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

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MTMTrmjIfimnllllllil THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE Dean Herbert Windsor Mum ford ill till Herbert Windsor Mumford, Dean of the College of Agriculture, and Director of the Agricultural Experiment S tation and the Agricultural Extension Service since 1922, was born in Moscow, Michigan, February 26, 1871. He attended Albion College and then Michigan State College, where he received the Bachelor of Science degree and the honorary degree of Doctor of Agriculture. He served on the faculty of Michigan State College from 1895 to 1901 when he came to the University of Illinois as professor of Animal Husbandry and chief of Animal Husbandry in the Agricultural Experiment Station. Dean Mumford is a member of numerous agricultural and scientific organiza- tions. He received noteworthy recognition while he was a member of the American Study Commission for German Agriculture in 1928 and a member of the Mexican Agricultural Commission in 1930. In addition to being the author of two books on agriculture, he has contributed material to the Cyclopedia Americana and the Cyclo- pedia of American Agriculture. The College of Agriculture had its beginning in a course in agriculture and horticulture which was one of two offered when the University of Illinois began instruction on March 2, 1-868, as the Illinois Industrial University. There were but three instructors and only fifty men students in the en- tire institution. Today the College of Agriculture has a staff of approximately 235, and an enrollment of more than 1,200 students in agriculture and home economics. From its thousands of graduates come leaders in farming and homemaking, in the teaching and extension service of agriculture and home economics, and in technical positions and public service closely allied to these two fields. Out of its Experiment Station issue new facts upon which a more stable agriculture, a happier rural life, and greater consumer satisfactions are built. Through its Extension Service farm- ers, homemakers, and consumers everywhere get the teach- ings and findings of the University. There is perhaps no better reflection of the College's wide range of service than the fact that some 18,000 people annually attend its con- ferences, meetings, and short courses. 937 Page 29

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THE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Dean Charles Manfred Thompson This college, in common with the other colleges and schools on the campus, has as its chief aim the development of young men and women foT normal, happy lives. A secondary aim is their training for successful careers in busi- ness. Our objective is a sound understanding of basic social and economic principles attended by some grasp of the de- tails involved in operating these principles in everyday life, and of the consequences such operations entail on society in general. Someone on the faculty has said that the College of Com- merce attempts to educate its students to become tool makers and not tool sharpeners. The meaning is, of course, that we are but little concerned in our students acquiring immediate facility in handling routine; what we seek is ultimate power. Some notion may be had of the nature of our educational ideals from an oft-repeated statement heard among the faculty: This College is little more than a College of Arts and Sciences where the students are given a general educa- tion with a bias toward business. The test of our work is not to be had during the first few months out of college, but rather after years as a useful member of society. Charles Manfred Thompson '09, Dean of the College of Commerce, was born in Fairfield, Illinois, November 10, 1877. After receiving his A.B. and A.M. degrees here, he went to Harvard University for more extensive study. He returned to the University in 1911 and since then has served on the faculty. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1913. Six years later he was promoted to the rank of professor and, at the same time, was appointed Dean of the College of Commerce. When the Bureau of Business Research was established in 1921, Dean Thompson was made Director. He holds two honorary degrees, an LL.D., from Muskingum College and a D.Litt. from McKendree College. In March, 1934, the Urbana Association of Commerce conferred on Dean Thompson its Distinguished Citizenship Award for Meritorius Public Service. 937 Page 28

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THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Dean Thomas Eliot Benner Thomas Eliot Benner, Dean of the College of Education, was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, February 11, 1894. He received his first degree from Harvard in 1914 and, in 1924, the degree of Doctor of Education. After serving as statistician and editor for the Alabama State Department of Education, he became the acting dean of the College of Education at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He was also Chan- cellor of the University of Puerto Rico (1924-29) and visiting professor at Columbia University (1929-31). Since 1931 he has been the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois. He has served on a committee of the state legislature which investigated vocational education in Illinois, and as chairman of the advisory committee to the Educational Commission of the 1935 legislature. Among his activities are Phi Delta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, and offices in several national professional organizations. One of the major functions of the College of Education is to contribute to the building up of better relationships between the University of Illinois and the public schools of the State in the interests of the million and one-half pupils in the public schools of the State. The more effec- tively the University performs in its relationship to the public schools, the more certainly it can count upon the kind of good will which will result in bringing to the University the most promising of their graduates. The College of Education, which is in a sense a liaison office between the public schools and the University, had its origin in 1893 in the influence of Charles de Garmo, Professor of Psychology. This resulted in the creation of a chair of Pedagogics and the selection of Dr. Frank Martin McMurray as its first occupant. In 1900 a Department of Education was set up which became, in 1907, the School of Education and later, in 1918, received its present title, the College of Education. At the same time, the Bureau of Educational Research was established. The College contributes to the preparation of teachers, supervisors, principals, superintendents, and teachers of education in colleges and universities. 1937