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IturriU next attended to the problem oi an underpaid and ovcrwori , IftCUlty, Salaries were raised, a s \ s t e m ol t e n u r e was i n s t i t u t e d , a n d ibbatical 7, leaves were put into effect. The faculty ^<s increased lion, io ,,, most of the stall' i n e m h e r s w e r e n a m e d to SCrVC on Committer h a v i n g ;, • },.,,, David m administrative responsibilities. Anions; the n e w a p p o i n t m e n t s by B u n ill w e r e m e n oi IIU h ( alii,. , ,, Kinlcy, Thomas Arklc Clark, '90, Eugene Davenport, and Cyril < Hopkins— all destined to play vital roles in the history of the I University. Burrill was p r i m a r i l y a scientist mid d e e p l y c o n c e r n e d w i t h postgraduate research. He brought the Graduate School into being in 189 i an accidental but fitting milestone to mark the University's twenty-fifth anniv« ary. He also s t a r t e d t h e first S u m m e r School a n d the first U n i v e r s i t y K \ t e n s i o n p r o g r a m . In 1893 Burrill, still considered a stopgap administrator and a lovable visionary, asked t h e legislators for half a million d o l l a r s . hundred thousand. I o the a m a / e n ,t of t h e Hoard of T r u s t e e s h e got t h e u n p r e c e d e n t e d a p p r o p r i a t i o n of n e a r l y three BurrilFs thinking-included publicity, and a publicity committei —unheard of before — was accordingly set up. The most spectacular contribution of this committee resulted in making hundreds of thousands ol Illinois < itizcns more aware and more understanding of what the University was doing. Among other amhitious activities this committee once sent nine freight cars of material to the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. They set up "the most extensh and most representative exhibit shown by any rdu itional institution." In addition to all he did as acting regent, Burrill continued to teach his share of full term courses in Bacteriology, Systematic Botany, Plant Reproduction and Development, and Pharmaceutical Botany. It is difficult to s where he found the time to supervise the research problems 0 f J ^TM\U students in botany, hut this he also accomplished. By the twenty-fifth year, the seedling trees planted on unpus in the beginning had reached second-story windows. Old femes had been taken down: they were no longer needed to check wandering livestock. Here and ? ™ «mcnt.walks, "artificial stone," replaced board and gravd paths I b WCrc instalI fff •*»« <* i" — p u s buildings, and streets in Chai nUrbana were being paved for the first time w e r e ? ^ 1 > . ' z ; ! : : : : : • ; : " ' ; ' ' > " • •' b in .>,.„.„ U ; , ^llcgiate d; in September^ c| I T * ""** ***" *° P ** n0W ' * * • Plan of comoleti, f " ^ **' ^ to enter on g u Early F i c l d D a y j ^ ^ ^ cunriculum Iradin , ,l rrill encouraged thr Univrritv tVi V J ^ ^ ^ ' ** " ' " ' l in and filled UD th ' »* *wn field Student • *' «'" field u m hl| ( " and mi* uiv lul I \\\ ,\ \ U
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