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

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COLLEGE OF F I 1 A Dean Allen S. Weller E A D PPLIED RT The College of Fine and Applied Arts offers a wide variety of opportunities by teaching aesthetic knowledge and appreciation as well as preparing students for professional careers. There are more architecture students at Illinois than in any other school in the United States. The other teaching departments in the College are Art, City Planning and Landscape Architecture, and Music. In addition, the Small Homes Council and the Bureau of Com- munity Planning carry on research and exten- sion work. The University Bands are a sepa- rate division of the College. To promote interest in music, the College presents concerts by the various orchestras, choral and chamber music groups, recitals, public lectures, performances by the Opera Workshop, and a year-round exhibition pro- gram which maintains exhibitions in several campus buildings. The School of Music spon- sors radio broadcasts over Station WILL. Dis- tinguished visitors in the various teaching fields are frequently brought here. The Col- lege is also instrumental in the planning of the biennial Festival of Contemporary Arts. Te

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COLLEGE OF E CI EERI C The College of Engineering, through its eleven departments, offers its students a thor- ough professional education for service to the state and nation. Classroom and labora- tory instruction is supplemented by a large and active research program through which staff members can fulfill balanced roles. For students, the College emphasizes per- sonal contact with instructors and a wide range of student activities. These include eleven honor societies, fourteen student pro- fessional groups, and the Engineering Council to co-ordinate and represent the student-body opinion. These are supplemented by The I llinois Technograph student magazine, Engi- neering Open House which each year in mid- March draws some 15,000 visitors from the twin cities and the state at large, and, in the social realm, St. Patis Ball, an engineering- sponsored all-University dance on Open House week-end. This combination of sound teaching in a research-balanced atmosphere and contact with one,s fellows amid the diverse resources of a full university presents an unusual oppor- tunity for those who seek both breadth and depth in their education.

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GRAD TE COLLEGE The Graduate College began in 1892 when the Board of Trustees authorized four fellow- ships for post-graduate work to . . stimulate in all departments the idea and habit of re- search .... U From this small beginning, the graduate student body has a present enroll- ment of 3,000, the third largest college on the campus. Graduate programs stressing independent work and individual research have been established in over sixty-five departments and divisions of the University. The four original fellowships authorized by the Board of Trus- tees have been increased to provide a sub- stantial number of awards for students of unusual promise. Other students of excep- tional ability gain valuable teaching and re- search experience through the many part time assistantships which are available. The Grad- uate College conferred about 750 masters, degrees in recent years and over 300 doctor- ates during the last calendar year. Dean Frederick T. Wall