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Pa [TY < A i NDAR Urbana- Chicago Under, Lh y< Champaign Graduate » )iV.

1 st :est or (1955) C1955) Sept.. 12 -17 Sept. 7-14 Sept.19 Sept. 19

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Freshman Jeek 6 Registration Classes begin

Fall quarter (1955)

Classes begin Sept.26 Thanksgiving Nov.24

Quarter ends Jec.17 Winter quarter (1956) Classes begin Jan.3 Quarter ends Mar.24 Sprinq Quarter Classes begin Medicine, 3,4.Mar.26 Classes begin all others Apr.2 i.iemorial Day Lay 30 Commencement June 15 Quarter ends June 15 Summer Ouarter (1956) Classes begin June 25 Independence day holiday July 4 Labor Day....Sept.3 Quarter ends Sept.15

Thanksgiving vacation

Christmas va cat ion Semester

examinations 2nd semester

Nov. 23-28

Dec.21Jan. 3

Jan.20-28 (1956)

Nov.23-28 Dec,16Jan.3

Jan.20-28 (1956) Feb.9-11 Feb.13

Registration

Feb.6-8

Classes begin Feb.9 Easter Mar.29vacation Apr. 4 Honors Day May.4 Memorial Day May 30 Semester Hay 31examinations June 8 Commencement June 16 Summer Session (1956) Registration June 18 Classes begin June 19 Independence day..July 4 Session exams aug. 10-11

Mar.29Apr.4 Apr.27 May 30 June 4-12 (1956) June 22-23 June 25 July 4 Aug.17-18

THE UNIVERSITY grew out of a demand of the people that higher education be available to more than a favored few. In 1862 abraham Lincoln signed the "Land Grant College Act" providing for establishment of such colleges. Illinois opened i..ar.2t 1868, with three faculty members and . 0 students in a second-hand building. To the original campus at " Urbana-Champaign was added in 1896 the first of the Chicago Professional Units in the health sciences. Undergraduate Divisions were established in 1946 at Chicago and Galesburg, with that at Galesburg closing in 1949 when need for it had passed. However, much as the University has grown in size, it has grown more in concept and activities. The kind of university it is today was unknown in 1868. The three-fold pattern of education, research, and service is a new and American contribution to the idea of a university. Today Illinois offers training in almost very field of human interest and activity; its great laboratories nd scholars constantly extend the bounds of human knowledge; through publications, radio, extension and service activities it takes information to the people. And from the laboratories and other activities, vitalizing information and inspiration flow back to the classes. The University is internationally known, Traceable returns from its research spay every year to the people of Illinois more than the cost of building and operating the University since it o l e in 1068. For some of the things in which it has been tirst, id sec the next page; in others it has been a moving for nd in mny nore far ahead of the procession.

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