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 - Class of 1915

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®0 JJresrtbent €bmunb 3ant Jame£ a man tofjo compels! our respect, abmtratton anb fjonor, toe bebtcate tfttsi book

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THE PRESIDENT $re£tbent Cbmunb 3 arte James, Wfyt Jtlan HERE is no spirit of independence like that of a boy sure of his dinner, as was remarked by the Sage of Concord. It is the spirit that investigates traditional holies and finds the shams they have accumulated. When this spirit can be carried on and united with the experience and judgment of maturity, men of notable and individual action must result. Until recently the University world has not developed many men of this type; trimming the wick of the Lamp of Learning being a particularly sure way to bring on an explosion. However, there are those who must act, explosion or no explosion. And President Edmund J. James of the University of Illinois is among those who have ventured. He has compelled knowledge to meet the needs of daily living in ways that often seemed foreign to it. He is an Illinois product — the feeling of its prairies is his own life-feeling. With an un- usual perception of truth, he realized this early and followed the prompting of his spirit rather than the advice of his friends in making Illi- nois the scene of his best work, refusing flatter- ing offers from such institutions as Halle and Harvard to do it. He was educated in Illinois except for a year at Harvard and two years of study in prepa- ration for his doctor's degree in the German University of Halle. He took his doctor's degree in 1877 at the age of twenty-two years thereby throwing the German Government into confusion, as he was ready for the examination a full year before schedule time and a special dispensation was necessary before it could be given. The University of Halle did what proved to be the ordinary thing in his career — offered him a position within its halls — but he declined in order to return to his native state. His first position was as principal of the high school in Evanston. From there he went to Normal as prin- cipal of the High School Department of the Illinois Normal University. In 1883 he took his only excur- sion as a teacher out of the state when he went to the University of Pennsylvania to accept the directorship of the Wharton School of Finance, a position that gave his peculiar talents wide scope. He returned to Illinois in 1896 as professor of public administration and direc- tor of University Extension work of the University of Chicago. He was there until 1902 when he left to become the president of Northwestern University which position, after holding two and one-half years, he re- linquished to become the president of the University At the Age of i8 of Illinois. It is an unique record for a native ol the Birth Place at Jacksonville, III.

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