University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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I L L I O On June 7, 1912, Thomas Jonathan Burrill, Ph.D., L.L. D., tendered his resignation as Vice-President of the Univer- sity of Illinois. For more than forty-six years he has served this great institution in the double capacity of educator and administrator. As a botanist and a teacher of that science he has been ranked with the foremost men of the country. As an execu- tive, his courageous general- ship, his conscientious care, his wise, almost unerring judgment has made his services invalua- ble. An honorable retirement is, in a way, a fitting climax to his long and eventful career. It was not until July 2, 1913, that it was made known that David Kinley, Ph.D., L.L.D., had been appointed to the chair recently vacated by Dr. Burrill. The pe- culiar talents of this man were particularly adapted to the position offered him. He- possesses that combination of the theoretical and the practical, together with a tenacious progressiveness, which marks the successful man of today. The remarkable progress and efficient organization of the Graduate School but hints at this latent ability. It would be difficult, indeed, to find a man whose accomplishments better fitted the re- quirements of the position, than do those of Dean David Kinley. 27

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