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THE UNIVERSITY AND STATE

ixom Northwestern and Chicago Universities, to prepare material of use to the State if it called a constitutional convention. Prof. Pairlie and Prof. Garner have established an office of municipal research. Dean Kinley has served as a member of the Industrial Insurance Commission and the State Tax Commission. "Wilhelm Miller, while head of the landscape gardening courses, converted hundreds of farmers to a conscious effort at the beautification of their holdings—and beautification not with foreign trees and bushes but with those indigenous to Illinois and suitable to the horizontal lines of the prairie. The President of the University himself, besides serving on various temporary committees, was for fifteen years the president of the Illinois State Historical Library Board, under whose direction the development of the work in State history received its initial impetus. He was also for seven years the president of the State Highway Commission, which began the recent work of modern highway improvement and road building. As secretary and executive officer of the State Tax Commission, he guided the thorough investigation into the tax system of the State which resulted in the proposal of various reforms, some of which were adopted by the Legislature. Above all, various important conferences on public questions have been*held at the University in recent years. Thus in 1913 the Commerce Building was dedicated with a conference on business progress attended by many business men; and a year later a conference on life insurance and its educational relations was held on the occasion of the presentation of the portrait of an insurance leader. At the installation of Dean Goss in 1908 a number of men eminent in engineering fields appeared, and joined in a virtual conference on graduate research in engineer-