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

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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

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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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t rl Q DEAN THOMAS 1-1. BENNER THOMAS ELIOT BHNNHR, Dean of the College of Education, was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, February ll, 1894. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1914, returning for graduate work in 1915 and again in 1922, and receiving his Doctor of Education degree in 1924. His experience includes THE COLLEGE Entra nee, A :lm in ix! ration Building public school work in Massachusetts, Maine, and Alabama, the chancellorship of the University of Porto Rico, and a vis- iting projessorship at Columbia University. He became Dean of the College of Education September I, 1931. OF EDUCATION HE College of Education had its origin in the creation of a chair of Pedagogics in 1893 and the selection of Dr. Frank Martin McMurry as its first occupant. The way for this action had been prepared by Charles de Carmo, Professor of Psychology, who had shown an especial interest in the study of education. ln 1900 there was established a Department of Education, which became the School of Education in 1907, and linally received its present title, the College of Education, in 1918. The major obligation of the College has been considered from the beginning to be the training of high school teachers, principals, supervisors, and superintendents. ln carrying on this work, it has had at one time or another the services of men today known everywhere for their contributions, such as William Chandler Bagley, Lotus D. Coffman, W. W. Charters, and B. R. Buckingham. The attendance at the College has increased steadily from an enrollment of 87 the first year to 1,072 in the last year, when 391 bachelor and 55 master degrees were awarded. .-l4lmini.vlralion Building ati PAGE 26 lif- , ll gg g