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

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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

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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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they I Ulo q£ injdie£nJ)J: Phineas Lawrence indsor. Director of the Lniversilv Lihrarv and the Library School, horn February 21, 1871, at Chenoa, Illinois, has spent twenty-nine years in library work. He was graduated from Northwestern Uniyersity in 1895. and studied at the New York State Library School from 1897 to 1899. On leaying there he began his actiye work as assistant in the New York State Library, but changed to the copyright office of the Library of Congress in 1900. In 1903 he became librarian of the L ' niyersity of Texas, serving there until 1909, when he accepted his present position. DiRECTOK Phine s L. Windsor The Library and the Library School TTIE University Library, through the General Library and its branches, provides the books needed by students for required reading for class work: it provides books for much of the students ' general reading, such as those in the Browsing Room; it provides books for graduate students, who in writing theses often must con- sult many uncommon volumes; and it provides books the faculty need in their investigations. Not having all the books required, especially for the two latter classes of users, it borrows more than 500 books a vear from libraries in other parts of the country. The librarians organize the more than 870.000 volumes into a useable library, and give much assistance to students and faculty. The Librarv School is a professional school for the training of librarians, and admits only college graduates, because a librarian ' s first need is a good, general education. Students come to it from every part of the country, and its graduates are in libraries similarly located. University of Illinois Libr hv Page jO