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

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E Director Stiven Director Windsor The School of Music is one of the smaller colleges on the campus, but it exerts a large influence on the cultural side of University life. About one hundred students are working for their degrees in Music, while nearly three hundred of the students from the other colleges are availing themselves of the opportunity offered them to continue their work in some particular branch of music. Many concerts and recitals are given throughout the year. These are open to the general public and are largely attended. The School occupies one of the finest buildings on the campus, a memorial building given by Captain Thomas J. Smith in memorv of his wife. The Library School trains college graduates to administer libraries of all types, and to give worth while direction to much of the voluntary reading and study in a community. Its grad- uates are found in libraries in nearly every state in the Union. The University Library serves all depart- ments by procuring the technical or rarely used books for the use of the faculty or graduate students; by carrying a stock of reserved books in sufficiently large numbers for daily class room needs; by selecting and displaying books for the general cultural and recreational read- ing of the students and faculty; and finally, it serves as a storehouse for the preservation of books, pamphlets, manuscripts and papers so that the copies will be available to future students. To give the service contemplated by these resources requires a staff of fifty-five people, many of them highly trained for this special task.

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Dean Ketchu.m The College of Engineering is the organiza- tion through which the University administers its work in the fields of engineering education and engineering research. The College of Engineering has ten departments of instruction and it offers fifteen specialized curricula, in- cluding architecture, architectural engineer- ing, ceramic chemistry, ceramic engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, gas engineering, general engineering, mechanical engineering, mining engineering, municipal and sanitary engineering, general engineering phys- ics, railway civil engineering, railway electrical engineering, and railway mechanical engineer- ing. The Engineering Experiment Station is well organized, and its work is known wherever engineering is practiced. The Station has al- ready published 135 bulletins and 10 circulars, and in addition, numerous manuscripts have been accepted for publication. The instructional staff and the equipment of the College of Engineering offer opportuni- ties for instruction and research that are un- excelled. The combination of the instructional and research staffs offers unusual opportuni- ties for graduate study in engineering. Dean Chadsey The skillful, successful teacher must be one who not only has secured an excellent general education with special training in a given field of knowledge, but who also has given careful attention to the technic of teaching. The College of Education attempts to add to the academic and cultural preparation of the stu- dents of the University who are planning to become teachers, a specific professional equip- ment to prevent the waste of time and energy which so often characterizes the teaching of university graduates who have not had courses in Education. In addition to the technical training of high school teachers, the college is offering many courses designed for those plan- ning to become elementary or high school principals, supervisors or school superintend- ents. Education claims recognition as a real profession and the College of Education, or- ganized as one of the professional schools along lines comparable to those followed in Law and Medicine, is attempting to do its share in improving educational conditions. Pagf 24

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Dean Daniels The Graduate School represents the or- ganized efforts and resources of the Liniversity for the purpose of giving opportunities for the most advanced study and for the promotion of research. These two functions, however, are by no means separate, for the spirit of research is the life of graduate study. The ideal of graduate work is one and the same for all graduate students. Some are fitting them- selves for higher teaching and administrative positions. Others are looking forward to careers in the fields of business, industry, engineering and the several professions. But it is the pur- pose of the Graduate School to train all in the methods and the use of the materials of their subjects so that they may become not only experts and authorities but also independent workers in their chosen fields. The outstanding feature in the College of Dentistry this year is the establishment of a children ' s clinic which has a twofold function. In the first instance, routine dentistry for chil- dren up to twelve years of age will be related entirely to the Children ' s Clinic. This is in keeping with the newer methods of medical education in which the child and his diseases is not confused with the adult and his diseases. The deciduous tooth in the child calls for a different kind of treatment than the permanent tooth in the adult. All of the work in the orthodontia will also be conducted as a part of the Children ' s Clinic including both undergraduate and graduate instruction. In connection with the work in orthodontia and the routine dentistry of child- hood, investigation has been inaugurated in the study of the causes of tooth decay. This problem is undoubtedly metabolic in character and is being studied both in its relation to the problem of diet on tin- oiic hand and infection on the other.