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

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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.

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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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Milo Smith Ketchum. '95, Dean of the College of Engineering. was born in Burns, Illinois, on January 26, 1872. Since finishing his undergraduate work, he has been constantly connected with uni- versities, except for two brief periods. In 1897-9 he served as bridge and structural engineer for the Gillett-Herzog Manu- facturing Company, and in 1903-4 was with the American Bridge Company in Kansas City. Before assuming his present posi- tion in 1 922. he served in similar capacities at the University of Colorado from 1905 to 1919, and at the University of Penn- sylvania in 1919-20. THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING The College of Engineering has ten departments of instruc- tion and offers fifteen specialized curricula. The physical plant of the college is extensive and its equipment for instruction and research is in a number of instances unexcelled. Its faculty includes a number of men who are everywhere recognized as authorities in their subjects. No institution in America has done more to promote re- search in engineering science than the University of Illinois. Wherever engineering is practiced, the Engineering Experiment Station is known for its valuable contributions to knowledge. The station has already published 145 bulletins and 12 circu- lars, and numerous manuscripts presenting the results of inves- tigations recently completed have already been accepted for publication. Over fifty investigations are in progress at the present time. The completion of some of these will be of tre- mendous importance to members of the engineering industries. During the past year the Station has conducted several investigations of par- ticular interest, several of which are of im- portance not only to engineers, but to the general public as well. The work of the En- gineering Experiment Station is a fine ex- ample of the service which the University is rendering to the people of the state and country. Transportation Building