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Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois

Year 1912-13 1913-14 1914-15 1915-16 1916-17 1917-18 1918-19 1919-20 Men 4061 4347 4659 4980 5187 3909 5372 6947 Women 1026 1192 1297 1467 1641 1681 1785 2261 Total 5087 5539 5956 6437 6828 5590 7157 9208

Two principal causes have been responsible for the large increase in enrolment during the past twenty years. These are, first, the natural growth of the departments already in existence, as the facilities of the University for offering a high grade of instruction have become better known, and as the number and quality of the high schools of the state advanced; and in the second place, the acquisition of additional colleges and schools and the organization of new departments by the University. Thus, in May, 1896, the Chicago College of Pharmacy, founded in 1859, became the School of Pharmacy of the University of Illinois.3 In 1897 arrangements were concluded for the affiliation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago with the University, and the former institution became known as the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois.4 I n 1901 the property and good will of the Illinois School of Dentistry in Chicago were transferred to the College of Medicine and a School of Dentistry was organized by the University as a department of the College of Medicine.6 In 1905 the School of Dentistry became a separate college. The Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry were discontinued on June 30, 1912, but were reopened in 1913 in February and October respectively. In 1897 the School of Library Economy which had been established in 1893 at the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago was transferred to the University and the Library School of the University was opened.6 The first summer session of the University

Rept., Univ. of HI., 1896, p. 240 Bept., Univ. of III., 1898, p. 74; 1900, p. 247 •Bept, Univ. of HI., 1902, pp. 54-56 •Kept., Univ. of HI., 1898, pp. I l l , 192; Univ. of 111. Bui. Vol. I, No. 4 Oct. 18, 1003, p. 3.

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