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

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THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ' 'Q-5, .Lih- Hlaurmar WINDSOIK Mumronn, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and Agricultural Extension Service, was born in Moscow, Michigan, February 26, 1871. He attended Albion College and re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Science from Michigan Agricultural College, from l' l li- received the honor1ry degree of Doctor of Agriculture in 1927. He served W IIC 1 L 4 on the faculty of the same school from 1895 to 1901, when he came to the Univer- sity of Illinois as 1 professor of Animal Husbandry and Chief of the Animal Husbandry ' ' ' ' b of Experimental Stationg he became Dean in 1922. Dean Mumford was a mem er thc American Study Commission for German Agriculture in 1928, and is now a member of various scientific and agricultural organizations. A very large part of the population of Illinois lives in what may properly be called a rural en- vironment. It is the duty and privilege of the College of Agriculture to train men and women for successful achievement and citizenship 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 agri- cultural 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 Agricultural Experiment Station is constantly discovering new knowli edge which is put into teachable form for the benefit of students and farmers. L E A R'N I N G 84 L A B O R Page 27

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THE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION DEAN CHARLES M. THOMPSON Courses in business were first organized in 1902 under the supervision of Dr. David Kinley, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and constituted the business curriculum of that College. In 1915 the College of Commerce and Business Administration was founded as a separate unit and was located in the building which is now the east Wing of the Administration Building. The in- creased enrollment in business courses necessitated larger quarters, and in 1926 the present Com- merce Building Was dedicated. The College consists of two departments, Economics, and Business Organization and Operation, Whose primary object is to train the student in sound fundamental principles rather than in tech- nique and routine, and with special training for particular business callings. To further this end, theories rather than practices are stressed in the classroom. Students in the College of Commerce therefore are led to know the way of whatever they undertake. To this end, courses in economics, accountancy, business organization and operation, banking, commerce, transportation, public util- ities, and industry are offered in combination with courses in language and literature, the social sciences, law, mathematics, and the natural sciences. CHARLES IVIANFRED THOMPSON, '09, Dean of the College of Commerce and Director of the Bureau of Business Research, was born in Fairfield, Illinois, on No- vember 10, 1877. After securing his A.B. and A.M. degrees here in 1909 and 1910, respectively, he went to Harvard University, where he studied in 1910-11, returning to the University of Illinois in 1911. I-Ie has served continuously on the faculty of the University since that time and has been a member of the College of Commerce faculty since the organization of the College, in 1915. In 1913 he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Illinois. He was promoted to the rank of professor in 1919 and at the same time was appointed Dean of the College of Com- merce. Eff ' I Page 26

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THE CCJLLEGE OF EDUCATION THOMAS Fuor BENNER, Dean of the College of Education, was born in Danvcrs, Massachusetts, February 11, 1894. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1914 and received his degree of Doctor of Education in 1924. I-lis experience includes service as statistician and editor for the Alabama State Department of liducativun, and later, as acting dean of the College of Education of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the chancellorship of the University of Puerto Rico, and a visiting professorship at Columbia University. Recently, Dean Benner has been on the senate committee on educational policy, and a state legislative commission which investigated vocational teaching in Illinois. On September 1, 1931, he was made Dean of the College of Education at the University. The College of Education had its origin in the creation of a chair of Pedagogics in 1893 and the selection of Dr. Frank Martin McMurry as its first occupant. The way for this action had been prepared by Charles de Garmo, Professor of Psychology, who had shown a special interest in the study of education. In 1900 there was established a Department of Education, which became the School of Education in 1907, and finally received its present title, the College of Education, in 1918. Illinois is the third state in population and has a public school system that enrolls one and a half million pupils who are taught by forty-eight thousand teachers. There has been a steady increase in the preparation of teachers for the increasingly complex demands that are made upon them. The College of Education plays a major role in the task of supplying the schools with qualified teachers, supervisors, and administrators, particularly at the junior and senior high school levels In addition to the Division of General Education, there are special curricula in Agricultural Education, Industrial Education, and Home Economics Education The laboratory Work of the Col lege of Education centers around the work of the University High School This school, limited to 250 students, offers the customary high school curricula The courses in educational practice are con ducted by the instructors of the high school in connection with their teaching E A R N I N G 84 L A B O Page 2 8