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

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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,

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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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'X S 23°h2 Thomas Arkle Clark. '90. Dean of Men, was born in Minonk, Illinois, on May 11. 1862, and studied at the Universities of Ill- inois, Chicago, and Harvard. He has been Dean of Men here since 1909, and his work has gained him national recognition as an authority on all phases of a univer- sity man's life. During the sixteen years of his service he has probably been guide, councilor, and friend to more young men than any other man in the country. THE DEAN OF MEN The office of the Dean of Men was organized primarily to aid the University men in securing an environment which would encourage good citizenship as well as high scholarship. New functions have been given to the office and the scope of its work has been widened. Dean Thomas Arkle Clark has added Mr. Fred H. Turner, Assistant Dean of Men, Mr. J. Gladwyn Thomas, Assistant Dean for Freshmen and Foreign Students, and Mr. Roger Hopkins, in charge of student organi- zations and activities, in order that he may devote more time to the individual stu- dent. The purpose of the office has not changed, but the work of assisting men to be better students, and providing better living conditions for them is being con- stantly extended. Dean of Men's Office