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

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The College oT AgriculTure is a direcT ouT- growTh oT The Morrill AcT oT l862. This legisla- Tion became popularly lcnown as The Land-granT College ACT, since iT provided Tederal supporT Tor sTaTe educaTional insTiTuTions which oTTered agriculTure, mechanics, and miliTary. The Uni- versiTy oT lllinois has had a College oT AgriculTure ever since iT was charTered in l867. The College oT AgriculTure has Three maior goals: To improve The gualiTy oT The producTs grown in Illinois and The eTTiciency oT Their pro- ducTion, To advance The welTare oT Those engaged in agriculTure, and To creaTe a beTTer undersTand- ing oT The place agriculTure holds in our economy. Courses dealing wiTh The producTion, marl4eT- ing, processing, and uTilizaTion oT Tood and cloTh- ing maTerials are oTTered. The Teachings oT The College are viTalized by The worlc oT The Experi- menT STaTion, wiTh iTs hundreds oT proiecTs de- signed To TesT new pracTices, and by The close conTacT which members oT The sTaTT have wiTh The people oT The sTaTe Through iTs ExTension Service. Avting I7 College of Agriculture M xford Hall I 1

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Navy Pier Chicago Undergraduate Division ln l946 lhe Universily of Illinois esiablished ils now well-known Unclergraduale Division a+ Navy Pier in Chicago. l-lere rhe sludenrs may have complele pre-professional courses of sludy in lib- eral arrs and sciences, commerce and business adminislraiion, anol engineering. Curricula in Jrhe professional courses of archirecrure, archirecural engineering, physical educalion, and nursing are available. The sruolenls enrolled al Chicago have +he same slalus as ihe sluclenis in Urbana, and are given priorily in compleiing lheir work for cle- grees on The downsrale campus. Through Hs eolucarional, social, and cullural program, Jrhe Di- vision provides iissuolenls wilh Jrhe same high degree of service which is a iraolilion of The Universilv of Illinois.

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Daxiri Kiiiley Hall College of Commerce ancl Business Administration The DeparTmenT OT Business OrganizaTion and OperaTion, The DeparTmenT oT Economics, The Bureau oT Economic and Business Research, and The Business lvlanagemenT Service are The Tour main divisions in The College oT Commerce and Business AdminisTraTion ThaT are presided over by Dean Paul Green. The maior aim oT Commerce and Business Ad- minisTraTion is To oTTer a varieTy OT courses in a broad curriculum which should equip sTudenTs To meeT The problems oT every-day living as well as Tor careers in business, economics, and The ad- minisTraTive branches oT governmenT. A well- rounded program includes basic and general Training vviTh opporTuniTies Tor specializing in ac- counTancy, commercial Teaching, commerce and law, economics OT public uTiliTies, TransporTaTion, Tinance, general economics, governmenT and bus- iness, economic Theory, indusTrial adminisTraTion, managemenT, labor economics, sTaTisTical eco- nomics, and secreTarial Training.