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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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CHAPTER V THE FACULTY The first president (or "Recent") of the University was elected March 12, 1807 and entered upon the duties of his office on the first day of the following month.! During the next twelve months three additional members of the faoulty were chosen, by whom, together with the Regent, instruction was given during the first term—extending from March 2, 1868 to June 13, 1868** A year later the Regent reported that the instructional force had been increased to three professors and three assistant professors, representing the departments of History, English, Chemistry, Agriculture, Botany, Mathematics, Bookkeeping and Modern Languages. There were also two non-resident lecturers—on Pomology and on English Literature, respectively,8 For the first twenty years, the maximum number of members of the University faoulty in any one year was thirty-three— in 1878-79. In 1887-88 there were only twenty-nine members, but for the next eight years there was a regular yearly increase and by 1895-6 there were eighty-four. The addition of the College of Medicine in 18974 increased the number of the instructional staff to 170 for the year 1896-7. For the next six years there was again a steady annual increase, and by the year 1903-4 the number had reached 851. During the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920 the number of members of the faculty rose from 851 to 943. This was an increase of 592, or 168 per cent. In the following table the size of the faculty is given for each year since the opening of the University. Members of the library staff are included in the enumeration, but clerks, stenog^ raphers and miscellaneous employees of the University are not included. 'Sept, Univ. of 111., 1868, pp* 18. 81 •Ibid, pp. 87, 94 *Kopt., UniT. of 111., 1869, p. 68 •111. Soli. Kept,, 1910-12, p. 480 128
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