Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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230 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois Another important development in the School of Education has been the assumption and prosecution of the work of the University Committee on Appointment of Teachers. This Com* mittee "recommends qualified graduates of the University for positions as teachers or supervisors in public schools, colleges and technical schools in response to requests from the school authorities.28 Since 1914, the completion of certain specified courses in education, amounting to a total of seven hours, has been required of all students who desire to obtain upon their graduation the recommendation of the Committee on Appointments. This is a smaller number of hours of professional work than is required at most state universities, but it has been the policy of this College not to stress heavily the strictly professional work, but rather to insist that the prospective teacher should have first of all a solid basis in academic scholarship. BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH By authority of the Board of Trustees the Bureau of Educational Research was organized in 1918, and Dr. Burdette R. Buckingham was appointed Director and Professor of Education.29 The purpose of this Bureau is "investigating the problems of teaching and school administration, collecting information concerning the best educational practises of this and other countries, and placing the results obtained before the schools of this state.'' 10. THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Perhaps no department of the University of Illinois has had so varied an experience during the past twelve years as the College of Medicine.80 The University of Illinois did not organize a medical school at the beginning of its work in 1868. This was a great mis"Univ. of HI. Annual Register, 1917-18, p. 190 "Minutes, Board of Trustees, 1916-18, p. 759 *The following paragraphs are taken for the most part from a Memorandum and a History of the College of Medicine prepared by the President of the University in 1912
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