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

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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

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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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DEAN Ili-LRBER1' W. lVllTMI-'ORD HERBERT WINDSOR lV1UMFORD, Dean of the Col- lege of Agriculture and Director of the Agri- cultural Experiment Station and Agricultural Extension Service, was born in Moscow, Mich- igan, February 26, 1871. He received his edu- cation at Albion College and Michigan State College, from which he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Agriculture in 1927. Re- turning to his Alma Mater in 1895, he served as an instructor and assistant in the Agricul- tural College and Experiment Station, attain- ing his full professorship in 1899. ln 1901 he was appointed Professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Illinois, and since that time has been here continuously, serving in his present capacity since 1922. The College of Agriculture VERY large part of the population of Illinois lives in what may prop- erly be called a rural environment. lt is the duty and privilege of the College of Agriculture to train men and women for successful achieve- ment in such an environment. The need for thorough training for agricultural leadership is obvious. It is becoming more and more evident that the farther removed we are from a frontier type of agriculture, the greater the need of a broad liberal, as well as a technical education of college grade for men engaged in agricultural pursuits. Such an education the College of Agriculture offers. The Experiment Station is not only assisting in the solution of current agricultural problems but also is constantly adding to the body of facts and principles which form the basis of our agricultural teaching and practice. It is the aim of the College to make available to its students, through systematic instruction, the discoveries of science and the experiences of the best farmers of all time. Through experiment, investigation, and research, the Agri- cultural Experiment Station is constantly discovering new knowledge which is put into teachable form for the benefit of students and farmers. OLD .AliRll'l'I.Tl'RE BVI LDING Page 21