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Page 3 UNIVERSITY CALENDAR UrbanaChicago UnderChicago Pro(91st YearJ ! Champaign graduate Div. fessional Units 1st Semester Freshman Week & (1958) (1958) Fall Quarter (1958) Registration Sept.8-13 Sept.3-12 Registration Sept.25-26 Classes begin Sept.15 Sept.15 Classes begin Sept.29 Thanksgiving Vacation Nov.26-Dec ,1 Nov.26-Dec.l Thanksgiving Nov.27 Christmas Vacation Dec.20- Jan« >5 Dec.17-Jan.5 Examinations Dec.15-20 Semester Examinations Jan. 16-2*4Registration Dec.17-18 Jan. 16-2I* 2nd Semester (1959) Christmas Vac Dec.21- Jan.k (1959) Registration Feb. 2-1* Feb.5-6 Classes begin Feb. 5 Winter Quarter (1959) Feb .9 Spring Vacation Mar.25-30 Classes begin Jan. 5 Mar.26-Apr.1 Honors Day May 1 Examinations Mar.16*21 May 8 Semester Examinations May 27-June 5 May 28-June 6 Registration Mar.18-19 Memorial Day Holiday May 30 Spring Quarter (1959) May 30 Commencement June 13 Spring Vac. Mar.22-29 Summer Session (1959) Classes begin Mar.30 (1959) Registration June 15 May 30 Memorial Day June 19 Classes begin June 16 June 8-13 June 22 Examinations Independence Day July k July k June 12 Commencement Examinations Aug.7-8 Aug.lU 1st Semester (92nd Year) Freshman Week & (1959) Summer Quarter (1959) (1959) Registration Sept.li-19 Registration June 19 Sept.9-18 Classes begin Sept.21 Classes begin June 22 Sept.21 Thanksgiving Vacation Nov,25-30 Independence D.July k Nov.25-30 Christmas Vacation Dec.19-Jan>k Sept.7 Dec. 18-Jan. 1 Labor Day * Semester Examinations Jan.22-30 Examinations Sept.8-12 Jan.15-23

THE UNIVERSITY grew out of a demand of the people that higher education be available to more than a favored few. In 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed the "Land Grant College Act" providing for establishment of such colleges. Illinois opened Mar.2, 1868, with three faculty members and 50 students in a second-hand building. To the original campus at Urbana-Champaign was added in 1896 the first of the Chicago Professional Units in the health sciences. Undergraduate Divisions were established in I9U6 at Chicago and Oalesburg, with that at Galesburg closing in 19^9 when need for it had passed. However, much as the University has grown in size, it has grown more in concept and activities. The kind of university it is today was unknown in l868. The three-fold pattern of education, research, and service is a new and American contribution to the idea of a university. Today Illinois offers training in almost every field of human interest and activity; its great laboratories and scholars constantly extend the bounds of human knowledge; through publications, radio, extension and service activities it takes information to the people. And from the laboratories and other activities, vitalising information and inspiration flow back to the classes. The University is internationally known. Traceable returns from its research repay every year to the people of Illinois more than the cost of building and operating the University since it opened in 1868. For some of the things in which it has been first, see the next page; in others it has been a moving force, and in many more far ahead of the procession.