UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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246 TJNIVEESITY AFTER IT POUND ITSELF Practically all the extension work in engineering dates from the second year of the administration, when the experiment station was reorganized and received its first direct grant of $10,000. In 1910 the college advertised its acquisition of a drop testing machine and brake shoe testing machine for free use by the railways. A year later liberal provision was made for the Miners' and Mechanics' Institutes, to promote the technical efficiency of mine managers and workers by bulletins, lectures, correspondence work, and extension classes. But in this college extension work has never been prominent. In science the State Geological Survey was authorized by the Legislature the same year that Dr. James came, under a director who had made a specialty of economic geology, and who, in cooperation with the chemistry and ceramics faculties, soon after began to study the value of Illinois clays for bricks, tile, and pottery. The usefulness of the Water Survey was greatly extended by the passage of a bill authorizing the appointment of field agents to visit watersheds and municipal reservoirs. As for the college of liberal arts, the economics, history, and political science faculties have all found means of serving the State, while in 1915 the courses in business offered a short session "designed to meet the needs of both employer and employee," with instruction in a dozen business fields. The education department now has two oflScers inspecting high schools, of which not far from 500 have been fully or partially accredited, and in other ways is directly serving the people. The summer school may be regarded as virtually an extension department, for the majority who attend are high school teachers. Dean Clark, the director, reported in 1906 that more than three-fourths the regis-