UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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VI THE UNIVERSITY AFTER IT FOUND ITSELF

Lines of University Development. Growing Appropriations and the Mill Tax. Doubling of the Number of Buildings. Special Expansion in Agriculture and Engineering. Lincoln Ball and Graduate Work. The Courses in Business Administration. Unification of Science and Liberal Arts. The College of Medicine Gains Its Feet. The University Reaches State Leadership.

THE keynote of Draper's administration had been material growth according to a policy which made for sure and exact discipline upon a plane set none too high. That of Dr. James's administration was to be material growth npon a policy making for the imbuing of the University with advancing intellectual ideals. His part in the growth of the University was to be as prominent as had been his predecessor's, for his personality from the outset impressed itself upon every part of the institution. The new President was not yet fifty, but with a long record of administrative work in education. In point of scholarly equipment, he was much better prepared than any previous head. He had been born in Jacksonville at the time Turner was busiest there with his propaganda. He was educated at the State Normal School, at Northwestern, at Harvard, and at Halle, where he received his doctorate in 1877. After a period in normal school work in Illinois, he became professor of public administration at the University of Pennsylvania, remaining there twelve years, organizing the graduate instruction, and for a time directing the Wharton School of Finance. I k e left in 1896 to become professor at the University of Chicago and director of

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