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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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272 ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY Parasitology; while the roster of assistant editorships is of course long. For the first thirty years of the University but one or two faculty members had any time for research; now even the most overworked departmental head is guaranteed some leisure. A half dozen of the standard treatises in engineering, as many more in agriculture, and works of reputation in sociology, political science, economics, pedagogy, and pure science have been brought out by University men in the last decade. Faculty life in Urbana is quite free from the snobbish atmosphere that readers of Dorothy Canfield's stories might think characteristic of the academic settlement in a small-town environment. For the simple reason that they cannot have any fellowship except within the University, the upper faculty grades do not try to shut themselves off from the subordinate. There is no temptation, as in a large city, for deans or departmental heads to consort only with equals in rank, and fill up a limited acquaintance by friendship with a certain set of business, political, or social figures downtown. There is also little of the snobbery that dictates that young professors shall spend more than their salary justifies in a squirrel cage effort to seem richer than they are. The faculty spirit retains the Western democracy with which it was imbued under Gregory and Peabody, and newcomers must adapt themselves to it or suffer. The faculty ball games, the faculty dances, the informal faculty Greek or scientific reading circles, know no artificial lines. The only sneers are at men like the foreign professor who was reputed to exclude all men under the rank of assistant professor from his house lest his marriageable daughters take a fancy to
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