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\ Spaniih cdiUon oi the Univ It) catting w..s •.. m • Latin A.,, ,„., , „,, > and Sanskrit were nov, taught In the very I aivcrity which I „,.,„ e

.1 i i i iK . .„ r died ,(> ,l to account for tca< huig Latin, ilurts years before had been i am « » (, l) l l u l i i • • uitiirh bv l '.raised the numbci ol facultw lames appointments, w n u n oy i w . . . V

members to nearly one thousand, were d b t b g d M •cholarly, and youthful. Gustaf K. Karsten, a German . 1 , 1 . , , had founded the /owed „ /,„,/,.,, and , ftt [ndiana, and when he came to Illinoi. he brou ght it Fhil( with him; it rill published on campus. William Albert No, fcft h job as chief chemist for the United States Bureau of Standard, to head the Cher*. istry Department. Henry Baldwin Ward tve up the dean hip of Nebraska', Colic oi Medicine to head the Department oi Zoology at [lhnou and to make an international reputation in parasitol K r Adam., now head of « Chemistry, came from Harvard. Brilliant recruits were enticed away from l h , lw League colleges of the East and the great land-grant colic , of the West, and were hunted in the classrooms of Illinois. President Ehot ol Harvard 1

so many of his bright young instructors during J a m e s ' first four that he came here to sen- just what was going on. The new faculty were highly word conscious and the n. I at Illii.

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Press was evident. Much of the early printing for the l nivi rsity had been d < oil campus in Illinois reform schools. By 1920 the faculty were publishing an

average of fifty books a year and over fiv< h u n d r e d artic 1 . JamI Itablished

the University of Illinois Press and 1 [arrison E. Cunningham, who v i ., m to the registrar and secretary of the- Hoard of Trustees, became the first director in 1918.

Meanwhile, relations with the Coll ge of Medicine had not been factory and it was closed. This move startled the alumni. T h e y made a proposition to buy the college corporation property outright a n d pn nt it to the University as a gift. T h e leading stockholders a m o n g the faculty not onl contributed their own stock but also joined in the c a m p a i g n to obtain the remainder — a strenuous campaign which turned out to IK- something never before seen in Illini annals. Almost .ill oi the shares were ured as gifts. James, who had watched the campaign closely, was delighted and now turned his attention to securing the lust State a p p r o p r i a t i o n for the medical college. A furor arose among private colleges over the- issue oi "state medicim but the sum of $100,000 was granted bv the legislature. KM rciscs celebrating the transfer of title and d d of the Coll, ol Physicians and Suigeons to th stuck of the Carnegie icjvoil^ now effected dl I University College: of Medicine were held on M a n h (>. 19] T h e medical faculty committee had made Wl the- count,

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twelve h a d i n g medical College and

chan in their own. Entrance requirement died for one years colleg preparation. The- new p, ram demanded the completion of •.OlO houn f i . i;i1 '"7 " - " " " i " " - and lupcrid lenio. m r, to bTrligibic foi "cxUrnrshiL » ho»P»tab. By 1915 the Univenity of Illinois c ,f Medicine w » rated

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