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

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n DEAN HERMRT XYIINDSOR Mer-iroan The College of Agriculture had its beginning in a com- bined course in agriculture and horticulture. This was one of two courses offered when the University of Illinois began instruction on March 2, 1868, as the Illinois Industrial University. There were only three instructors and fifty men students in the entire institution. Today the College of Agriculture has a stan' of approximately 250 and an en- rollment of more than 1,350 students in agriculture and home economics. From its thousands of graduates come leaders in farming and homemaking, in teaching and extension service in agri- e Coll of A ri ultur culture and home economics, and in technical positions and public service closely allied to these two helds. Through its Extension Service, farmers, homemakers, and consumers everywhere get the teachings and findings of the University. There is perhaps no better reliection of the Colleges wide range of service than the fact that some 13,000 people annually attend its conferences, meetings, and short courses. wif +. ,g Herbert Windsor Mumford, Dean of the Collere of Agriculture, and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station 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 decree -and the honorary degree of Doctor of Agriculture. He served on the faculty 'ot'-Michigan State College from 1895 to 1901, when he came to the University ot .Illinois as pro- fessor of Animal Husbandry and chief of Animal Husbandry in the Agricultural Experi- ment Station. Dean Mumford is a member of numerous agricultural and scientitic organizations. He received noteworthy recognition while he was a member ot the Amer- ican 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 Cyclopedia of American Agriculture. Page 29 4. 0 r il . '-U41 .. . c .xg-.V 914 1,51 Q 5 'gt .1 ,f

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1 Le, ? fri' X fNs W 1 s xefi , if! N Ky aff, at . 4 F .JN WIS. v A 1 e. he College of ducation Iiclucation is the largest enterprise carried on in the State of Illinois. Public education alone deals with nearly two million children of school age, involves a staff of more than forty-six thousand teachers, utilizes school property which has cost more than a billion dollars, and requires an annual expenditure of almost one hundred fifty million dollars, Through research, teaching, and service the University of Illinois contributes to the preparation and the guidance ot' the personnel on whom the wise conduct of this enterprise depends. DEAN THoatas Error BENNER The College of Education, which is in a sense a liaison otiice between the public schools and the University, had its origin in 1893 in the influence of Charles de Garmo, Professor of Psychology. In 1900 a Department of Educa- tion was set up which became, in 1907, the School of Edu- cation and later, in 1913, received its present title, the College of Education. At the same time, the Bureau of Educational Research was established. organizations. nv Page 30 'Ilromas Illiot Benner, Dean ot the College ol' Education, was born in Danvers, Iaflassacliusetts, February ll, 11-191. He graduated from Harvard in 191-l lA,B.l and received graduate degrees ti-im the same University in 1916 tA.M.l, 1923 lEd.M.1, and 1934 tEd,D,l. His pmtessional experience has included teaching in Maryland and Maine, Public School Administration in Massachusetts, service as Statistician and Editor with the Alabama State Department of Education, the Acting Dennship of the College of Education of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the Chancellorsbip of the University of Puerto Rico, and fr Visiting Pmtessorsliip at Columbia University. Since 1931 be has been Dean ot the College ut Education at the University of Illinois. He served as a member nt a rornnnssiun to investigate vocational education in Illinois, and as Chair- man of the Advisory I ornmittee to the Educational Commission in 193S, Hg i5 3 member of Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi and holds ottice in several national professional