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

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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

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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 uNlvERslrY or 'I-Luo ILLINOIS ILLIO OF1 E1LH'IlII,0l', Olrl A11ric1tli1t1'e Bu-ilzliny Ilunaum' Wmosou MUBIFORD, Dean of the College of Agri- culture, Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Agricultural Extension Service, was born in Moscow, Mich- igan, February 26, 1871. He received his education at Albion College and Michigan State College, from which he was grad- uated in 1891, and from which he received the honorary de- gree of Doctor of Agriculture in 1927. Returning to his Alma DEAN I-IlCRBl4lli'l' YV. MUMFORD Mater in. 1895, he served as an instructor and assistant in the Agricultural College and Experiment Station, atttaining his full projessorship in 1899. In 1901 he was appointed Profes- sor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Illinois, and since that time has been here continuously, serving in his present capacity since 1922. THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE HE College of Agriculture serves an Illinois industry valued at three and three-quarter billion dollars. It had its beginning in 1867 with the establishment of the Illinois Industrial University, and has made rapid progress since 1895. The staff, including members in the Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Serv- ice, now numbers approximately two hundred. Buildings, lands, laboratory equipment, and other facilities have grown from very meager beginnings to the point where the institution is among the best equipped of its kind. Enrollment in the College has increased from 50 in 1870 to 658 in 1931. Two hundred sixty-five research and experimental projects are in progress to help solve the practical and scientific problems confronting farmers and homemakers individually and collectively. Results of the research work and its practical appli- cation to farming and homemaking have added greatly to the wealth of the state, besides being of economic and social value to the nation and the world-at-large. Old Agriculture Building -OF NINETEENTHIRTY-TWO 932 -ttf Pace 25 E+ 'Zia , Ill