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Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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THK I NIVKHSITV OF ILLINOIS 21 were matriculated students without conditions in their tudies, the average standing of all the men being above 89. Practically all of them graduated last year, or will this. Yet when I was on my vacation iii the east la-t summer the college hoys would timidly lead up to th< baseball question, and with a little encouragement they would brace up and ask whether " the men in that ba ball team were truly students of the University?" W h a t could possibly load them to think of such a thin ? The gymnasium floor upstairs is the full size of the building, and the running track suspended above it covers a mile in thirteen laps. From these north windows we u get a line view of Illinois F i e l d . " It covers about 12 acres. The elliptical cinder track covers one-third of a mile, and the straight-away is one-eighth of a mile. It makes an excellent place for the " d i a m o n d " and the " g r i d i r o n " and for military reviews. Here many a contest develops genuine skill and heroism and makes Illinois blood tingle to the very tips of the fingers. •>LLEGE OF MEDICINE, ETC. We have now finished our tour f buildings and grounds, so far as they are associated with the seat of tin University, but I must say a word of the important departments in Chicago. In 1896 the Old Chicago College of Pharmacy, founded in 1869, and occupying the building at 465 State street, was absorbed by the University. In 181)7 the College of Physicians and Surgeons became the College of Medicine of* the University, and in L901 a School of Dentistry was organized in connection with that College. The Schools of Medicine and Dentistry occupy most commodious buildings opposite the Cook County Hoi ital, and are of first prominence in the city. Our departments in Chicago are wholly self-supporting, and have mon than a thousand students. YOUNO MKN AND WOMI \ We have now seen the University plant, bul ground and mason work are Dot the objects of first interest hero. &
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