Caption: Booklet - Installation of UI President (1931)
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3 full the possibilities ol bv attempting to take i ther species, b u t by atf m • TheUni\ asauniv monwea life. to whi< s i t y o f Illinois as it d e v e l o p i m u s t , ! _ . p in those ways and tin ugl i tion re as unfold in of its pos lbilitie t y , b u t a s a university maintain char f varied and rich i oun and of aspirin J abo' me* thJAni I ongs| be] I be civil "A It must, in the first place, be education which has bee m rec philosophy of tion One of th ly evident in state and lift facts of our national life is the sixfold incr ase, in th and women o l so % years, of the proportion of young I their education college a edui Thi percentage h tutions above high pur i to more than eigl from less than thre 1929. The current is too strong to be stemmed by a n \ | ir. rary depression, or by any criticism ol the crowd! s Unless there shall be some mark gof u: r> and relatively permanent ch in American standard of living, 1 go i Almost unconsciouslv we hav tha the p f formal education up to the at. o l ical maturity has become the normal and accepte tor affairs. Never before in the world has this been \\ ib to ( s for the average family. In times of depression it is or on of the last opportunities to be surrendered. Those o\ 1 bv who have faith in the future of America mm look t ward, I firmlv believe, to an even wi,],.r c,-,>,,l ^ , mi philosophy and its consequences. It will not be, as II It primarily in terms of eparation thatl this philosophy will manifest itself. It is a short i<ihl and wholly partial view of higher educat terms of It must be m d that a new and confused, and ir r period of prcpf men and women f happiness, and of usefulness. It b ('•1 con Jti un 1 onb est
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