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Caption: Booklet - Status of University
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111! I MVKRSITV OF ILLINOIS What is the University of Illinois? Just what does it do': How big is it? How nany buildings has it? How large is its facult] Tin e questions are frequently put, no >nly by p •pie outside of the State, but b\ lllinoisans. It is noi unusual for a stranger when he first comes to the University, to xclaim in surprise, "1 had no idea that Illinois was such an institution. I looked for a college with two or three buildings." The truth is that only a very small percent; e of the people of Illinois know their University. It is not surprising, therefore, that they wonder at the amount of appropriations asked for. A Public Service as well as a Teaching Institution Many people think of the University as a t iching institution only, a kind of enlarged high school. This is a mistake. A university, particularly a state university, is o much more than this that its teaching, in the ordinary sense of the term, represents but a fraction of its service and expense. A university is, in fact, a clearing hou • for knowledge both old and new, ; forum for the discussion of present day problems, and an organization for the soluion of these problems and for the discussion of now truth. The University of Illinois perforins four di inct functions, all expensive: 1. T< ihing the undergraduate body of tu< . not in set courses most easily tught, but in those which best meet their nrequiring, of < urse, constant rovii o n. 2. Training new faculty and executivi IF: a university is not only a repository .f know] e and an agency < f discover) > bl i training place for its own w rkers. '] i hers and i h men cannot be bough! HI unnmdities. The only pla< 1 art' t hose one th < must U whei 11 are produ ,niv<T.itn . thai is t<> manufu lured throu i di the in.titution. 3 machinery of
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