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ttao^hout the State were enrolled, and nearly 8.000 more were enrolled in norT-crodit correspondence, conference, or short-cou studi In L949, 3,828 undergraduates and IW58 graduates attended the University Summer Session. The Division of Extension also conducts a Speakers' Bureau pro\ iding \a turers from the University staff for educational programs throughout the State. Hundreds of volumes printed by the University Press have shared the research of Illinois professors with scholars throughout the world. A publication of the Press in 1949 was included in the Fifty Books of the Year, a national award of the Institute of Graphic Arts for fine printing and d< ign. More than three million pamphlets and books are printed e v e n year by the the University discovers with the people whom the University represents. The Library, housing two and one-half million book>. is the lare s< of anv of the state universities and the third largest university library in tl country Many alumni have made outstanding contributions to the nation's literatun and arts. Allan Xevins won the Pulitzer Prize in 19 and again in 1 for biographies of Grover Cleveland and Hamilton Fish: Carl Van Doren, in 1939 for a biography of Benjamin Franklin: Mark Van Doren. i n 1 < for a dis anguished volume of poetry; James "Scotty" B. R :o„. in 1 r n o n b I r reporting to the Neu York Times on the Dumbarton ( )al Facultv members and alumni have exhibited then ( , of art in tn -

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