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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 1
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PREFACE To the University of Illinois, as to other American universities, the entry of the United States into the Great War brought new obligations and new opportunities for service. The lamest contributions were doubtless made through individual mem ben of the University - faculty, alumni, and student - who devote themselves to the great cause in the most varied forms of military and civilian service. On the University Honor Roll of those who d.ed in the service are the names of 181 men. ^ r m a L n t ' S nWershy 1 7 als These individual *!" « " 3 S * * * thr Ugh " < ™ » r,\JYy °' ° stees, president, and faculty placed its corporate resources at the disposal of the State and Federa governments for war purposes. The careful attention which has always been given here to military instruction gave the University sdtu ions " Thee " technical l knowledge and research facilities inTh ? h T , 2* ° stitutions. of certain other departments, notably engineering, medicine chemistrv ics, also enabled them to Dlav an important part in the great task of mobilizing the national re sources, whether ,n direct relation to the military Lid naval service in such civilian activities as those of the Food, Fuel, and Railway Administrations, or in the auxiliary services of the Red Cross and the various organizations which were finally associated in the United War Work Council. An adequate record of all these things is not yet possible, but a University Committee is already gathering the materials upon which such a record must be based. war, it was decided to organize a University War Committee for the purpose of correlating more effectively the activities of the University in relation to war service, and the material collected in this volume relates largelv tho not exclusively to the work of that Committee. It includes two reports of the War Committee printed in 1918, together with material from two subsequent reports not previously printed brin* mg the narrative down to the date of the Committee's d i s f i e in June 1917 To these reports are added a number of pamnhleS m n lets issued by the Committee as a part of ts program of r i X P ? P . Some o / these were intended to give u & ^ S S ^ u ^a r ^ r ^ l o on the issues and objects of the war and tho t ^ k i J P ° P 1 J m Conference. Others offered « ^ ^ M t i ^ S ^ d m ± a i s j T e n which the individual citizen m ght coooerate mot- e fae c t l . , *>Y f v the Government in conserving 5„d u d l S thT C n m.i c elyo with res of the country. A few other SnmnhliS ^ 1 . f ? ? ^ces on the War 5 f th relation to this educational program? ever. tthh Xt h e * ° ^ ™ o strictly publications of the War C o m m i t ! y were not offl 8 dV ge m rCSpeCt Ver m o s t o t h e r i t s tru r^rL^dl7ya?S
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