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Caption: Book - Illini Years
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/ CUTTS WILLARD r " 1934-1946 Arthur Gutts W'illard, head of the Mechanical Engineering Department and acting dean of the College of Engineering during 1933-34. was elected president on March 4. 1934. He had been on tl ampus for twenty-one years. In 1921. he had received international recognition for his r< irch work which provided the engineering principles for the- ventilation system of the Holland Tunnel under the Hudson River connecting Manhattan with Jersey City. Often called the best-di man on the ampus, W'illard was also well known as a hard worker and an advocate of more cultural coiu for technical students. Due to the depression and his personal dislike of public ostentation, he dispensed with the traditional inaugural cerenv and plunged into his job. The enrollment for 1934-35 was 13,067 budget nearly eight million dollars, the lov 1921. There was little hope from State the Illinois relief roll had mounted to r million dollars a month. 97
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