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

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES William L. Noble President of the Board FRED I WHAM MRS. ANNA W. ICKES Hubbard Woods FRANCIS G. BLAIR Springfield MRS. LAURA B. EVANS Taylorville MERLE J. TREES Chicago ARTHUR M. BURKE Len Small Governor of Illinois GEORGE A. BARR MRS. MARY BUSEY Joliet Urbana MRS. HELEN M. GRIGSBY J. W. ARMSTRONG Pittsfield Rock Island HARRISON E. CUNNINGHAM LLOYD MOREY Urbana Urbana

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Interest in the accompanying airplane view is naturally centered in the Stadium, but many of our readers will look with concern to see if Uni Hall still stands, and then will wonder what is happening south of the Auditorium. The campus of a great university today, instead of being composed of quadrangles, consists of a group of campuses — each one representing an era in the institution's development. With the old South Campus completed except for additions to Lincoln Hall and the Commerce Building, a new South Campus has been begun on the 160 acres between the Auditorium and the Stock Pavilion, and extending from the Forestry on the east to Fourth Street on the west. The first of the new buildings, which is readily distinguished by its many chimneys, is now occupied by Agriculture. Directly west of it and on the opposite side of a mall 600 feet wide the Commerce Building is under way, and the new Libr ary is just north of it. The steel frame- work of the new Men's Gymnasium may be discerned just south of the Armory. Another Woman's Residence Hall is under way just west of the present one. The McKinley Hospital, which will replace the one-story University Hospital southeast of the Armory, is rapidly nearing completion in the east edge of the Forestry on Lincoln Avenue, and the construc- tion tower on the Dairy Manufactures Building is visible just east of the Stock Pavilion. All these buildings will be completed this year. The next two years will see other structures in this area, all in the Georgian style. These will probably include a building for architecture and allied subjects, and the completion of the Armory.

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Progress is more than change. It is movement forward. It implies motion from one point to another. It is movement from present or realized conditions to projected or ideal conditions. Hence it implies an objective standard to be attained. Some people insist that moral and intellectual progress is internal in the sense that the impulse to it is entirely within us. To them progress is but self-expression. I do not believe this. Unless an individual has an ideal, a standard, outside of himself, he cannot move forward. The other theory is an attempt to pull oneself up with his bootstraps. In the study of mankind the important thing is the individual. His welfare is the ultimate aim. Progress is never made by a group as such. Movement originates with some individual and in time the group follows; hence the need of the cultivation of individuality, individual initiative, individual sense of responsibility. To my mind one of the greatest, I would say the greatest, need of the modern world is a deeper sense of individual moral responsibility for the establishment of new standards of life and conduct and the initiation of progress to achievement. The senti- mental talk about collective responsibility, collective justice, and so forth, to my mind is an evasion of responsibility by the individual. David Kinley,