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Caption: Booklet - Citizenship at UI (1929)
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new i immerce building, during the ten minute interval betw n cla and you do indeed see not only the great t sight which this campus provide but also one of the great* t sights which the empire oi the Mississippi valley provides. •• There they • ." mused David Kinley again, "all the hop' I rs i the future marching by." " Illinois' Most Influential Man 1 s IK spoke, there was elation in his tone there was soliciin his eyes, lie is 67 years old. As an assistant professoi and professor of economics, as dean of the college of l i t e r a t u r e and arts, as acting president of the university for a year, and president for nine years he has jjiven 36 years of his life to this school. His presidency has marked the p e r i o d of its reatest growth and its weighti< t problems. He comprehends its perils, its problems and its opportunities as no o t h e r man does. Estimating him by the effect w h i c h his ideas a n d his policies have had upon teachers and s t u d e n t s for 36 years he may reasonably be acclaimed as the most RESEARCH HOSPITAL* influential man in Illin o i s a n d one of t h e ( living American administrators. David Kinley's Problems And he knows that, with a student body of more than 12,000 [welling in the twin riti< of I rbana and Champaign, the uni \. in < numeri ill) and temperamentally—a handful to deal • T h e i 11' <>f Med ( oil I Dcntiiti nd I oi Pharmacy. ai MO
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