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

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. 53 YXVEEE 1 I 1 Q'f,ixNG6.l Q 51 -31 4 Yo Q s .S'5flTfLi 19 1. Z Y, 55 O 3 1 fly G X f ' W x QS' 11.iff3,Rgf 74 'f 5 X-sgqjii Q AIRTERED I 0 1111, l'llE 0 ll.EGE E ENGINEERING Established in lvlay 1867, when the Board of Trustees adopted the report of its committee on Courses of Study and Faculty, the College of Engineering is one of the oldest on the campus. The report of the committee recommended that the University provide courses in Mechanical Science and Art, Civil Engineering, lVlining Engineering and lVletallurgy, and Architecture and Fine Artsf' instruction in the College of Engineering began on -izuinary 1, 18711. Since 1871-72, when the four curricula of lViechani- cal Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mining Engineer- ing, and Architecture were first announced, the College has grown steadily and rapidly. At present, the College of Engineering offers thirteen curricula administered di- rectly hy the College, and in addition the curriculum of Chemical Engineering, administered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 'llhe Dean of the College of Engineering is also the Ili 1917, the sirious congestion in all ol' the lahoiatories of the Engineering College led to the appropriation of S5llll,Ullll by the General Assemhlv for the erection ol a Materials Testing Laboratory. The Materials Testing Laboratory, completed in 1919, is of Georgian archi- ttcturc and the chiel feature of the huilding is the large crane hav which contains the testing machines. The bay is 147 feet in length, -ll feet in xxidth and the crane has a lilt of ill feet. The pit for the i,lIlIll,1HIO pound testing machine extends fifteen feet he-low the crane bar, or basement floor, The weight of this machine and inundation, not including the specimen in the machine is l8ll,ollll pounds. In addition to housing the testing machine, the building contains the offices, classrooms, and lahoratoiies of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, as uell as spate for some of the uoik in Civil llllrl Highnai Fngineering. l i l i DEAN MELUN L. ENGER Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, the purpose of which is Hto conduct investigations and make studies of importance to the engineering, manufacturing, railway, mining, and other industrial interests of the statef' The work of the Station includes research by all departments of the College of Engineering and also the Department of Industrial Chemistry. While a num- ber of the investigations are made in cooperation with industries or engineering societies, a large portion of the research carried on consists of independent study. The results of the numerous researches completed by the Experiment Station from December 8, 19113, the date of its founding, to the present have been published in two hundred eighty bulletins. Occasionally the Sta- tion has published circulars, totaling twenty-five in all, containing articles of timely interest, information of importance, and material not readily accessible in other sources. 1 - ' lNlr.t.v1N L. ktstrhk, Dean of the College of Engineering, will complete his thiitieth year on the University faculty this spring. He was born in Decorah, Iowa, in 1884. He began his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota and later transferred to the University of Illinois, receiving three degrees from the University, the Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1906, the professional degree of Civil Engineering in 1911, and the Master of Science degree in 1919. XYhen Professor A. N. Talbot retired as the head of the Department of 'Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1929, Professor Enger succeeded him in this position. Later when Acting Dean VVillard was appointed President of the University in 1914, Professor linger was nominated to head the College nf Engineer- ing. Many engineering honorary societies and fraternities are among his activities, including the American Societv of Civil 1-Ingieers, Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, Sigma Xi, Sigma Tau, and Mu-San. In many of these he has held prominent positions.

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Q .Q Dv.-xx IMI,-Yl IAlll-XX' 'I'. hdcfi tfirr The largest college in the University attained its present status in 1913, when the College of Literature and Arts and the College of Sciences were combined to form the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with the late Kendric C. Babcock as Dean. Since then the Col- lege has endeavored to integrate instruction in both the humanities and the sciences. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has two particular functions. First, it enrolls students in special- ized and pre-professional curricula, for instance, pre- medical, pre-law, pre-journalism, chemistry, and chemi- cal engineering. Second, it provides the resources for a liberal education. 'lI,iberal, means a program lead- ing to a vvell-rounded personal development, that is, a program in which the studies emphasize factors that contribute to a general knowledge and interpretation of the forces, tendencies, conflicts, and problems of life, M.-K'I l'IlI-.XX 'I'HtrNII'M1N INIL'CIl'Rl-., Ilean of the Coll-gr ol' Iiibeial ,Xits ani' Sciences, uas horn at Spottsforrl, Virginia, April IT, llitli. A bathelor's rlegret was awarded hinr at Uashinigton and Lee University in l'llH, xthrre he did his under- graduate uork, fl niaster's degree .lt the Universitt of Virginia in IVUT, and a cloctnr's degree at Columbia in l'!l2. Before coming lo Illinois, Mr. McClure was .rn instructor in Pllllosophi at Columbia and from lllli to 1921 :r Professor of Philosophy' at 'I'ul:rne. ll: began hiS Career Ill Illinois in Ivll as Associate Ptufesslli in Philosophv. In IUII he became Professor ot Philosophy and ni lvjo he was appointed head of that depart- ment. The deanship nas :rwarwletl hlni in IVE-I after seriing a rear as Acting Dean of the College nf Liberal Arts and Scnners. Dean McClure ls rr menrber of Phi Beta Kappa, the .-'xrrreritarr Philosophical Assoclalloli, and other honor ox organizations. I flllo II , rwa. Qs st, ef? sf-'bn -. gyffxgtl ilif -I viz i f 2 R - . X VJ N ' 5' fi Q Rx Ofgf gg -- or Q ARTERED I 41111, Tlllf lllllffilf lllllf AI. TS AIU SCIENCES rather than lead to a specific individual career. Because of the wide range of interests thus encountered in so large a student body, the College necessarily offers many fundamental courses of other colleges as electives. In- struction in rhetoric, romance languages, social sciences, and mathematics for students in other colleges in the University is also provided. So great has this burden become that now slightly more than half of the total energy of the teaching staff has been devoted to the in- struction of students enrolled in other colleges. 'Iihe College is at present considering means of offer- ing greater opportunities and fewer obstacles to the bet- ter student, and more help and guidance to the student who has not yet found himself. 'Ilo allow the better students to advance as rapidly as they wish, the tutorial system has been put into use. Under this system the student studies alone with the help of an adviser, and takes an examination when he has covered the material. Ihe orrgnral purpose in builrlrrv' Lintoln llall urns to eonsrrrrtr ,I I-uihlrn of B I- the same tipc as L'nivt'rs1tr Hall. 'Iibls building urs to lraxt bein .rn addition to lllrlversity Hall, but it uas soon setn that it u.ls inipiaeticablt to nrrkr sutli an addition to the forty-Year-old stiutture. 'Ihe new plans called for a building just south of tht lXonran's llurldrng ulritlr uas to be nained New Unirtrsitx llall, but during tht tonstrnction, tht nanrr uas changed to Abrzihain Lllltlilll Hall. 'lille cornrr stone uas laid Setrtlirrbrr Ill, IVIU and in it ueit placed nrani dotunients llltllltllllll 'l'li. lllmi' of that datt, illli .ilnum.1.- Qnartfrly, and details nl Ihr future plans or the University. l'hr struttin- built at that tirne nas only hall ol the present Iantoln llallg tht uthtr halt not bring built until IVJN. The later .olrlitron intln-led the Iattlf lhertfr .rnd tht west section. The Little Theater, hornr of the Illini 'l'lreatre Guild, Prtriots, and Arepo, is uell equipped for the IYIUNIIIILIIIIPII ol plais and nrusical productions, har- ing ll large stage uell supplird urth sctntri .ind lighting tatrlltirs. A l'. Tzu' i I