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

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tm lluo Of iride£rujjL Herbert indsor Mimford, Dean of llu- College of Agriciilliire. Director of llie Agriculmral I ' .xperimenl Slalion and Agricullural Kxlension Service, was born in Moscow. Michigan. Felirnary 26. 1871. lie received liis edncalion al ll ion College and Michigan State College, from which lie was gradnaleil in IKOI. and from whicji he received ' the honorarv ilegrei ' of Doctor of Agricnltiirc in 1927. Hemming to his Mma Malcr in l!i »5;. he served as an instructor and assisTant in the Agriciillnral College and I ' xperiment Station, attaining his full professorshiii in IK ' W. In 1901 he was appointed Professor d ' nimal llnshandry al ihe L ' niversity of Illinois, and since that time has heen here conlinuously. serving in his present capacity since 1922. 11khbi;ht W. Mi ' mford The College of Agriculture Till ' . College of Agriculltire .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 sinee 1895. The staff, including mem- bers in the Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service, now ntimbcrs approximately one hundred eighty. Buildings, land. laboralor equipment, and other facilities have grown from very meager beginnings to the point where the institution is among the best equipped of its kind. iMirollment in the College has increased from 50 in 1870, to 656 in 1932. Research and experimental ] rojects are in progress to help solve the practical and scientific problems confronting farmers and homemakers individually and collectively. Something of the scope of the Agricultural Experiment Station ' s work can be judged from an annual report of approximately 270 pages. From the results of the research and experimental work, proven methods are introduced into every section of the state through the work of the agricultural and home economics extensioti services. tm-f f na sam Old Agriculture Building P«g ' - 25

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ijmy I Ulo ct undje£nj)u: De iv Charles M, Thompson Charles Manfred Thompson, 09, Dean of ihe College of Com- merce and Director of (he Bureau of Business Research, was born in Fairfield, Illinois, on November 10, 1877. (hi complelino; his lunlergraduale work here, he wenl lo Harvard Lniversitv, where he studied in 1910-1911. returninji to the University of INinois in 1911 as an assistant in historv. He continued his o;raduate work here, receiving his Doctor of Philosoj»hy degree in 1913. Since that time he has been serving continuously on the faculty, accepting his present position in 1912. In 1932 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 L ' tililies an l Transportation. The College of Commerce ALTHOUGH courses in business and commercial training were offered as early as 1902 under the supervision of Dr. David Kinlev. Dean of the College of Literature and Arts, it was thirteen vears later that the College of Commerce and Business Adminis- tration was organized as an independent and educational unit with a Dean and a faculty. 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 whatever they undertake. To put the matter in other words, they learn how to make tools as well as sharpen them. ■I» i -. ' =. .A Ai-is fc.. -5B iJ. J -i i.w ni. ' ' ir %aE«l Co M M Kiic I-: H I- 1 ijji N(; Prtg,- 24

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mz I Ulo c unjd)ien UL I TnoM4S Eliot Benner, Dean of the College of Educalion, was born in Danvers, Massachusells, February 11, 1894. He was grad- uated from Harvard University in 1914, relurninf; for graduate work in 1015 and again in 1Q22. and receiving his Doctor of Edu- cation degree in 1924. His experience includes public school work in Massachusetts, Maine, and Alabama, the chancellorship of the Universitv of Porto Rico, and a visiting professorship at Columbia L ' niversitv. He became Dean of the College of Education Sep- tember r, 1931. De ' THf M s E. Ben kr The College of Education THE College of Educalion 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 wav for this action had been prepared by Charles de Garmo, Professor of Psvchologv. who had shown an especial interest in the studv of education. In 1 00 there was established a Department of Kducation, which became the School of l ' ]ducalion in 1907. and finallv received its present title, the College of Education, in 1QI8. The major obligation of the College has been considered from the beginning to be the training of high school teachers, principals, supervisors, and superintendents. In 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 15. K. Buckingham. 13 i i- -SS H fTS PhJ B ES m ' M KsmLTBaaspfiw?- ' immiSi w: Administration Building Paiir 26