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

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i. . I.I.11V! '- i M I ! ! 1 1 IBIIII1 COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION Edmund Janes James, Ph.D., LL.D. President of the University David Kinley, Ph.D., LL.D. Vice President of the University Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Economics Eugene Davenport, M.Agr., LL.D. Dean of the College of Agriculture Director of Agricultural Extension Service and Professor of Thremmatology Thomas Arkle Clark Dean of Men and Professor of Rhetoric William Freeman Myrick Goss, M.S., D.Eng. Dean of the College of Engineering Director of the School of Railway Engineering and Administration and Professor of Railway Engineering Kendric Charles Babcock, B.Lit., Ph.D. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts arid Sciences Frederick Brown Moorehead, A.B., D.D.S., M.D. Dean of the College of Dentistry and Professor of Oral Surgery and Pathology Daniel Atkinson King Steele, M.D. LL.D. Senior Dean of the College of Medicine Professor of Clinical Surgery and Head of the Department of Surgery Albert Chauncy Eycleshymer, Ph.D., M.D. Junior Dean of the College of Medicine Professor of Anatomy and Head of the Department of Anatomy Nathan Austin Weston, Ph.D. Acting Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration and Assistant Professor of Economics Fanny Cook Gates, Ph.D. Dean of Women Henry Winthrop Ballantine, LL.D. Dean of the College of Law and Professor of Law Nineteen University

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iittiiititiiiiiiiHimiitti 11(14 K.UI..HIII, I UllfJil THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO Hon. Frank 0. Lowden Governor of Illinois Hon. J. E. Taggert President of the State Board of Agriculture Hon. Francis G. Blair Superintendent of Public. Instruction ELECTED MEMBERS TERM 1913-1919 Ellen M. Henrotin, Chicago John R. Trevett, Champaign Florence E. Watson, Tuscola TERM 1915-1921 Robert F. Carr, Chicago Laura B. Evans, Taylorville Robert R. Ward, Benton TERM 1917-1923 William L. Abbott, Chicago Mary E. Busey, Urbana Otis W. Hoit, Geneseo OFFICERS OF THE BOARD President William L. Abbot Secret :ary Harrison E. Cunningham Treasurer Hazen S. Capron Coill ltl-ilHcr Lloyd Morey University Eighteen

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THE COLLEGES THE GRADUATE SCHOOL In education, private industry and public service, the present ten- dancy is towards the increasing employment of people of specialized efficiency. An expert is a man who brings to the solution of any given problem the best information anywhere obtainable. The Graduate School is that division of the University which in- cludes the work of all the departments beyond that required for a bachelor's degree. The function of the Graduate School is to train people to meet the demands described above. Its service, therefore, is three-fold; to train teachers for positions beyond the grades ; to train research experts ; and to conduct research through its own members. From 1892 to 1906 the total number of graduate students in the university was 169 ; from 1906 to June, 1917, the number will be 1081. DEAN KINLEY COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE While the University of Illinois was organized under the Land Grant Act in 1868 and while agriculture was always taught, the first real steps toward a modern agricultural college were not taken until thirty years later, in 1898, when the legislature appropriated $150,000 for a building and determined to devote half the income from the federal endowment to a faculty and equipment for teaching even though the registration at that time was fewer than a dozen. This first step was followed by a campaign for students by the Illinois Farmers' Institute. Subsequent appropriations caused an increase in attendance until the 1250 mark was passed last year, making the col- lege one of the largest in America. These figures, in themselves, speak for the standing and progress of the Agricultural School. No more can be said. DEAN DAVENPORT DEAN OF MEN It is the aim of the office of the Dean of Men to build character and to turn out good citizens. Discipline is not its only function. Of course, discipline is necessary to better carry out its purpose. The Student Hospital Association found its origin in, and still is managed by, the office of the Dean of Men. Supervision of rooming houses: aid in finding employment for the students who are working their way thru the University; information and advice on every conceivable subject; all these come within the scope of this office. Perhaps a better title to adorn the door would be Student Welfare Bureau. Not more than ten per cent of the students who visit the Dean's office are summoned, and of these by no means the majority are called for discipline. DEAN CLAItK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING The activities of the College of Engineering and of the Engineer- ing Experiment Station of the University of Illinois are designed pri- marily to be responsive to the needs of a state which in itself nearly equals in population and area the whole of New England. The College of Engineering has thus far graduated over three thousand men and double that number have profited by its instruction. As organizations maintaining cooperative relations with the engi- neering industries of the state, the College and Station promote the welfare of a large number of people. One-half of all the people of the state are associated with manufacturing, mining and transportation in- dustries. The College trains men for these industries ; the Engineering Experiment Station conducts researches, the published results of which supply facts of immediate value to a large part of the population of the state ; and together the College and Station have an important part in advancing the standards of engineering practice. DEAN GOSS University Twenty