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Caption: Booklet - UI Informational Pamplet (1945)
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Bridge Test loneenng at Illinois First architectural instruction west of Alleghanies, 1868. F u s t student botany laboratory in America, 1869. r i r s t shop for engineering education in U. S., 1870. First soil experiment plots in America and oldest com experiment plots in the world, the Morrow Plots, in continuous use since 1876. First evidence of bacteria causing plant disease, by T. J. Burrill, 1881. First Library School west of Alleghanies, 1893. First dean of men, Thomas Arkle Clark, 1901. First Engineering Experiment Station, 1903. First church expressly for college students, McKinley Presbyterian, 1906. First full-time research worker in home economics, Nellie E. Goldthwaite, 1908. First collegiate Homecoming celebration, 1910. First church foundation at any campus, Wesley Foundation (Methodist), 1913. First sensitive photoelectric cell, by Jakob Kunz, 1913. First summer courses for athletic coaches, 1914. First four-year athletic coaching course, 1919. First antitoxin for botulinus (ptomaine) poisoning in man, by Robert Graham, 1919. First alkali-vapor radio tubes, by C. T. Knipp and H. A. Brown, 1920. First collegiate Dad's Day celebration, 1920. First sound-on-film movies, by J. T. Tykociner, 1921. First collegiate Mother's Day celebration, 1921. First short course for firemen, 1925. First band clinic, 1930. First to reveal growth rings in teeth, by Isaac Schour. 1938. First betatron, by D. W . Kerst, 1940. First occupational therapy training under medical college supervision, 1943. Pioneering work in reinforced concrete, "fatigue" of metals, I-beams, railway problems, bridge design, materials testing, air conditioning and home heating, and electronics. Pioneer work in dairy cattle improvement, soybeans, crop breeding, improved feeding, control of animal diseases, farm accounting, home economics. Urbana-Champaign are jsiness Administration, nd Applied Arts, Law. Deral Arts and Sciences, lucation. le Agricultural Expeririment Station, Bureau :au of Economic and Educational Research, ch, and Small Homes campus are the State 3ry, and State Water Operation mm stry, and Pharmacy in )k County Hospital in ! near west side. The -om the "loop," contrain, street car or pies the south side of 'tt streets. South of it Educational hospitals ' Children. elfare of the State of 've group of hospitals buildings of the Unieement available for mts include the Neu "stitute for j u v e n i l ( " h the University °ngress street h j h between these w The betatron, " outstanding development of the decade in phytic*."
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