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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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146 Sixteen Tears at tlie University of Illinois instructor, assistant professor, and professor in the University since 1881. His continuous service has extended over thirtysix years." 18 Today the Department of Ceramic Engineering stands as a monument to the faithful and devoted services of this man, for he, more than any one else, was responsible for initiating and establishing upon a firm foundation the work of this department. I N THE MATTER OF QUALITY No other feature of the equipment of a university will so largely determine its strength as will the men who are charged with the direct conduct of its various activities. Abundance of land, numerous and spacious buildings, well equipped laboratories and libraries and large revenues will not singly or all combined insure for a university either strength or progress. In the final analysis it is the personnel of the faculty that will chiefly determine the value of the university to the commonwealth and its rank among its sister institutions of learning. The increase in the number of the instructional and administrative staff of the University during the past twelve years has been a matter of necessity, in response to a steadily increasing enrolment of students. An increase in the actual strength of the faculty, from the standpoint of scholarship and teaching ability, could, however, come only as a result of the exercise of the greatest care in the selection of individual instructors. Throughout the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920, whether a candidate was to occupy an important or a minor position, thorough consideration has been given to his scholarship, his ability to impart information and to inspire active efforts on the part of his students, his personal character and his own activity as a thinker and a producer of that which would add to the world's store of knowledge. One college of the University after another has been thus strengthened, until at the present time there is probably no department in which the work done is not of a distinctly high grade and no department in which a student may not come under the instruction of one or more of the country's leading scholars in that field of study. "Minutes of Bd. of Trustees, Univ. of HL, July 17, 1917, p. 414
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