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Caption: Booklet - UI Response to WWI (1917)
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Tiv\ ms to this the University authorities fore aw the paramount importance of Aeronautics and appointed a prof ive instruction to the students in this wholly new line of ie i IFFER i >F RES< )URCES. Early in February when i eemed inevitable that the United States would be drawn into th President Edmund J. James of the University -nt the followii elegram : To I lis Excellency 1 [onorable Frank ( ). I ,owden Governor (^\ the State of tllinois "In the name of the trustees and faculty of the University of Illinois. I beg to tender to you, and through y < to the President of the United State.-, in case of war. th facilities of the scientific and technical laboratories of th University of Illinois, as an aid in solving such problem- as the federal government may assign to us." EDMUND J. JAMES. H \HH \t KS I oi 11 i; W I A T O •<—1 M < \ lil u DIN
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