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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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214 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois been indicated,8 the College has co-operated actively since 1914 with the Federal Government in the extension work provided for by the Smith-Lever Act of that year. There has recently been established also a system of extension schools in various parts of the state. A complete system of student advisers for the upperclassmen has been established, as also a special committee to deal with the freshman class, shaping it into genuine university material. In order to assist in the social improvement of country life conditions, a community adviser has devoted his time since 1914 to the study of the problems of country life, and to the development of methods for dealing with them. Two representatives are regularly sent to each of the hundred county institutes held annually, and technical information arising out of the investigative work carried on at the Station and College is thus brought directly to the farmers of the State. There is no doubt that the latter have within the past sixteen years developed a new attitude toward agriculture, a new knowledge of its requirements and a new consciousness of their opportunities and their responsibilities. Of the many problems upon which untiring study has been devoted during the recent period, probably none is of greater importance to the people of Illinois than the determination of the methods by which the various soils of the state might be treated in order that they might not only produce the largest possible crops, but also maintain their fertility from year to year and even become more productive. This has involved the inauguration of a complete soil survey of the state, including the chemical analysis of all the soils. As a result of this investigation, knowledge has been acquired that will enable the farmers of Illinois to arrest the gradual decline in the fertility of the soil, which was becoming more and more evident, and to restore those elements which insure the highest productivity. 5. THE COLLEGE OP COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION9 The movement for higher commercial education in the United States, began about 1899, a year after the establishment of'the •Cf. Chapter I °Summary of a special report by N. A. Weston, Acting Dean
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