UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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FACULTY LIFE

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Baker being its most prominent members. This group was later broken up, most of its members making their residence in one of the towns, and finding friends in their own near vicinity and at their own churches. The citizens of the towns were inclined to rate the faculty men according to their known income, and to look upon them as a worthy but dependent class, unable to make adequate return for social favors and to be treated with a veiled condescension. After 1885 the unsatisfactory nature of this mode of faculty life, with the improvement in street car service and the growth of the University, led to a new building movement near the campus, where students and faculty were in close contact, centers of petty trade were formed, and newcomers settled as a matter of course. In the new community fitter social standards were presently established, based on culture, personal charm, academic distinction, length of service, and to some extent on executive rank. Differences of income were largely ignored, social usages were rather formal but simple and unassuming, and a feeling of democratic comradeship and general good will grew up which made of the "old faculty" a delightful society, remarkably unified and harmonious notwithstanding its diverse origin. In this faculty there was a greater cultural enthusiasm than publications or research would indicate. At the beginning of Peabody's term there were, as before, four colleges—engineering, natural science, agriculture, and literature and science. The college of engineering was divided into.three schools—mechanical engineering, architecture, and civil engineering; while in natural science were the schools of chemistry and natural history, and in literature and science of the ancient and modern languagesj | Three years later, as