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

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t mm i J Bffi THE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE The College of Commerce and Business Administration reaches back educationally to 1902, when the work was estab- lished in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences under the guidance of Dr. David Kinley, who was then Dean of the Col- lege. The educational ideals set up at that time have since been studiously followed, with the result that today the College of Commerce and Business Administration is regarded as a leader among the business schools and colleges of the country that give major attention to fundamentals rather than to tech- nique and routine. The college as it is now constituted was organized in 1915 with three de- partments— Econom- ics, Business Organi- zation and Operation, and Transportation. In the meantime, the student body has grown from a few hundred to more than two thousand, and the faculty from less than a dozen to more than seventy. Charles Manfred Thomp- son, '09, Dean of the College of Commerce and Director of the Bureau of Business Research, was born in Fairfield. Illinois, on November 10. 1877. On completing his under- graduate work here he went to Harvard Univer- sity, where he studied in 1910-11, returning to the University of Illinois in 1912 as an instructor in economics. He continued his graduate work here, receiving his Ph.D. the next year. Since that time he has been serving con- tinuously on the faculty. accepting his present posi- tion in 1919.

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Kendrick Charles Babcock. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was born in South Brookfield, New York, on Septem- ber 8, 1864. He studied at the University of Minnesota and at Harvard, completing his work there in 1896. On leaving Harvard, he became an assistant pro- fessor at the University of Colorado, which position he left to accept the presi- dency of the University of Ariona in 1903. From 1910 to 1913 he served as a specialist in higher education on the United States Bureau of Educa- tion, accepting his present position at the end of that time. THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is, and has been for many years, the largest college in the University, both in the number of students enrolled and in the size of the faculty. It consists of nineteen separate departments, and not only offers the student a good general education, but also presents the opportunity of preparing for the advanced study of law, medi- cine, dentistry, pharmacy, theology, or social service. Besides this very definite work of its own, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences provides instruction in rhetoric, romance lan- guages, mathematics, and the social sciences for students registered in all the other col- leges at Urbana. In fact, this phase of the work has grown to such an extent that for the past few years over one-half of the total energy of the teaching staff has been devoted to the instruc- tion of students en- rolled in other colleges. Chemistry Building

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if SSI Albert James Harno, Dean of the College of Law. was born in Holabird, South Dakota, on Jan- uary 30, 1889. He graduated from Dakota Wesleyan University in 1911, and three years later received his LL.B., magna cum laude, at Yale University. He practiced in Los Angeles until 1917, when he became Dean and Professor at Washburn College of Law inTopeka, Kansas. In 1919 he went to the University of Kansas as Professor of Law, transferring to the University of Illinois in 1921. He has served here as Professor of Law since 1921. and as Dean since 1922. THE COLLEGE OF LAW The policy in the College of Law is to develop and main- tain a school of the highest rating. All those connected with the staff of this college are fully cognizant that they are assist- ing in the education of persons who will later go out to places of public trust and confidence. Great effort is therefore exerted to make the student's training well rounded and complete. The law curriculum is designed to give legal training to those whose preliminary education and maturity have fitted them for serious professional study. It aims to provide a thorough knowledge of fundamental legal principles and to develop the power of legal reasoning. The g|§§ student is taught the use of legal machin- ery. He is also edu- cated in the object and purpose of this machinery, and the relation it bears to the social welfare. The faculty has recently been increased and strengthened. The college is given an A rating by the Ameri- can Bar Association. Law Library