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

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THE COLLEGE OF LAW DEAN Aruisiti' J. I'lA1iNO Legal education has had a rapid development during the last generation. In 1900 preparation for the bar through study in a lawyer's office was common. That year the Association of American Law Schools was formed. This Law School, through a representative, participated in the organization of that Association and became a charter member. The Association has had a far-reaching effect as a stimulus to the improvements of legal education throughout the United States. In 1921 the American Bar Association, in a formal resolution, adopted standards bearing on legal education and expressed the opinion that every candida.te for admission to the bar should give evidence of graduation from a law school complying with those standards. In 1923 the Council on Legal Education of that Association, acting as a standardizing agency, gave its approval to a small number of law schools. This Law School was one of the first group to be approved by the Council. During this period of transition and progress in legal education this School has advanced its standards even more rapidly than the general movement. When the School was organized in 1897 it admitted high school graduates to its courses. In 1911 the entrance requirement was increased to one year of college work, and in 1915 it was advanced to two years. In 1929 and 1931 further advances were made to the present requirements. Atmzitr JAMES I-IAitNo is serving his fourth year as Provost of the University in addition to his position of Dean of the College of Law. He was born in Holabird, South Dakota, january 30, 1889. He was graduated from Dakota Wesleyaii Uni- Al versity in 1911, and in 1927 received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from 0 the same school. Dean Harno received his Bachelor of Laws degree, Magna Cum Laude, at Yale University, in 1914. He practiced in Los Angeles until 1917, when he became Dean of Washburn College of Law in Topeka, Kansas. In 1919 he went to the University of Kansas, where he served for two years as Professor of Law. He came to the University of Illinois in 1921 as Professor of Law, and became Dean in 1922. i Page 29

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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

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, THE COLLEGE OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS DEAN Rnxronn Nzzwcomn Training in the Fine Arts was provided in the original plans made for the University by the first Regent Cpresidentj , Dr. John Milton Gregory, and early in the history of the institution, courses in drawing and architecture were offered. Music also made an early appearance, and by 1897 the School of Music had been organized as a separate educational unit. Training in Landscape Architecture was first offered by the College of Agriculture. Thus there grew up in four separate administrative divis- ions of the University the teaching faculties in Art, Architecture, Music, and Landscape Architecture. For a number of years it had been felt that the Fine Arts interests on the campus should be brought into closer relationship. This however, was not possible until the Building for Architecture and Kindred Subjects was completed in 1927. Thereafter plans for the grouping of these interests moved rapidly forward with the result that in 1931 the College of Fine and Applied Arts was estab- lished. The College offers eight professional curricula in various branches of the Fine Arts, leading to appropriate degrees. In addition to the professional curricula in the arts, the College offers oppor- tunities for students who wish to acquaint themselves with the arts from a purely cultural standpoint. Ruxrfoiui Nnwcomis, Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, has been on the Illinois faculty since 1918 when he succeeded to the teaching work of the late distinguished Dr. Nathan Clifford Ricker. Dean Newcomb's academic training was received at the Universities of Kansas and Southern California, from the latter of which he holds the Master of Arts degree. He took his professional training on the local campus and holds both the Bachelor's degree and the professional degree of Master of Architecture from Illinois. Before returning to Illinois to serve on the faculty he held professorships ar the University of Southern California and at Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. Wlieii the College of Fine and Applied Arts was organized in 1931 he was appointed its first dean. 'ii m'T'fEYlT1i1E1i1i Page 30