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352 History University of Illinois In 1873 daring the absence of Gregory, Shattuck was for six months acting regent of the university, and about this time he was appointed business manager of the institution, a position which he held until 1905 when the work remained essentially the same but the title was changed to comptroller. It was in the management of the university's financial affairs that Shattuck made his unique contribution to the institution. He had a real genius for financiering; genuine insight into the baffling problems of when to spend and when to withhold. However warmly his sympathies might be aroused, however ardently he might desire certain improvements, he always kept a little corner of himself cool to think with just before letting go of the money. Undoubtedly it was due to this that during the more than forty years of his administration of funds the university was never called upon to make explanation of unhappy financial complications in his accounts. In 1912, after forty-four years of service he retired as professor emeritus, bearing "his honors thick upon him.'' STILLMAN WILLIAMS ROBINSON Stillman Williams Robinson was professor of mechanical engineering and physics, 1870-1878, and became dean of the college in the latter year, but resumed his old place in 1879 and remained until 1882. Professor Robinson took his C. E. from the University of Michigan in 1863; and received his D. Sc. from Ohio State in 1896. He died in 1910, at which time he was professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Ohio State University. He was born in 1838 at South Reading, Vt, and received his preparatory education in Springfield, Vt., and Ann Arbor, Mich. He held various faculty positions in the university of Michigan before coming to Illinois. Besides the accomplishment of his faculty duties here and later at Ohio State University, he found time to act as consulting engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad and for the Lick Telescope and Mountings Co. His patented inventions numbered about forty, among which was the first thermometer graduating machine to be introduced. He was the author of many books and pamphlets, and a member of several organizations for engineers and scientists. B i
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