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Among the Presidents of the University of Illinois

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I G N A L L I N G a recognition of his many scientific achievements in the field of heating, ventilating and air conditioning, honor was paid to Presi29 at the Palmer House, Chicago, when the F. Paul Anderson Gold Medal was awarded to him by t h e American Society of Heating and Ventilating E n gineers* T h e Society's Committee on Awards honored Dr. Willard "on his outstanding work as an engineer, a teacher and an author in the fields of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning; for his outstanding consulting service on ventilation of the Holland T u n nel, of the United States Capitol, and of the proposed Chicago Subway; for his outstanding work in research and for the service he rendered to the Society as a member, as an officer and as technical adviser to its Committee on Research." Dr. Willard's work on the heating and ventilating of the Holland Tunnel in New York with Clifford M. Holland, the designer of the Tunnel, h a s received world-wide acclaim and the new ventilating principle first used in this tunnel has since been adopted for later constructions of similar kind with great success. Dr. Willard was a pioneer in warm air furnace heating research and through his efforts a typical residence was built for experimental research purposes at the University of Illinois. The F . Paul Anderson Award was

dent ARTHUR CUTTS WILLARD on J a n u a r y

created by Thornton Lewis, vice president of the Carrier Corporation, in honor of the late F . Paul Anderson, past president of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, former director of its Research Lab-

versity of Illinois and the higher education of the state, much more could be said than there is room for here. T o him we owe the existence of that excellent Library School which since his day has been a part of the University.

A V I E W O F T H R E E P R E S I D E N T S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y AT A B A L L GAME ON Illinois Field. They are, reading from left to right, former Acting-President Daniels, President Willard and President Emeritus David Kinley. If President Draper had been living at the time, rest assured that he would have been at the ball game.

oratory and former Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. T h e Committee on Awards for 1936 included Professor G. L. Larson, University of Wisconsin; H . P . Gant, Philadelphia, Pa., L. A. Harding, Buffalo, N e w Y o r k ; S. R. Lewis, Chicago ; and W . E. Stark, Cleveland, Ohio.

D r . DAVID K I N L E Y has been President

emeritus since the summer of 1930. H e is very active and spends a good deal of time traveling as well as writing on economics. Incidentally, he is the chairman of t h e board of the First National Bank in Champaign. Dr. A. H . DANIELS, acting president during the year 1933-34 and professor of philosophy emeritus, is leading a very active life, notwithstanding his retirement, doing things which he has never before h a d time to do.

Dr. ANDREW S. DRAPER, the fourth

Under him the College of L a w was founded, the work in political science enlarged, the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry brought into the university fold, and the courses of training for business, now the College of Commerce, had a beginning. "However, in the opinion of the writer, the greatest service which President Draper rendered the University was in the administrative organization which he left behind him . . . . President Draper believed properly in the division of function because division of function fixes responsibility . . . . T h e organization which he set up worked successfully for thirty years and became a model in whole or in part for other colleges "

P r o f e s s o r ROGER ADAMS, H e a d of the

THIS MEMORIAL TABLET, MOUNTED in the State Education Building at Albany, New York, is a gift of the school teachers of the State of New York.

executive head of the University of Illi- nois, came t o the University in 1894 at a time when it was still struggling with insufficient appropriations from the State. Having come with a broad educational experience from the State of New York, he w a s able to apply his powers of organization to the solidifying of university policies and to a substantial expansion through an increased support on t h e part of the state legislature. P a r t of this was undoubtedly due to the reorganization in 1892 of the University of Chicago and its effect upon the state legislature but by his vision and the vigor of his executive powers he was able to take full advantage of this opportunity and bring the University a long distance on its way to a first rank position. U n d e r his guidance the faculty in ten years expanded from eighty to 351 and the student body from 810 to 3,592. "The Life and W o r k of Dr. Andrew Sloan Draper," a biography by Harlan Hoyt Horner, Assistant Commissioner for Higher Education in the University of the State of N e w York, h a s lately appeared from our University Press, Dr. Kinley, in his introduction to t h e volume, states in part as follows: "As to what President Draper did for the Uni-

Department of Chemistry, while he isn't a president of the University, can appear on the president's page by his own right, as he has lately retired from the presid e n c y of t h e American Chemical Society, a real job by the way and a high honor. T h e real reason Roger Adams, Head for putting him of the Department of Chemistry here is that he was awarded the 1936 Willard Gibbs medal given by the Chicago section of the American Chemical Society and is considered a great man in the chemical field. This medal was awarded for his "outstanding and fundamental contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, and for conspicuous achievements as a teacher of chemistry.'' Past winners include not only several other distinguished American chemists but also such outstanding foreigners as Mme. Marie Curie -of France, Sir James Irvine of Scotland, Svante Arrhenius of Sweden, and Dr. Richard Willstaetter, of Germany.

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