Caption: Booklet - One Hundred Million (Impact of UI) (1931)
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The Value of Research at the University of Illinois That the University oi Illinois teaches some 15,000 students mo t ev< yone knows, but that it spends a large portion of its money and energy in research to bring forth new facts which enrich tin* life t " the S t a t e and Nation is realized by only a small portion. I ew i ally c o m p r e h e n d the t r e m e n d o u s value of these researches. It is impossible in most instances to interpret in dollars and its the value oi the University's research contributions. However, ver) little figuring, and less imagination, is needed to d e m o n s t r a t e that man; millions oi dollars are annually given hack to the State in the form oi r e t u r n s on its investment in this institution. Indeed one friend of the University said recently that the value oi these discoveries "probibly a p p r o x i m a t e s a h u n d r e d million dollars a year— certainly m a n ) times the amount the State a p p r o p r i a t e s for all purposes—teaching research, and building." A prominent industrialist spoke i)i one research project in engieering which meant "ten millions of dollars annually in the Chicago rea alone." and one agricultural project "is w o r t h t w e n t y - n i n e mil1: ns a n n u a l l y . " T h e U n i v e r s i t y ' s research, which covers practically the whole field of h u m a n endeavor, has produced results which touch the lives of lmost every person, although usually not realized by them. In en - n ing th< hievements have been incorporated in building proje s . man) lines, in railroad operation ami m a i n t e n a n c e , in heating our h i a; I in many other ways. In agriculture hundreds oi pi je s have ttribul 1 soil and crop improvements, and have affected ever) pi • agricultural life in the interest of more pi fitabh tnd I living lditioi on the farm. When thousands of pa< . of scientific data proved facts ha\ 1 n printed in official publications as a result o\ the Univei t\ tigat >nal work, it impo iiblc to set down in a tew p.-, an |uate tatemcnl oi what the Universit) has accomplished in \^ 1 nd what it is doiiij today, Several hundi I pa - i such trial is print* I i h yeai and each publication relate i deli • rmtribul n to the y in ral \\ ire ol tin State and Nation, IS I
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