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

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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

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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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2 .. -.. . b. Entrance, Law Iiuildiny ALBERT ,Innes HAIINO, Dean of the College of Law, was born in Holabird, South Dakota, January 30, 1889. He was grad- uated from Dakota Wesleyan University in 1911, from which school he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1927. In 1914 he received his Bachelor of Law degree, magna cum laude, at Yale University. He practiced in Los Angeles DEAN ALBl4lIt'1' J. HARNO ltfllll 1927, when he became Dean and Professor at Washburn College of Law in Topeka, Kansas. In 1919 he went to the University of Kansas as Professor of Law. He has served here as Professor of Law since 1921, and as Dean since 1922. This year he is serving as Provost of the University in addition to his deanship. THE COLLEGE OF LAW HE College of Law was organized and opened in September, 1897, offering a three-year course of training. In 1911, the entrance requirement was made one year of eollege work, and in 1915 it was increased to two years. Since 1929, admission has been granted only to graduates of colleges and universities of approved stand- ing and to students in the University of Illinois of senior standing, the latter being permitted to elect, courses in law for the degree of Bachelor of Arts or for the degree of Bachelor of Science. The College of Law aims to prepare students for the legal profession, but in doing so it seeks also to promote legal scholarship and research, to develop an appreciation of the highest ideals of the profession, and to inspire the consciousness of the lawyer's responsibility to society. In response to an increasing demand for specialization in the practice of law, the College of Law has adopted a curriculum which permits a student to ground himself in the fundamentals of law, and yet specialize in any particular field of law into which he wishes to go. 1 Law Building f . 1 'I i fi if mf F in if N ei if i it X n at ' tif it - K Q , v L .. .. f , t .. 1 .. ., -'El Page 27 lil'- - fart f l Wilt