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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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GENERAL PUBLIC SERVICE 343 most important undertaking of the Survey has been the compilation of a five-volume history of the State, under the editorship of Prof. Alvord, as a memorial to mark the centenary (1918) of admission to Statehood. Funds have been voted by the Legislature, and the work is to be published by the Illinois Centennial Commission, created by it. The volume on Illinois as province and territory has been assigned to Prof. Alvord, that on the frontier State, to 1848, to Dr. Pease, that on the transitional era of the Civil War to Dr. Arthur Cole; that on the period of industrial development, from 1870 to 1893, to Prof. Bogart and Dr. Pease; and the final one on the modern commonwealth to Prof. Bogart and Prof. J. M. Mathews. The Survey and the workers on the centennial history, laboring winter and summer, employ a staff of twelve graduate assistants and a large office force; they have made a thorough search for all useful materials in newspaper files, in county archives, in local libraries, in private collections, have photographed thousands of documents in Washington, and have hired expert workers in foreign capitals. All these materials are being handled in such manner that the completion of the centennial history will leave the University with the most valuable set of local records in the West. There remain to be mentioned a large number of miscellaneous services to the State by University departments and officers. g^For two years Dean Goss was employed in Chicago by a committee of the Association of Commerce to direct investigative work upon smoke abatement and the electrification of the terminals. At the* same time, Prof. Fairlie was serving as direetgtyof a legislative committee on economy and efficiency fi^3i© State government. In 1914 President James appointed two representatives to a committee, which included men
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