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

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Acrixc DEAN Marruiaw T. 1Wf'CI,I'lll'1 NIATTIIEW '1'noMvsoN lV1t1C1.URl'I, Acting Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. was born at Spottsford Virginia, April 27, 1883. He did his undergraduate work at Washington and Lee University, receiving a Bachelor's degree there in 1904. He next at- tended the University of Virginia where he received a lNlaster's degree in 1907, following which he attended Columbia University, from which, in 1912, he received a Doctor's degree. From 1915 to 1921 he was Professor of Philos- ophy in Tulane University. He came to the University of lllinois in 1921 as Associate Pro- fessor in Philosophy. In 1922 he became Pro- fessor of Philosophy and he was appointed Head of the Department of Philosophy in 1926. ln 1933 he was made Acting Dean of the Col- lege of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences N 1913 the College of Literature and Arts and the College of Sciences were united into a single College with the late Kendric C. Babcock as Dean. Since then the College has offered instruction in both the humanities and the sciences in a combined effort to integrate the claims of both. Although specific curricula are arranged to prepare the student to enter any one of the professional schools, the primary aim of the College is to provide the resources for a 6'liberal education. uLiberal'7 means, among other things, that in a program of studies emphasis is placed more on what contributes to a general understanding and interpretation of the problems, conflicts, tendencies and forces of life and experience as a whole, than what leads to an individual career. The College is the largest in the University. ln addition to handling its own students, it provides instruction in rhetoric, romance languages, mathematics, and the social sciences, for students registered in all the other colleges at Urbana. ln fact, this phase of the work has grown to such an extent that for the past few years, at least one-half of the total energy of the teaching staff has been devoted to the instruction of students enrolled in other colleges. .,,,,,g , 3 ' . -. P' ' W1 ' 1... A 'Away' .5 .1 , Aff N 'ZR CIIEMISTRY BUILDING Page 19

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The College of Engineering DUCATION in Engineering was ofliciallv recognized by the University Board of Trusteesgat its second meeting in May, 1367. when it pro- vided for the establishment of courses in Mechanical Science and Art. Civil Engineering, lVlining Engineering and Metallurgy, and Architecture and Eine Artsf, Actual instruction in Engineering began ,lanuary 1, 1870, hut announcements of the curricula in Engineering were not published until 1871-72, when four curricula were offered, namely, liflechanical En- gineering, Civil Engineering, lVlining Engineering, and Architecture. To- day thirteen curricula in the various fields of engineering are offered Within the College of Engineering itself, and several more are administered in other Colleges of the University. ln 1903 the Engineering Experiment Station, the first in the United States, was established, and 279 bulletins and circulars have been issued to date. A large number of cooperative research projects have been carried on in recent years for industries in the State of lllinois and for national engineering societies and associations interested in the advancement of knowledge in their various fields. Unix ,Xirrurir C. XX ii.i..uui An'riii'it lfir1 rs vilIl,I.Altll, Acting Ili-an ol' the College of Engineering and Acting Director of the Engineering Expt-riinent Station. was horn in Washington, D. fi., .Xugust 12. WTS. lle graduated from the Nlassachusetts lnstitute of Technology with the degree of H. 5. in Chem- ical Engineering in 190-f. Following his grad- uation he went to San Francisco, California, to teach industrial chemistry in the California School of 'Nlechanic Nrts. and after the earth- quake and fire, returned to his hirthplace as Assistant in Nlechanical Engineering at George Wlashington lfniversity. ln 1913 he came to the University of illinois to take charge of courses and research in heating and ventilation. He has been Head of the Department of Kle- chanical Engineering since 1920. From N09 to 1913 he was first assistant and later sanitary and heating engineer for the lfnited States Quartermaster Corps in charge -.1-i iii? of the heating and ventilation of all United ' r . . . . , Y' A The work of the Station has had a marked effect in stimulating formal States Army posts. During the war he was cons graduate studv in Enfrineerinff. and inanv de Jartments are develo inf' Sutter ellwlwer 0H.'re'He1hf Nut 'l'ul Anuy 5 - Z' F' C' F ' ' ' ' . ' . I u cantoninents, and since then has been consult- Q graduate courses as rapidly as their resources will permit. The importance ing engineer on ventilation projects for the of graduate work in Engineering was never greater than at the present U' SZ Bureau Ol Mme: the U' 5' 1U 1'1 Health , Service, the Holland lunnel, and the proposed ggi time. Chicago Suhway. Q as iii ri ,Yu rn 1 .23- Iixutxrziiiiiyu BUILDING f M55 f if ' .gf- lifizt.-:Hcfie ,JL--ti--rvM-1sf11'+f1'-g- ,ff',fw.j5a, g:,+51'E'i - ,,:gf,7f 5125129-:Q 3: -' 1 1 twiki, , vi , Page 124 V, W :hx xv-, uw . ,. V 55, VA, i K, gi

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The College of Commerce and Business Administration LTHOUGH courses in business and commercial training were offered as early as 1902 under the supervision of Dr. David Kinley, Dean of the College of Literature and Arts, it was thirteen years later that the College of Commerce and Business Administration 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. Stu- dents 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 to sharpen them. ' Dmx Cuinlizs M. 'fiiomiisox CHARLi:s NIANFRED THOMPSON, 109, Dean of the College of Commerce and Director of the Bu- reau of Business Research, was born in Fair- field, Illinois, on November 10, 1877. On completing his undergraduate work here, he went to Harvard University, where he studied in 1910-1911, returning to the University of Illinois in 1911 as an assistant in history. He continued his graduate work here, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy 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 Pro- fessorship of the Economics of Public Utilities, and in the same year he was appointed Head of the Department of Public Utilities and Transportation. ln addition to this, the College of Commerce aims to teach the students how to think, how to think in straight lines, and how to think without becoming tired too quickly. ln an effort to reach these ends, the curricula of the College are arranged so as to furnish an orderly progress in the student's development from the time he enters as a freshman until he is graduated at the end of his senior year. 53253. v gn fm' 've - sm. Digi? skit ' COMMERCE BUILDING if! Page 20