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f'^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^P chased • . b u ading plw« were laid. Further developments were interrupted by the war and the plana wen- not picked up again for years. Since 1921, however, *any applicants for admission to the College of Medicine have had to be ' , .1V, 1V ( a i h year for lack < i facilities. > turned a>*»») •[| u . School Of Dentistry had three lives and had been closed for sonic time before fames acted to revive it. Dr. Frederick B. Moonhead was named dean and the College of Dentistry was reopened in 1913. It was not prepared for \ . g() students who enrolled that fall, and three years later with the college <till unprepared, the enrollment had shot up to 182. After the Inst remodeling • [914 futil< ittempts were made every year to keep pace with the rise in •ollment and to increase the use of a building and equipment which had 1 •-n inadequate and obsolete for over a decade. By 1917 an optional six-year liculum in science and dentistry leading to the B.S. and the D.D.S. degrees organized the time to be divided equally between premedical studies at Urbana and specialized studies at Chicago. The ambition of President James for the University knew no bounds. He encouraged the location of the State Geological Survey on campus at Urbana. His goal for the library, which he pushed for years, was a new building "big enough to house a million volumes." Several presidents had tried to abolish or change the old Academy or preparatory department, a h a n g e r from the early days when Students from rural

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districts with inadequate secondary schools were deficient in University entrance requirements, [artes finally replaced it with a model high school which

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s, • High School opened in 1921. Enrol] ,„ ;it the University had increased from 3,734 to 9,249 in the |.„„ ,,, iw 1920, out oi every hundred student, twenty-seven were from ,,,<lf,v • f i other lands. Illinois graduates could be found u forty foreign i ountriet. . |. fpag wtry might havi t to full fl > » " • • < " " , ' < entennial and the Universlt/. tcentens«l, but foru. A ii r i<n7 \l.>-i «1 il»- rlaborati > dec! .., ol war with « rmany on April 6, I n/. i»< ,,l. lebrate the double aimivrsuyu.re abandoned. II, military tradition oi land-grant colli had not been m _ I Sine || had Uken the lead B the I 1 « t « * J £ Withhise,

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un mens, Major P«nk D Webster in 1914 W « V rtment, and the ftnt colli brigade ... tn«

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