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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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202 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois factors which promote general culture in college life. The appointment of a full-time Curator of the Museum of Natural History is significant of further growth in service. Important progress was made during the years from 1904 to 1920 in the construction of buildings for this division of the University. The erection of Lincoln Hall, the Vivarium, the Botany Greenhouse and the additions to the Natural History Building and the Chemistry Laboratory, served to relieve conditions which were fast becoming insanitary through overcrowding, and gave opportunity both for the expansion of the literary departments and for the more complete utilization of the scientific laboratories and equipment. The conduct of the Journal of English and Germanic Philology; the editing of the Yearbook of the German American Historical Society of Illinois, the Illinois Historical Collections, the Mississippi Valley Historical Review and the Journal of the American Chemical Society; assistance rendered the State Tax Commission, the State Efficiency Commission and other state bodies, are some of the many activities outside the regular field of University work which have been carried on by members of this college during a part of the last sixteen years in the interest of productive scholarship or of expert service to the State. FROM 1913 TO 1920 4 As previously mentioned the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences was created by the union of the College of Literature and Arts and the College of Science. The union became effective on the first of July, 1913 and the new College therefore completed the first five years of its existence with the end of the last fiscal year. The requirements for admission and for a degree in the two colleges differed considerably and the reorganization of curriculum and procedure has been a slow and sometimes difficult process, but at the end of seven years, the complete unification of the College has been accomplished. The new curriculum for the A. B. degree was worked out by the faculty of the College and finally approved by the Board 4 A special statement by Dean K. 0. Babcock
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