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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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228 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois In March 1917 the Board of Trustees authorized the appointment of Dr. Werrett Wallace Charters, then professor of the theory of teaching and dean of the faculty of education of the University of Missouri, to be professor of education at the University of Illinois from the beginning of the academic year 1917-18. On June 1, 1918, the Board of Trustees voted to erect the School of Education into a separate College of Education. Dr. Charters was appointed Dean, but he resigned this position to accept a research appointment at Carnegie Institute of Technology. On June 21, 1919, Dr. Charles Ernest Chadsey, then Superintendent of Schools in the City of Chicago, was appointed Dean of the College of Education. He entered on his duties as Dean in September, 1919, but resigned on November 17, to resume his duties as Superintendent of Schools, on the receipt of notice that a suit to compel the city authorities to permit him to exercise the duties of the office had been decided in his favor. On November 26, he returned to the University and withdrew his resignation. The chief emphasis during the fourteen years since the organization of the School of Education has been upon the advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. These have been increased and strengthened, and have attracted an increasing number of graduate students. There were only three graduate students majoring in education in 1903-04, none in 1907-08 and only two in 1908-09. But this number was increased to 11 in 1909-10, and the numbers since that date have been successively 15, 18, 24, 35, 35, 27, 25, 22, 19, and 20. In the summer sessions of 1916,1917, 1918, and 1919, there were 47, 43, 35, and 35 graduate students enrolled, respectively, who were majoring in Education. The first doctor's degrees in Education were conferred in 1915, on two candidates. The following table indicates the growth of class registrations in the School (and College) of Education since its organization :
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