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

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DEAN Arm-1u'r J. HARNU ALBERT JAMES HARNO, Dean of the College of Law, was born in Holabird, South Dakota, January 30, l889. He was graduated from Ua- kota Wesleyan University in l9ll, from which school he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, in 1927. In l9l4, he received his Bachelor of Laws degree, magna cum laude, at Yale University. He practiced in Los An- geles until l9l7, when he became Dean and Professor at Washburii College of Law in Topeka, Kansas. In l9l9 he went to the Uni- versity of Kansas as Professor of Law. He has served here as Professor of Law since l92l, and as Dean since 1922. This year he is serving as Provost of the University in addition to his deanship. The College of Law HE 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 Education, so is the situation in legal education. The faculty of the Col- lege seeks among its objectives to impress on students the value of learning lo think clearly and to the point, and to inculcate in them an appreciation of the purpose of law in the social order and the necessity of its growth to the end that it will keep pace with the changing conditions. This process involves a study of the decisions of courtsg 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 development of law and in im- proving its administration. To students of high scholarship so inclined, the School offers opportunity for training for law teaching. Admission to the College of Law is granted only to graduates of colleges and universities of approved standing and to students of senior standing who are permitted to elect courses in law for the degree of Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science. The school further requires a scholastic average' of C in undergraduate work as a further condi- lion governing the entrance of seniors in the University. i LAW BUILDING 1-s.,nw,-., ..,,.,.- ,,.,,.f.1.U- Q, -.. .?.,Z...?-,-f-ba-v--H F' 4- gy: - , f , e V ff-, 1 V V Page 23 .r

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The College of Education HE College of Education had its origin in the creation of a chair of Pedagogics in 1893 and the selection of Dr. Frank Martin Mc1VIurry as its Hrst occupant. The way for this action had been prepared hy Charles de Carmo, Professor of Psychology, who had shown a special interest on the study of education. ln 1900 there was established a Depart- ment of Education, which became the School of Education in 1907, and finally received its present title, the College of Education, in 1918. From the beginning, the major obligation of the College has been considered to be the training of high school teachers, principals, supervisors, and superintendents. A large proportion of its graduate students, however, have entered the field of the teaching of education in colleges and universities. DEAN THOMAS E. Ili-:Niven Tuowms liuor BENNER, Dean of the College of Education, was born in Danvers, Massachu- setts, February 11, 1894. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1914, returning for graduate work in 1915 and again in 1922, and receiving his Doctor of Education degree in 1924. His experience includes teaching and pnhlic school aclministration in Maryland, Massachusetts and llaineg service as statis- tician and editor lor the Alabama State De- partment of Education. and. later. as acting dean of the College ol Education of the Ala- lrama Polytechnic lnstitutei the chancellorship of the Liniversity ol l'uerto llico, and a visiting proiiessorship at Columbia University. Ile be- came Dean of the College ol Education Sep- tember 1, 1931. ln addition to the Division of General Education, there are special curricula in Agricultural Education, lndus- trial Education, and Home Economics Education. The University High School is maintained as a laboratory school, and the Bureau of Educational Research has as its special function the conduct of investigations in the field of education. V i :Xll3IINIQTR.X'l'ION 1il'lI.IlINl' Zaye 22 , . 2 Hire! wtf if-li ' -5 J S fra? it at 3, ! L . ta -131 ei , i.. ,,,,-N, v 2 ,i 'xv':g.w,r 1. im . az W in-v F.Q-.v, w1xwfrfa1f'-s',3-.HU -Q.-,gg ,V-if, fSZ3:w4v5A?':w f.2ff13i5Hvhw' my w.1.1f1f.i-..'?,gfiG'f . K ki 1 is mr' -v

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Page Q4 The College of Fine and Applied Arts HE College of Fine and Applied Arts, which resulted from a grouping, in 1931, of the School of Music, the Departments of Architecture and Arts, and the Division of Landscape Architecture, is just completing the third year of its existence as a separate administrative unit of the Uni- versity. But while the College, as such, is young, the various departments comprising it have long been in existence and have contributed hundreds of competent graduates to the professional and educational world. The College offers nine curricula in the various branches of the Fine Arts leading to appropriate degrees. These curricula are so framed that the student obtains as wide a training in liberal studies as is compatible with the laying of firm foundations in the particular art which he proposes to practice. The College enrolls in excess of live hundred professional students annually in addition to almost an equal number from other colleges of the University who desire to avail themselves of the cultural advantages which the College affords. The courses in the history and appreciation of art, architecture, landscape architecture and music are particularly popu- lar with non-professional students. l DEAN Rnxronn NEVYCUMB Rsxrono Nawcoiim, Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, was born at Inde- pendence, Kansas. He received his preliminary college training at the University of Kansas hut studied architecture at the University of lllinois, receiving from this institution both the Bachelor's degree and the professional de- gree of Master of Architecture. His Master of Arts degree was gained at the University of Southern California. His academic studies were supplemented by wide travel in both Europe and the Orient. Dean Newcomb was for five years Director of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at Long Beach Poly- technic tCalifornial, for four years Director of Adult Education and Principal of the Long Beach Evening High School. Before coming to Illinois he held professorships at the Uni- versity of Southern California and at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, at the latter institution also serving as College Archi- tect. He came to the University of Illinois in 1913 and has been Professor of the History of Architecture since 1921. He is the author of a number of volumes and several hundred magazine articles on the line arts and is well known as an editor and lecturer. He was ap- pointed to his present position in 1932. 1 ARL'HITEC'l'l'RE BUILDING