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Caption: Booklet - One Hundred Million (Impact of UI) (1931)
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c ie& UO Foreword LO There has been a good deal of discussion in i lit years of the large amounts of money it costs to support colleges, university and other institutions of higher education. This is especially so in th< i ! i of publicly supported institutions and particularly in times of economic depression when officialdom feels the necessity of curtailing, o far ; possible, unnecessary expenses of government in order to reduce th< burden of taxation. It is. therefore, appropriate at such a time as this for public bodies to give the people information about activities they ire called upon to support. Few people who have had the opportunity of a higher education question the social and economic value of universities and colleges; a great man}', not so fortunate themselves, appreciate the importance to society as a whole of maintaining these institutions. But there is ; vast number of people who have had no direct contact with colleges and universities either themselves, or through their children, and who naturally may not understand the indirect value to them of the work which these institutions are doing. ''What does the University of Illinois do for me that I should be called on to support it?", such a citizen of Illinois may ask himself. Ih may know that his State University is educating each year thousands of young men and women to prepare them for the various walks oi life tnd who go back to their communities better and more useful citizens because of their training and experiences here. I 1c may not question the importance and value of giving the young people of the State an opportunity to cure a college education because, after all. he realizes tl t the cost of i lucating them is simply a good investment on the part of the State and local community in their future citizenship, Bui what imn liate benefits does he himself derive from the University i Illinois aside from die satisfaction of Supporting an institution hich giv< his neighbor's children a higher education that they maj 1 bet : and more useful liv< 'lb1 er is simply tin i through its scientific investi ;\tions it red facts and prim iples which are worth millions ^\ doll.us ially to agi nihil- and the industry t > \\ nothing of then \ < elfarC in nnal. in i human The pn:p< « oi tin booklet, then, is to give the public • t| p I returns which their State Univci ityisgivin mc idea them. It
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