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

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. ' , .y ,rn wi 'hz . A1',.A .. l 3 A ' HON. LICN SMALL WILLIAM L, NOBLE Governor of Illinois President of the Board he foam! of Tmfteef MEMBERS EX OFFICIO The GIIIJCIHIII of Illinois HON. LEN SMALL ...... ........ S pringhcld Tllr Supr'rinh'nrlcnl oj Public Instruction HON. FRANCIS G. BLAIR ........... Springfield ELECTED MEMBERS fTvrm 1921-19272 LAURA B. EVANS .............. Taylorville HELEN M. GRIGSBY .............. Pittsfield WILLIAM L. NOBLE ........ 31 N. State Street, Chicago fT1rrm 1923-19291 J. W. ARMSTRONG . ...... 1822 30th Street, Rock Island MARY E. BUSEY .............. Urbana MERLE ,LTREES . ..... 37 W. Van Buren Street, Chicago fTl'll!l 1925-19311 GEORGE A. BARR . ........ .... J oliet ANNA W. ICKIES . ....... Hubbard Woods FRED L. WHAM . . I. . . . . Ccntralia sf nb 'IX n , I . - 3 'Q. . 3 . .. I .1 W s Wham Armstrong Cunningham Morey Evans Burke BBN Grissby Buscy Trees B lair Ickes tm

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DAVID KINLICY, l'h.D., Ll.. IJ. OR more than thirty years President Kinley has been an outstanding figure in the development and progress of the University. In 1894 he was made Professor of Economics and Head of that Departmentg he was for many years Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciencesg he was the iirst Director of the School of Commerce, and for a dozen years or more Dean of the Graduate School. From 1914 until he was elected President of the University he held the office of Vice President. He has had a wide visiong he has dreamed many dreams with regard to the University and its development and has had the influence and force of character to make many of these dreams come true. I 25 J

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ZiS'f07fyf of 2726 Unzberszkyf HE University was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly, February 28, 1867, as the Illinois Industrial University. This action was taken following the act of Congress known as the Morrill Land Grant, whereby the national government gave each state in the Union public land scrip equal to 30,000 acres for each senator and representative in Con- gress, fffor the endowment, support, and main- tenance of at least one college whose leading object shall be, without excluding other sci- entific and classical studies, and including mili- tary tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts. 'l' if ' in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life. The institution was placed under the control of a Board of Trustees, consisting of the Gov- ernor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the President of the State Board of Agri- culture, members ex ojicio, and twenty-eight citizens appointed by the Governor. The chief executive officer was called the Regent, and was made ex ojicio a member of the Board and pre- siding officer of both the Board of Trustees and the faculty. In 1873 the number of members was reduced to eleven-the Governor and the President of the State Board of Agriculture, ex officio, and nine others, who were still ap- pointed by the Governor. Since this time also, the President of the Board has been chosen by the members from among their own number for a term of one year. In 1887, a law was passed making membership in the Board elec- tive at a general State election and restoring the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a member ex ojicio. There were then, therefore, three ex ojjicio and nine elective members. In 1917, the General Assembly passed a law reor- ganizing the administration of the State. By virtue of this law, on January 1, 1919, the office of the President of the State Board of Agriculture was abolished. There are now, therefore, eleven members, two ex ojicio and nine elective. In 188 5, the General Assembly changed the name of the institution from the Illinois Indus- trial University to the University of Illinois. The office of executive head of the institution has been held by six persons: Dr. John Milton Gregory, Regent from 1867 to 1880, Dr. Selim --,.------wg .ff --,,.,....--1 ru--.. .,- ,,--,-.,--..--V ---.- Hobart Peabody, Regent pro tempore from 1880 to 1881 and Regent from 1881 to I8QIQ Dr. Thomas Jonathan Burrill, Acting Regent from 1891 to I8Q4, Dr. Andrew Sloan Draper, President from 1894 to 1904, Dr. Edmund Janes James, President from 1904 to 1920, and Dr. David Kinley, Acting President from 1919 to 1920, and President since 1920. The University opened on March 2, 1868. The number of students enrolled was fifty, the faculty consisted of the Regent and two pro- fessors. During the first term another instruc- tor was added, and the number of students increased to 77-all men. During the first term instruction was given in algebra, geometry, physics, history, rhetoric, and Latin. During the autumn of 1868 a chemi- cal laboratory was provided, and laboratory work in botany was begun the following year. In january, 1870, a mechanical shop was equipped with tools and machinery, and here was begun the first shop instruction given in any American university. On March 9, 1870, the Trustees voted to admit women as students. In the year 1870-71, twenty- four availed themselves of the privilege. Since that time they have constituted from one-sixth to one-fourth of the total number of students. In 1892, graduate work was undertaken un- der the name of the Graduate School. The first summer session was held in 1894. The depart- ment of music became the School of Music in 1897. The work in law was organized as the School of Law in 1896--the name being changed to the College of Law in 1900. The General Assembly made a special appropria- tion in 1900 to establish courses of training for business life, and the Trustees organized the Courses in Business Administration, which in 1915 became the College of Commerce and Business Administration. In 1905, the Trustees established a School of Education, which be- came the College of Education in 1918. The School of Railway Engineering and Adminis- tration was created in 1907, following the es- tablishment in 1906 of the department of rail- way engineering. The General Assembly in 1909 established the department of mining en- gineering. In IQI3, the College of Literature and Arts and the College of Science were united to form the present College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. .1 7 'lf J lifiilf QI I l.....1i2 1'1'7.'-i...'. ffl 11. .2 11 :.,, ' l 27