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The Colleges and Schools

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education. The Avon library, comprising 5,000 volumes and 10,000 pamphlets, and especially rich in materials concerning the development of education in Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, was purchased upon his recommendation. He also began the development of a textbook library and an educational museum. Dr. Lotus Delta Coffman served as lecturer in the School for the year 1911-12, and as professor of education from 1912 to 1915. In the latter year he resigned to become Dean of the College of Education of the University of Minnesota. In 1913 Dr. Charles Hughes Johnston, Dean of The School of Education of the University of Kansas, accepted a position as professor of secondary education at the University of Illinois. At the end of three years of distinguished service in this capacity, Professor Johnston met his death in an automobile accident in September, 1917. Upon the resignation of Professor Coffman in 1915, Professor Joseph Clifton Brown was appointed principal of the training school, and placed in charge of the work in administration and supervision until the training school should be opened. He resigned his position at the University of Illinois, however, after one year of service, in order to become President of the State Normal School at St. Cloud, Minnesota. In 1914 Dr. Guy Montrose Whipple was made associate professor of education and a year later was promoted to a professorship. His especial field at the University of Illinois has been that of educational psychology, including the closely related fields of mental tests, school hygiene and auxiliary education. In 1914-15 he established the laboratory of educational psychology. Dr. Whipple was granted leave of absence in June 1917, for the first semester of 1917-18 to enable him to carry on certain investigations at Pittsburgh in connection with the development of psychological tests. Dr. David Spence Hill, formerly director of the Newcomb School of Education and of the department of educational research in the public school system of New Orleans, was appointed at this time as acting professor of education for the first semester of 1917-18.