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The number of students in the University is 841. The faculty consists of eighty-one instructors. There arc sixteen buildings upon the University Campus. The amount of ground occupied by the University Campus is 210 acres. There are three literary societies, two for men and one for women, in the University. There are ten fraternities in the University, two of which are women's. There are thirty student organizations in the University. Since the organization of the University it has had four presidents or regents. There are 20,600 volumes in the general library. The number of periodicals in the library is 190. The issue of the Illini, the weekly college paper, is 1,000 copies.

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The first person to sign the entrance papers to the University was James Newton Matthews, of the Class of'72. He graduated with the degree of B. L. At present he is a physician at Mason, 111. The first two women to graduate were Mrs. A. H. Bryan (nee Miss Alice Cheever), of Champaign, and Mrs. H. S. Reynolds (nee Miss Frances Adelia Potter.) The number of former students who afterwards became instructors in t h e University is 66. There are now 44 former students connected with the University, 6 of whom are professors, 1 associate professor and 6 assistant professors. The professors, in the order of their appointment: N. C. Ricker, M. Arch., Dean College Eng.; J. O. Baker, C. E.; C. W. Rolfe, M. S.; A. N. Talbot, C. E . ; A. W. Palmer, Sc. D.; S. W. Parr, M. S. The associate professor is G. W. Myers. (Now on leave.) The first books purchased by the library were a set of Daniel Webster's works, in six volumes.

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