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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS 271 for much original investigation. No student with a bent for inquiry into certain technical or scientific fields could go to a better place, though thus far the benefits of the two stations have been rather to faculty than to postgraduates. The staffs are largely made.up of regular faculty members, and men who might never have thought of advanced investigation have produced striking results in experiments on machinery, fuels, building materials, soils, and in genetics. The great majority of the bulletins are of faculty authorship. The effect of the stations on the liberal arts colleges has been traceable. They gave the spirit of research there a competitive vitality the moment the graduate school was fully established, and they gave it for a time a utilitarian direction. The University Studies abound in titles in the history and economic and social life of the West, and especially of Illinois. But the tendency is to greater breadth in research. In 1909 the University began printing a list of the faculty publications of the year, and this has not only lengthened but grown in scope. In 1914-15 this list comprised thirty-three large octavo pages of titles of books and articles, of which only a fraction specifically concerned Illinois, many even of the agricultural publications having a wider application. The faculty also undertakes a greater variety of ventures in editing. Prof. Noyes is editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society; Prof. Alvord of the Mississippi Historical Review; Prof. Bentley of the Psychological Index; Prof. Bagley was founder of the Journal of Educational Psychology, in the editing of which he continues to assist; Professors Goebel, H. S. V. Jones, and Flom edit the Journal of English and Germanic Philology; and Prof. Ward is editor of the Journal of
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