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

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Wj LUjd c£ iimeiejen u: Al.HKKT .1 VMES ll RNO, Dcaii (if I lic ( ' .( llcp;c of Luw, was horn in lli laliinl. Soulli Dakota. January 30. IHK9. He was graduated from Dakota W csleyan Luivcrsity in l ' )ll. from which school he received the honorary ilef;rft ' of Doctor of Laws, in 1927. In 1914 he received his Bachelor of Laws degree, magna cum laude. at Yale L ' niversitv. He practiced in Los Angeles until 1917, when he hecame Dean and Professor at ashhurn 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 li his deanship. The College of Law Dean Albert J. Harno THE primary purpose of the College of Law is to train students for the practice of law. But, as a diversity of types and methods of training, with varying degrees of emphasis, are included under the general title of Educ. tion, so is the situation in legal education. The faculty of the College seeks among its objectives to impress on students the value of learning to think clearly and to the point, and to inculcate in them an appreciation of the purpose of law in the social order and tiie necessity of its growth to the end that it will keep pace with the changing conditions. This process involves a stiulv of the decisions of courts: it also includes the stressing of social and economic factors as forces contributing to and influencing legal decisions and trends in the law. As an integral part of its program, the College aims to promote legal scholarship and research, to develop an appreciation of the highest ideals of the profession, and to inspire the consciousness of responsibility of the lawyer to society in furthering the wise develop- ment of law and in improving its administration. To students of high scholarship so inclined, the School offers opportunity for train- ine for law teaching. ' m Law BL■ILDl c Pa.i

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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

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mj y I Uio c nirvde£n Ji Ke K)ri Newcomh. Dean of the (] )lle»;e of Fint and Applied Arts, was Imrn al Independence, Kansas, on April 24, 1886. He received his Bachelor of Science degree al (he University of Kansas, Iiis Bachelor ttf Archileclnre degree and his Master of Architecture degree al the L niversily of Illinois, and Ills Master of Arts degree al the Lniversilv »f Southern California. These studies were sup- plemented by travel in both Eurojje and the Orient. He was Director of the Department of Fine and Ap|)lied Arts of Poly- technic Institute, Long Beach. California, princijial of the Long Beach Fvening High School for four years, and has held professor- ships at Southern (California. Texas Vgricidlural and Mechanical College, and al the Lniversilv of Illinois. He has been on ihe faculty in Architecture at the L niversiiy of Illinois for fifteen years, and Professttr of History of Archileclnre for eleven years. He was appointed to his present position in 1932. Deats Rexford ISewcomb The College of Fine and Applied Arts THK College of Fine and Applied Arts which resulted from a grouping, in l )31.of the Departments of Architecture and Art. the Division of Landscape Architecture and the School of Music, is just completing the second vear of its existence as a separate ad- ministrative unit of the University. But while the College, as such, is new. the various departments comprising it have long been in existence and have contributetl hundreds of competent graduates to the professional and educational world. The College offers nine curricula in the various branches of the arts leading to appropriate degrees. Thes.e cm-ricula are so framed that the student obtains as wide a training in liberal studies as is compatible with the la ing of firm foundations in the particular art which he proposes to practice. The college enrolls some six hundred professional students an- nualh . In addition to this number should be added several hundred from other colleges of the Universit , who desire to profit b) the cultural advantages which the College offers. The courses in the appreciation of art. architecture, landscape architecture, and music are particularly popular with non-professional students. Architecture Huil,rn c Page 2S