UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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234 UNIVERSITY AFTER IT FOUND ITSELF from the. mill tax, was set aside for fellowships and scholarships, and the remainder for research and the school's publications. The chief of these were the UniversityStudies, which had been commenced under Draper, and the Journal of English and Germanic Philology, founded by Dr. Karsten and taken over at his death under the joint editorship of the two departments. The latter was a creditable if highly specialized periodical, and the Studies, which were used by the faculty as well as graduate students for publication, were well edited. Money was also spent for the Illinois Historical Survey. Strong efforts were made to bring the school up to Eastern standards, and the University quickly began to succeed. No one was allowed to offer graduate work who had not fully demonstrated his ability in research; candidates for the doctorate were required to print their theses; and strict methods of examination were devised, with interdepartmental representation at each oral hearing. The challenging of candidates in the German department by members of the English faculty at one time bred bad feeling. From the outset candidates for masters' degrees had to offer theses. The school at first had many students in absentia, but their numbers were reduced. Then came the transfer of advanced work in liberal arts to Lincoln Hall, with its admirable seminars, and the consequent energizing of scholarly work; by 1915-16 there were nearly 550 students enrolled. It is again to Dean Kinley's enterprise as regards elements of growth and expansion, and his conservatism in all that touches the standards of the school, that graduate work owes most. The long neglect the library had suffered furnished one of the chief difficulties against which advanced work had to struggle. The University labored hard to

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