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

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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

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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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:g QBl THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE The College of Agriculture gives instruction in the various lines of agricultural work. The needs of the student who expects to return to the farm are kept prominently in mind, and the record of the Alumni shows that 80 per cent are en- gaged in agricultural work of some kind. A conscious effort has been made in formulating the curricula in agriculture, how- ever, to make the course a broadly cultural rather than a narrow technical one. The object is to make good citizens as well as good farmers and agricultural leaders. The Agricultural Experiment Station is rendering a valu- able service in investi- gating the many questions involved in agricultural produc- tion and marketing. The Agricultural Ex- tension Service adapts and disseminates the facts determines by the Experiment Sta- tion to the people of the state. Agriculture Building Herbert Windsor Mumford, Dean of the College of Agriculture, was born in Moscow. Michigan, on February 26. 1871. He received his education at the Michigan Agri- cultural College, from which he was graduated in 1891. Returning to his alma mater in 1895, he served as an instructor and assistant in the Agricultural Experiment Station, attaining his full professorship in 1899. In 1901 he became professor of animal husbandry at the University of Illinois, and since that time has been here continuously, serving in his present ca- pacity since 192 2.