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

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LLIO THE UNIVERSITY or ILLINOIS ILLIO or I E'ntra11c1', Clwmiutry Jmilrlirny HARRIS FRANCIS FLETCHER, Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, was born at Ypsilanti, Michigan, October 23, 1892. He left Michigan State Normal College in 1912, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1914. From the same University he received his Master of Arts degree in 1923 and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1926. Mr. Fletcher was superintendent ASSISTANT DEAN HARRIS F. FLETCHER of Schools at Algonac, Michigan, from 1914 to 1918, and instructed in rhetoric at the University of Michigan from 1923 to 1926. In 1926 he accepted the position of assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois. In 1931, he was appointed Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. THE COLLEGE CF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES LTHOUGH points of view regarding the securing of a liberal education have changed considerably in the past century, there is a certain persistence from one generation to another of interests peculiar to the liberal college. It has been apparent that the problems arising from those interests have been taking- a definite trend. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reflects this trend in the wide variety of opportunities offered to undergraduates, whether in the so-called humanities or in the sciences. This College has been concerned chiefiy with fitting young people to meet the problems of the present age, for this purpose drawing upon the intellectual and cultural as well as the factual heritages of the past and present. The College also offers approaches to various professional schools and colleges, these approaches being in the main attempts to aid the student in finding himself both professionally and as an adult human being. . ,V lj, QQ 51. fl' is v. K I X .1 saw at 1 ,t Ya fi C1H'YI'I'iNfl'1l Building 'OF NINETEENTHIRTY-TWO 932 at PAGE 23 yas I N OF lo

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THE UNIVERSITY OFILLIN W 1 .I L if Pm 22 ic.. I Q36 DEAN MILO S. KI'I'I'0IIUM Mn.o Ssirrn Kizrcnum, '95, Dean. of the College of Engineer- ing. was born in Kezvanee, Illinois, on January 26, 1872. Since Hnishing his undergraduate work, he has been constantly con- nected with universities, except for two brief periods. ln 1897-99 he served as bridge and structural engineer for the Cillett-Herzog Manufacturing Company, and in 1903-04 was l l l w l ' w Entrance, 1z'n11inr'vrin!1 Building the war he was Assistant Director of the U. S. Government Explosives Plants in administrative charge of the construction of the Smokeless Powder Plant at Nitro, West Virginia. Be- fore assuming his present position in 1922, he served in similar capacities at the University of Colorado from 1905 to 1919, ami nt the University of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1922. OIS ILLIO OF 'I931 with the American. Bridge Company in Kansas City. During THE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING HE history of the College of Engineering is as old as that of any of the Colleges in the University of Illinois, for in May, 1867, at its second meeting, the Board of Trustees adopted the report of its Committee on Courses of Study and Faculty which provided for Courses in Mechanical Science and Art, Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering and Metallurgy, and Architecture and Fine Arts. Instruction in Engineering began January 1, 1870, but announcements of the curricula in Engineering were not published until 1871-72, when four curricula were offered, namely: Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Architecture. Today the College of Engineering offers twelve curricula and has a splendidly equipped Experi- ment Station which does research work in all branches of the subject. The Engineering staff numbers 227, and the registration of students in October, 1931, was 1357, exclusive of 132 graduate students. Graduate work in engineering has developed markedly in the last few years. The several engineering departments have been strengthening their graduate courses as rapidly as their resources will permit, in an effort to stimulate interest in graduate work and research. 1 K ...lg ,vp .--4 ,-I-' ' - -an EIl!lI'7ll't'I'1Il!I Builuiinyr LIO OF NINETEENTHIRTY-TWO

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THE u .ILLIO NIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ILLIO OF 193. DEAN CHARLES M. THOMPSON CuAm,es MANrnso Tuomrson, '09, Dean of the College of Commerce and Director of the Bureau of Business Research, was born. in Fairheld, Illinois, on November 10, 1877. On completing his undergraduate work here, he went to Harvard University, where he studied in 1910-11, returning to the Uni- versity of Illinois in 1911 as an assistant in history. He con- tinued his graduate work here, receiving his Doctor of THE COLLEGE Entrance, Commerce Building Philosophy degree in 1913. Since that time he has been serv- ing continuously on the faculty, accepting his present position in 1919. In 1931 he accepted the McKinley Professorship of the Economics of Public Utilities, and in the same year he was appointed Head of the Department of Public Utilities and Transportation. OF COMMERCE LTHOUGH courses in business and commercial training were offered as early as 1902 under the supewision of Dr. David Kinley, Dean of the College of Literature and Arts, it was thirteen years later that the College of Commerce and Business Administration was organized as an independent and educational unit with a Dean and a faculty. It has grown steadily, until today the student enrollment exceeds two thousand, a little less than one-tenth of which are women. Its courses aim at the development of fundamentals, and to further this end, theories rather than practices are stressed in the classroom. Students in the College of Commerce therefore are led to know the way of what- ever they undertake. To put the matter in other words, they learn how to make tools as well as sharpen them. nf-:css J'jT'aa s, Q, 'Sf 'x ft? - 6 Sv 5. if w e .1 lu ir I ' Q 'Q f 1 at ss ' ,Q Commerce Building OF NINETEEN THIRTY-TWO f +34 Pace 24 R1- IWQ h l