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Caption: Book - Overview of University of Illinois for Chicago Alumni (1926)
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESIDENT'S OFFICE Urbana, Illinois, TO THE ALUMNI OF CHICAGO AND VICINITY: The opportunity to send you an annual greeting through the medium of this Directory is always a welcome privilege. The year just closed, 1925-26, was, I believe, in all respects a successful one for your University, as well as the biggest, in point of numbers, in its history. The total enrollment for the year in the Urbana Departments was 10,710 and in the Chicago Departments, 1136. These figures do not include the Summer Sessions. The summer enrollment in 1925 was 2412 and in 1926, 2116. At Commencement in June, 1926, 1475 degrees, including 234 graduate and professional decrees, were conferred in the Urbana Departments alone. The total number receiving degrees in Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy in the Chicago Professional Schools was 280. At the beginning of the year, five important new buildings, the new Commerce Building, the Dairy Manufacturers Building, the new Men's Gymnasium, the new Residence Hall for women and the McKinley Hospital were occupied. The Commerce Building and Gymnasium were the only additions to class room and office space, the others being service buildings. Notwithstanding these additions, however, the total square feet of class room and laboratory floor space per student is still less than it was fifteen and twenty years ago. The increasing enrollment has absorbed much of the .space provided by the new buildings. However, they have improved very materially conditions over what they were three and four years ago, but there are still many building needs for which to provide. Moreover, with prospect of further increase in the enrollment in the next few years, it is reasonable to expect that the University will have to continue putting up new buildings to keep up with new needs, let alone catching up with the old. I trust that those of you who have had an opportunity to see the new buildings on the South 9
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