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

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THE ILLIC CF IQZQI Clrernistry Building THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Kanmuc CHARLES Brmcocx, Dean of flue College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was born in South Brookfield, New York, on September 8, 1864. He studied at tlve University of Mirxrzesota and at Harvard, completing lvis worlc tlrere in 1896. On leaving Harvard, lve became an assistant professor at the University of California, 'rvlriclv position lve left to accept tlre presidency of the University of Arizona in 1903. From 1910 to 1913 he served as a specialist in lviglver education on tlve United States Bureau of Education, accepting DEAN KENDRIC C. BABCOCK lris present position at tlre end of tlrat time. HE College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was founded in 1913 by the union of the former College of Liberal Arts with the contemporary College of Science. Since that time the Colleges of Commerce and Education and the School of Journalism have arisen from former departments of this College. It is still the largest of the Colleges, not only in the number of its students, but also in the size of its faculty. Its nineteen separate depart- ments and its afliliation with the other Colleges, and Schools of the Uni- versity oiler the student a general education. The College offers special curricula in Chemistry and in Chemical Engi- neering, as well as pre-professional courses in preparation for journalism, law, and medicine. The College provides, moreover, instruction in its several departments for students registered in other Colleges to such an extent that it may well be considered the general service school of the University. J 1 I pm Hifi PAGE 25

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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!

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,THE ILLIC OF I929 New Agriculture Building THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 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 Agricultural College, from which be was graduated in 1891. Returning to his alma mater in 1895, be served as an instructor and assistant in the Agricultural Experiment Station, attaining bis full professorslrip in 1899. In 1901 be became Professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Illinois, and since that time bas been here continuously, serving in his present capacity since 1922. PAGE 26 DEAN HERBERT W. MUMFORD VERY large part of the population of Illinois lives in what may prop- erly be called a rural environment. It is the duty and privilege of the College of Agriculture to train men and women for successful achievement in such an environment. It is the aim of the College to malce available to ,its students, through systematic instruction, the discoveriesiof scienceancl the experiences of the best farmers of all time. Through experiment, investigation and research the Agricultural Experiment Station is constantly discovering new knowl- edge which is put into teachable form for the benefit of students and farmers. The College is also interested and primarily concerned with the training of men and women who, because of their education, will be able and willing to render a greater service to the world. . 754W