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HISTOKICAL SKETCH

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others have completed the first year's work. About four hundred are now engaged in library work. Although for many years the University of Illinois has offered advanced students facilities for study and research in various lines, graduate work was undertaken under the name of the Graduate School for the first time in 1892. In 1894 the administration of the school was vested in the Council of Administration, and the vice-president of the University became dean of the school. In 1906 the Graduate School was organized as a separate faculty, consisting of a dean and members of the University faculty assigned to this duty by the President. No means of support were provided, however, separate from those provided for undergraduate work. In the winter of 1906-07 the Forty-fifth General Assembly of the State passed an act appropriating $50,000 per year for the support of a Graduate School of Fine Arts and Sciences in the State University. This is the first time in history when a state legislature has made a specified appropriation for such a purpose, and the act is noteworthy as committing a democratic government definitely to the promotion of advanced scholarship and research in lines which are not primarily practical. This appropriation has been continued by succeeding legislatures, and has enabled the University to carry on valuable investigations for the state and promote the world's knowledges thereby bettering the quality of instruction and establishing the reputation of the University in the world of scholarship. 1 One of the strongest evidences of educational progress of any university lies in the increased estimation in which she is held by her sister institutions throughout the country. Dean Kinley, in writing of this, said, ' ' Our admission to the Association of American Universities and the consequent recognition of our graduate work by foreign universities, expressions of opinion in the newspapers and magazines and personally by distinguished educators, are all cumulative evidence that we have advanced to a higher educational plane in the opinion of those most able to judge. At the present time the School of Pharmacy is the only department of the University which does not require full standard high school preparation for admission to the University. After September 1, 1916, by action of the Board of Trustees, the College of Pharmacy will require the usual fifteen high school units. 3 With the increased appropriations and the increased attendance has also come a material strengthening of the teaching force. Salaries of men of professional rank

1 Alumni Quarterly, Vol. I l l , No. 3, July, 1909, Progress of tho Univ. in Five Years by David Kinley. 2

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