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

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UIHE ILLIQ OF IQQQI MERLE J. TREES TO 'THE STUDENTS OF ILLINOIS I-IE EDITOR of the ILLIO has asked me to extend a word of greeting to the students of the University on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Sixty years ago, in March of 1868, the University of Illinois, with a faculty consisting of Regent Gregory and two professors, opened its doors to fifty young men. During the first term, another instruc- tor was added, and twenty-seven more students. It would have been an easy matter, if one had been there, to have extended greetings to the whole student body individually. Now, the registration approaches thirteen thousand. As I cannot greet you all in person, much as I should like to, I am glad of this opportunity to write a word of greeting to you. 'V The University of Illinois is peculiarly an experiment 'in democ- racy. It is an opportunity given by the people to the people of the state. It is not interested in making any person to be or to appear better or wiser than any other person--but if it shall have made a few of its thousands better and wiser than they were before, it will have been a success. President, Board of Trustees pm KW! PAGE 23

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THE ILLIO OF V929 HON. LEN SMALL THE BOARD OE TRUSTEES The Governor of Illinois The Superintendent of Public Instruction Hon. Len Small, Springfield Hon. Francis G. Blair, Springfield OFFICERS OF THE BOARD M. TREES, Chicago ..........,.,........... . . .President HARRISON E. CUNNINGHAM, Urbana. . ,.... Secretary A. M. BURKE, Champaign ..... ,.... T reasurer LLoYo MOREY, Urbana .........,.,............ Comptroller ELECTED MEMBERS james W. Armstrong Merle J. Trees Mrs. Anna W. Ickes Mrs. Laura B. Evans William L. Noble Rock Island Chicago Hubbard Woods Taylorville Chicago Mrs. Mary E. Busey George A. Barr Robert R. Ward Mrs. Helen M. Grigsby Urbana Ioliet Benton Pittsfield Blair Busey Barr Morey Grigsby Cunningham Burke Noble Ickes Evans Ward Armstrong 535 gen

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THE ILLIO OF 1929, New Commerce Building THE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CHARLES MANFRED TEIOMPSON, '09, Dean of tlre College of Commerce and Director of the Bureau of Business Research, was born in Fairfield, Illinois, on November 10, 1877. On completing his undergraduate Work here, Ire Went to Harvard University, 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 Plr.D. the next year. Since that time he has been serving continuously on the faculty, accepting his present position in 1919. DEAN CHARLES M. THOMPSON I I-IE aim of the College of Commerce is to develop power in sound thinking rather than facility in technique. The College is not interested in teaching students how to sharpen their business toolsg it is interested, however, in teaching them how to malce tools when, after they leave Col- lege, they meet up with tasks for which they have no tools. To put the matter in yet another way, the aim of the College of Com- merce is to give its students a liberal education with a bias toward business. This it cloes by requiring them to major in economics, accounting, business administration, and business law, by offering a variety of subject groups from which students may select according to their individual needs, and by permitting a rather liberal choice of elective courses. QL! P77 J iii!