Caption: Commencement - 1922
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\ ma\ S] ftk as t) i * ne h.iv |g .me autl t mil it, the closest possible contact with • h positorica knowli dge and su li sources of proph tic wi : n> We arc honored today by the visit in a 1 dy of the first did v ago. tin moral and i\ rt of the work of a ate ty dirt her f < the y us go by. < For it is because the world believes in the value of such sources of information that the s* have endowed these institutions beyond the dr< mis of a half century ago and will still further endow them in proportion as their present hopes are r< lli/.cd and all "iir eyes are still further opened. ADVISORY RELATIONSHIPS Illinois has led in the highest utilization ot this work ing relationship between the citizens and the u n i v e r s i t . . fir ( in its long standing system of advisory committei tnd later through various temporary Committees and ommissions by whose services the institution seeks to learn as accurately as may be and as tar m advance >v p. sible the probable direction of the development 0 the S t a t e , the const pient tn ds for I iiu .itional servio and incidentally tO interest as main .is ma\ In- I th< thinking citizens of the State in tin m< rn pi ms ( Ideational development. A university ot this kind so uided by mutual < uncil will d v<-lop sane,safe and useful about in pi ti n repi sen itive citizen adopt and promot aeti\ and ai n live measures for its developm it ami upport. It is not .1 question of what the Universit) m ds but what Hi State needs. The Universit>, as an tution i)' notlim It is an oi mism u h , h jcistS i t f,,i it If but foi the Stat, and the State n | | < \ . ; i ,| l t . by w;i of kn wl li and ideals which the icsoui oftln 8
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