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

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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

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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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iruy I iljio c nirvde n u- Artiu R IIiLL Damels. D eaii of ihe Gradualo School, and Acting Dean of the College of Liberal rls and Sciences, was born in East Medwav, Massacbnsel Is. Oelober I ' ). I86.S. After receiving his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Clark L niversity in 1893. he came to the University of Illinois as an instructor in ])hilosophy and was i)romotcd to a professorship in lH ' )i). Kor a year and a half prior to the nnion of the College of l.iteratnre and Arts anil the College of Science in J9I3. he was Acting Dean of the former college. He is now for the fonrlh time serving as Acting Dean of the (lollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Since 1919 he has been connected with the office of the Graduate School as Assistant Dean for one vear. Acting Dean for two years, and Dean since 1921. Dean Arthur H. Damels The Graduate School GRADUATE study began at the University of Illinois when its doors were first opened for instruction in 1868 with a facitlty of four members and about fifty students. But tlie name Graduate Scliool was not used in any university pubhcations until 1892, wlien the Board of Trustees autliorized llie appointment of a special factiltv to have charge of graduate work. The Graduate School represents the organized effort of the University to utilize its re- sources for the preparation of advanced students for higher teaching and administrative positions, and of investigators in the various fields of human interest and progress. Its student body last year represented every state in the Union, fourteen foreign countries, and over three hundred universities and colleges. Four hundred sixtv-four Masters , seventy-three Doctors , and eleven professional degrees in engineering were conferred. Lincoln Hall Page 29