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Caption: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914)
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> UN [VERS1 IN OF II l IN IS hool, Normal; from 1883 to iK</) he was Profc or of Public Administration in the University <>i unsyl' nia, an Piiector of the Whan n School of finance and I nomy. FJ m 1S00 to 190a he was Prof( 1 of Public Admini tradon and Director of the University Extension I)h ion of the University of Chicago, lie was President of Northwestern University from ] bruary, [902, to September, 1904, when he resigned to become President of the University of Illinois. President James is the first native of the State of Illinois to be elected President of one of the three great universities of the State—Northwestern, Chicago, and Illinois. He has presided over two of these, and was for six years a professor in the third. H e is thus a Sucker by birth, education and career,—a genuine product of the corn belt itself, of which fact he is naturally proud. So far during President James' administration the University has made material advances, especially along scholarship lines. Many new buildings, also, have been added, and the appropriations for operating expenses have been generously enlarged at each biennium. Salaries of men of professorial rank have been increased fifty per cent., and for this reason it has been possible materially to strengthen the teaching force. Distinguished scholars have been brought to the University from all over the world, and emphasis has been laid upon the importance of the University's going into research and graduate work if it is to take its place among the great universities of the country. The Graduate School has become an actuality, and the Legislature and the people of the State have come to see its importance, and to approve definite appropriations for it support. A separate Graduate School faculty lias been organized, and graduate instruction has been developed ami lengthened. There hav< been < tablished . School ^i Edu» tion, the State Geological Survey, and a School way Engineering and Administration. I he eolleg. f Kail> I itf rature and Arts and Science have been combined, and th standard of effK iency materially raised.
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