subscriptions to the various campaigns enum-
erated above, the University made other contributions which,
though less extensive and direct, were distinctly valuable in
promoting the work of national defense. Of these perhaps the
one most outstanding was the preparation of certain chemi-
cals indispensable for the manufacture of munitions, nickel
steels, etc. The stocks of many organic chemicals which were
imported from Germany before the war had been completely
exhausted, and during the year 1917-18, more than 100 dif-
ferent chemicals were made. Among the most important of
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these may be mentioned dimethylgloxine, nitroso betanaphthol,
cuperron, nitron and ninhydrin. At the outset it was thought
that the business resulting from the sales of these products
would amount to about $1,000, whereas during the summer
of 1917 alone, the sales totaled approximately $5,000.
On March 3, 1917, a branch of the Intercollegiate Intelli-
gence Bureau was organized at the University of Illinois, with
Assistant Dean H. W. Miller of the College of Engineering as
Adjutant. The purpose of this Bureau was to create machinery
which would operate to bring all the existing college and uni-
versity agencies into direct contact with the proper Depart-
ment of the National Government without duplication of ef-
fort. Questionnaires were promptly sent to 13,500 alumni and
students, and the information received from these was placed
upon permanent record cards under 102 general heads. Within
30 days after the U. S. declared war, 3,860 of these cards were
upon file and ready for use. To the first emergency case from
the United States Civil Service Commission, Illinois responded
with a good list of names, and several men immediately began
their work in the positions offered. Urgent calls then came
from the Ordnance Department for trained inspectors, clerks
And instrument men. On May 9, 1917, the Bureau was asked
to recruit from the University two ambulance units, and on
May 26, an additional unit was called for. It was about this
time that the University organized its School of Military Aero-
nautics, and since the undertaking demanded the services of
those connected with the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau,
the activities of the Bureau were greatly decreased during the
summer months. However, in the latter part of August, the
Government announced that it would increase its programs
in aviation, shipbuilding, ordnance, chemistry and finance ; and
430 during the winter of 1917-18 Adjutant H. H. Jordan, who
in August replaced Professor Miller, found a renewed demand
for the services of his Bureau. Registrants were supplied with
information concerning the organization of the different Na-
tional Departments and also the work which was being done
at the officers' training schools. On March 15, 1918, the Uni-
versity was notified of the merging of the Intercollegiate
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Bureau into the War Service Exchange which was then under
the supervision of the Adjutant General's Office. Thereafter
the co-operation of the University with the War Department
consisted largely in classifying its graduates who intended to
enter the service either as regular army or navy men or as
civilians.
The extension division of the Household Science Depart-
ment organized for a food conservation campaign. During the
year 1917-18 the division served 20 types of organizations thru-
out the state reaching through them more than 70,000 house-
keepers. The campaign which has been launched by this di-
vision was carried on locally since January 1, 1918, by a sub-
committee of the University War Committee.^^
On September 11, 1917, the Board of Trustees authorized
the President to take out, on behalf of the University, a mem-
bership in the American University Union. The object of
this organization was to furnish social facilities to graduates
of American universities connected with the military and naval
forces in Europe. In March, 1917, the Union asked the Uni-
versity of Illinois to contribute $1,000 towards the support of
the Paris Branch Union. The Trustees requested that the
Alumni be invited to subscribe this amount, and accordingly
the matter was turned over to the Chairman of the University
War Committee. The campaign which was conducted under
his direction netted in all $1,506.50.^2
As the University continued to participate in an ever in-
creasing number of war activities, it became evident that there
should be some centralization of effort as well as a general
supervision over all University agencies seeking to promote
war work among faculty and students. Therefore, the Board
of Trustees in December, 1917, authorized the appointment
of a University War Committee whose duty it should be to
coordinate and energize University war activities, to endeavor
to place students and alumni where they could best serve the
•^tlesponse of the University to the CaU of War by Dr. B. E. PoweU,
University of Illinois Bulletin No. 52
■•Report of the War Ck>mmittee, University of Illinois Bulletin No»
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Qovernment and to give the proper publicity necessary to make
the whole work efficient.*^
This committee, of which the Vice President of the Uni-
versity was made Chairman, organized at once 17 divisional
committees and began its work. Under its direction 14 war
leaflets were published, most of them in editions of 50,000.
Beginning April 24, 1918, news bulletins were sent out every
Saturday to approximately 450 newspapers of Illinois and
adjoining states. By May 9, a total of 182 war talks had been
delivered before various student organizations. Under its su-
pervision the University on February 18, dedicated a service
flag in recognition of those among its alumni and students
who had been called to the colors. In addition to these specific
activities noteworthy service was rendered by the divisional
committees on legal advice to drafted men, conservation and
economy and University war employment.
15. University op Illinois Press
The University of Illinois Press was organized in 1918 to
have charge of the work of editing, printing, and distributing
the publications of the University.^* Mr. Harrison E. Cunning-
ham was appointed Director. An editorial oflSce has been es-
tablished and some printing machinery has been installed.
The University publishes through its departments and allied
scientific bureaus and experiment stations 18 series of bulletins
and circulars, besides the publications of the Graduate School,
which are listed in another place.^*^ Among the noteworthy
books published by the University are : Eonungs Skuggsja, the
main manuscript of, by Professor G. T. Flom; The Genus
Phoradendron, by Professor William Trelease; The Life of the
Pleistocene, by Mr. Frank C. Baker; The Life of Columcille,
edited and translated by A. O'Kelleher and Q. Schepperle;
The Power of a €k)d, by Thacher H. Guild; Semi-Centennial
History of the University of Illinois, volume 1, by Dr. B. E*
Powell.
•T^iiL, Bd. of Trnstees, Univ. of HI., 1916-18, p. 636
■•Min., Bd. of TrusteeB, 1916-18, p. 747
*7age 200 (this book)
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CHAPTER X
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
During the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920 the income of
the University of Illinois from the Federal (Jovemment rose
from $74,223.37 in 1903-4 to $218,154.44 in 1919-20. The ap-
propriations of the State of Illinois to the University advanced
from $1,152,400 to $5,348,000. The total available income of
the University increased from $956,472.80 to $3,723,746.18.
The University was the recipient of several important gifts
during this period, the two most notable of which were received
from Captain Thomas J. Smith and from Hon. William B.
McKinley, both of Champaign. The former donated to the Uni-
versity four farms in 1914, having a total area of about 770
acres and a value of approximately $215,000, to provide funds
for the erection of a building for the School of Music. Mr.
McKinley in 1917 presented to the University securities of a
par value of $120,000, from the sale of which funds should
be provided for the erection of an infirmary for students and
faculty.
The land holdings of the University increased during this
period from 633.69 acres in 1904 to 1,959.45^ acres in 1920. Of
the 1,328.26 acres added, 713.72 acres were included in thirty
experiment fields in various sections of the state which had been
acquired by gift or by purchase. The total value of the land
acquired during the period was $861,887.29.
Sixteen important buildings were erected between 1904
and 1920. The total number of buildings in use by the Uni-
versity increased from 23 to 71. One million, one hundred
fifty-three thousand, three hundred ninety dollars had been
expended up to 1904 on buildings in use at that time. From
1905 to 1920, $3,905,963.63 was spent for new buildings or for
additions to old ones.
The inventory of furniture and fixtures in 1904 amounted
to a total of $81,342.55. In 1919 the value of these items was
*See foot-note, Chapter II, p. 54
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$367,649.35. The value of departmental equipment rose like-
wise from $487,117.16 to $2,402,108.64.
The number of books in the Library increased from 66,239
in 1904 to approximately 420,000 in 1920. A considerable
number of departmental libraries were established. Two new
museums were established, and the other collections of the Uni-
versity received substantial additions.
The number of members in the faculty rose from 351 to
943. The quality of the staff showed an increase no less marked.
Salaries were so increased that in 1919-20 approximately 36
per cent of the faculty were receiving $2,500 or more, as against
10 per cent in 1903-04; while only .2 per cent were receiving
less than $1,000, as against 29.9 per cent in 1903-04. Four
hundred ninety books, 5,478 articles, 310 book reviews and 490
book notices were published by members of the faculty during
the sixteen years.
The enrolment of the University increased from 3,592 to
9,249, the number of degrees conferred, from 633 to 928
(1,223). 2 The requirements for admission were advanced for
all departments of the University.
Student activities of every nature showed a lively growth
during the period. Many organizations were formed to sup-
plement the work in the class room, in addition to the large
number devised chiefly for recreation. Illinois athletic teams
were notably successful in inter-coUegiate contests.
Of the various colleges and schools embraced in the organ-
ization of the University, nearly all showed a substantial
growth during the period. There was in nearly every instance
an increase in the number of students and faculty, in buildings
and equipment and in the number and variety of the courses
offered. In every case there was a distinct advance in the
quality of the work.
During the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920 the University
as a whole became recognized not only as an indispensable
part of the great public school system of the State of Illinois,
but as a most vital factor in the promotion of the agricultural,
the industrial and the commercial interests of the common-
"Figores in parenthesis are those for 1916-17
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wealth. It was repeatedly invited to assist in the solution of
the most difficult problems which confronted the legislators
of the State, and in every instance rendered ungrudging and
efficient service. It cheerfully accepted whatever new duties
were laid upon it. Its usefulness was limited only by its
means.
In spite of the impression that will be derived from the
study of the statistics presented in the foregoing pages —
namely that the University's growth for the sixteen years
was chiefly material and physical — it can be asserted with
confidence that the real growth of the University for this
period was intellectual and spiritual. It rose to a higher plane
of scholarship. It came to lay greater emphasis upon unsel-
fish service. There was a setting up of high ideals, and these
were kept consistently before both faculty and students.
During this period the University was not content to serve
only as a medium for handing down to its students the learn-
ing of the past. It strove with unflagging zeal to do its part
in pushing outward the bounds of the known world of science,
literature, art, philosophy and medicine. This policy, con-
sistently followed, resulted not only in the addition of some
small amount to the sum of human knowledge, but also in
greater inspiration in the teaching of the instructor, and a
keener interest in his work on the part of the student.
Difficult as the task is of securing the means for providing
adequate land, buildings, libraries and laboratories, it is still
more difficult to build up an able administrative and instruc-
tional staff — ^men with genuine teaching ability, with high
ideals of scholarship, capable of carrying on important investi-
gations themselves and of giving efficient direction to the re-
search of others. This task has been performed at the Uni-
versity of Illinois during the past sixteen years with notable
success. It is certain that no state university is ranked higher
by its sister institutions at the present time than the Univer-
sity of Illinois. If the present high ideals of scholarship and
of service are maintained, there is no reason to doubt that
the University of Illinois will establish clearly its right to be
counted one of the great seats of learning of the world.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
The principal sources from which the facts contained in this
Report were collected are the following:
Reports of the Illinois Industrial University and the Uni-
versity of Illinois, 1868-1916.
Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illi-
nois, 1904-1920.
University of Illinois Annual Registers, 1868-1920.
Laws of Illinois, 1863-1918.
Illinois School Reports, 1879-1906.
The Alumni Quarterly, 1907-18.
The Alumni Record, 1913-1918.
Registrar's Report, 1913.
Comptroller's Reports, 1913-19.
The Daily lUini, 1904-20.
The mio, 1904-19.
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Adams Act, 8, 11
Administration boilding, picture, 16
Agricultural CoUege and Experi-
ment Station, 211
Agricultural Experiment Fields,
1920, picture, 63
list, 70
Agronomy Bam and Implement
House, picture, 48
Agronomy Greenhouse, picture, 48
Animal Husbandry Feeding Barns,
picture, 64
Animal Husbandry Bilos, picture, 64
Appropriations
entomologist, state, 18
federal, 7
Miners' and Mechanics' Insti-
tutes. 18
Natural History Laboratory, 18
state, 16, 17, 20
Water Survey, 18
Archaeology, Classical, Museum, 121
Armory, picture, 224
Artillery Bams, picture, 144
Art Museum, 121
Athletic coaches, school for, 244
Athletic organizations, 182
Auditorium, picture, 224
Bibliography, 259
Books and articles published by
faculty, 152
table, 163
Botany Annex, picture, 96
Buildings
erected, 1867-1904, 78
erected, 1904-20, 79
description, 86
inventory, 80
under construction, 83
Buildings and equipment, chapter
on, 77
Burrill, Professor, retirement, 144
Cabinets and collections, appropria-
tions, 1869-1911, 118
Campus in 1870, picture, 44
Campus, 1920, picture, 194
Campus plans
chapter on, 193
chart, 196
Ceramics Building, picture, 112
Ceramics Kiln House, picture, 128
Chemistry building, picture, 80
Collections, 126
Collections and cabinets, appropria-
tions for, 1869-1911, 118
Colleges and schools, chapter on, 199
Commerce and Business Adnunis-
tration. College of, 214
Commerce building, picture, 16
Commerce museum, 126
Conclusion and summary, chapter
on, 266
Contents, table of, 3
Council of Administration, 1904-20,
130
Dairy bams, picture, 64
Debate and oratory, 190
Degrees
conferred, 1904 and 1918, table,
166
conferred, 1905-19, table, 163
geographical distribution, table,
170
Dentistry, College of. 236
building, picture, 208
faculty, 143
Departmental libraries, 107
Dramatic organizations, 181
Educational Besearch, Bureau of,
230
Education, College of, 226
building, picture, 160
1904-18, 226
Education, School of, registration,
229
Endowment fund, interest, 19
Engineering. College of
alumni, 209
changes, 210
faculty, 208
special activities, 206
student enrolment, 208
Engineering College and Experi-
ment Station, 206
Engineering Experiment Station,
207
Enrolment
colleges, etc., table, 160
student, 1868-1920, table, 154
student, 1904-20, table, 159
260
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Entomologist's Laboratory, picture,
96
Entomologist, State, appropriation,
18
Entrance requirements, 174
table, 175
Equipment and buildings, chapter
on, 77
Equipment, inventory, 97
Experiment fields, list and descrip-
tion, 70
Experiment Station, Agricultural,
211
Experiment Station, Engineering,
206,207
Faculty
additions, 1904-20, 130
chapter on, 128
salaries, 1903-04 and 1919-20, 148
table, 129, 130
Farm Mechanics Building, 40
Floriculture Greenhouse, picture, 96
Foreign students, table, 171
Fraternities and sororities, 184
Furniture and fixtures, inventory, 96
Gas Engine Annex, picture, 128
Genetics Laboratory, picture, 96
Gift of land, 76
Gifts to the University, 29
Graduate School, 199
Gymnasium for Men, picture, 224
Hatch Act, 7, 11
Havana, summer work, 244
Home-coming, 1916 program, 187
Honorary and professional socie-
ties, 185
Horse Bam, picture, 64
Horticulture Field Laboratory, pic-
ture, 64
Horticulture Greenhouse, picture, 96
Hospital Annex, picture, 144
Hospital, picture. 144
Illustrations, table, 4
Income
chapter on, 7
sources, 7
total, 29
total, table, 30
Income from Federal Government, 7
summary, 11
Income from State of Illinois, 15, 17
Interscholastic, 1916 program, 189
Introduction, 6
James, President J. E., portrait,
frontispiece
Land
chapter on, 41
gift, 76
table showing value, 46
1867, 41
Lands acquired, list and description
of
Chicago, 1868-190^ 64
Chicaf^, 1904-20, 69
experiment fields, 70
1868-1904, 46
1904-20, 48
outside Urbana-Ohampaign, 1904-
20, 64
summary, 57
table showing value, 48, 52, 55
Urbana<lhampaign, 1867, 59
Urbana-Champaign, 1904-20, 64
Law, College of, 212
building, picture, 224
recent developments, 218
Liberal Arts and Sciences, College
of, 200
1913-20, 202
Libraries
departmental, 107
size in various universities, 102
Libraries and museums, chapter on,
100
Library
addition, picture, 224
building, 115
expenditure for books, 1912-18,
106
Quine, 114
1904-18, 104
Library School, 219
Library training, summer courses,
243
Lincoln Hall, picture, 32
Literary and scientific organiia-
tions, 179
Locomotive Testing Laboratory, pic-
ture, 128
Mcintosh, Professor, retirement, 145
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory,
picture, 128
Medicine, College of, 230
building, picture, 208
faculty, 1904-20, 140
library, 114
Military department, 245
Military units and courses, 246
Miners' and Mechanics' ^stitutes,
appropriation for, 18
Mining Engineering Museum, 126
Mining Laboratory, picture, 112,
128
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MorrUl Land Grant, 7, 11
MuaeamSy 116
dassieal archaeology and art, 121
commerce, 126
mining engineering. 126
natural history, 119
Oriental, 124
railway engineering, 127
visitorg, 123
MoBeums and libraries, chapter on,
100
Music, School of, 216
building, picture, 160
1004-20, 222
1920, 223
Natural History Building, picture,
32
Natural History Museum, 119
Natural History, State Laboratory
of, 17
appropriations, 18
Nelson Act, 8, 11
Observatory, picture, 144
Oratory and debate, 190
Organizations
athletic, 182
classes, 178
dramatic, 181
honorary and professional, 185
miscellaneous, 186
national and state, 186
religious, 180
Organizations and activities of stu-
dents, table, 178
Oriental Museum, 124
Pharmacy, School of, 236
building, picture, 208
faculty, 144
Physics Laboratory, picture, 112
Power House, picture, 144
Preface, 6
President's house, picture, 224
Press, University, 255
Professional and honorary societies,
185
Professors, 1904-20
assistant, 136
assistant, College of Medicine, 142
associate, 135
associate, College of Medicine, 141
Dentistry, in College of, 143
Medicine, in College of, 140
Property
sales of, table, 58
summary, table, 58
Publications
faculty, 152
faculty, table, 149
studen^ 191
Quine library of College of Medi-
cine, 114
growth, 114
Bailway fenginesring Museum, 127
Beligious organisations, 180
Retirement of professors, 140, 145
Bicker, Professor, retirement, 145
Bolf e. Professor, retirement, 145
Salaries
average, of full-time member of
fiusulty, 149
faeulty, 1903-04, 1919-20, 148
sunmiary, 149
Schools and colleges, chapter on, 199
Scientific and literary organizations,
179
Senate, 1904-20, 131
Shattnck, Professor, retirement, 144
Smith-Hughes Act, 9, 11
Smith-Lever Act, 8, 11
Smith Music Building, picture, 160
Societies, see organizations
Sororities and fraternities, 184
State appropriations to University,
15, 17. 20
Stock Pavilion, picture, 48
Store House, picture, 144
Student body, chapter on, 154
Students
activities, 187
enrolment of, 1868-1920, table,
154
enrolment of, 1904-20, table, 159
foreign, table, 171
geographical distribution, 170
graduated, percentage, 172
insular possessions of tJ. S., from,
172
organizations and activities, chap-
ter on, 178
parents of, occupations, 178
publications, 191
Students' Army Training Corps,
248
Summary and conclusion, chapter
on, 256
Summer courses in library training,
243
Summer Session, 238
athletic coaches school, 244
faculty, 241
graduate work, 242
Summer work at Havana, 244
Table of contents, 3
Tax for support of University, Act
relative to, 27
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TTmiin>ortation building, pieture, War service records, 250
112 Water Survey, State, appropriation.
Vivarium, picture, 96 18
War activities, miscellaneous, 252 Woman's Building, picture, 176
War relief campaigns, subscriptions, Women's Besidence Hall, picture,
251 176
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