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Page 18 first architectural instruction west of Alleghenies 'FIRSTSy first laboratory study for botany students in America AT first shop for engineering education in America ILLINOIS first architecture graduate in America, Clifford Ricker first soil experiment plots ti America, oldest corn experiment plots in world, Morrow Plots, in continuous cultivation since 1877 first general bacteriology course, T. J. Burrill 1881 first evidence of bacteria causing plant disease, T. J* Burrill I890 first course in architectural engineering 1893 first library school west of Alleghenies .(joined Univ. 1897) 1893 first interscholastic track and field meet in Middle West 1896 first statewide study of water-borne epidemics 1897 first state-supported school of music in U.S. 1898 first hydraulic-type railway dynamometer test car 1899 first cooperative university hospital association 1901 first dean of men in world, Thomas Arkle Clark 1902 first college-level courses in business English 1902 first cheer leader, R. c. Matthews 1903 first Engineering Experiment Station in America 1906 first church expressly for college students, Univ* Presbyterian 1908 first fulltime home economics research worker* Nellie E. Goldth1910 first collegiate Homecoming celebration in world waite 1912 first professor of civic design (city planning) C. M. Robinson 1913 first church foundation at any campus, Wesley (Methodist) 1913 first modern sensitive photoelectric cell, Jaltob Kunz 1914 first short course in highway engineering 1914 first summer courses for athletic coaches 1917 first indoor intercollegiate relay carnival 1919 first four-year athletic coaching course 1919 first antitoxin for botulinus poisoning in man, JRobert Graham 1920 first alkali-vapor radio tubes, C. T. Knipp and H. A. Brown 1920 first collegiate Bad's Day celebration 1921 first official University Mother's Day celebration 1921 first to show origin of renal cysts in human embryo, O.E«Kampmei€ 1922 first sound-on-film sound movies, J. T. Tykociner 1923 first to identify type-C botulism as cause of limberneck in poultry, Robert Graham and I* B. Boughton 1923 first student newspaper to have full AP wire service 1924 first house built especially for home heating research 1925 first short course for firemen 1925 first Boy Scout Day at football game 1927 first master's degrees with major in library science 1930 first band clinic 1936 first to develop down-draft coking principal for burning soft coal, J. R. Fellows 1936 first to show action of lymphatic valves by motion pictures, R. 1938 first to reveal growth rings in teeth, Isaac Schour L. Webb 1938 first Veteran's Day at football game 1939 first Ph.D. granted in accountancy, J. w. McMahan 19^0 first betatron, D. W. Kerst 19^0 first traffic engineering conference 1941 first Neuropsychiatry Institute with all facilities for clinical and experimental treatment of nervous and mental diseases 19^3 first occupational therapy training under medical college supervision with theoretical and clinical training correlated 19^3 first use of resilient resins (plastics) in artificial ears, noses, fingers, etc., S. D. Tylman 19^6 first complete course in pedodontia ( child dentistry) 19^6 first affiliate course for student nurses in orthopaedics 1948 first state Business Management Service 1949 first betatron for cancer research 1868 1869 1870 I872 1876