Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1965 [PAGE 9]

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In student vol fare and activities, Illinois also has been in front. In 1901 l Thomas Arkle Clark was named dean of men he was the world's first to bear this title. Today the office of Dean of Students has expanded this interest to many aspects of student life outside the classroom. In 19kS Illinois pioneered another great area by establishing the first comprehensive college program for the severely disabled. It enables them to carry on lives as near normal as possible and become useful citizens, and is being adopted elsewhere. Records show that Illinois had the first indoor intercollegiate relay carnival in 1917 and that in 1902 R. C. Matthews was the country's first collegiate cheer leader. Three great campus-wide observances originated at Illinois--Homecoming, in 1910; collegiate Dads Day, in 1920; collegiate Mothers Day, in 1921. Illinois is proud also of development at its campus of the student church and church foundation movements. The first church expressly for college students, McKinley Presbyterian Church, was established in 1906; Wesley Foundation was established by the Methodist Church in 1913In research, the whole world knows of the Morrow Plots on the campus at Urbana-Champaign. These have been in continuous cultivation since 1876, are oldest soil experiment plots in America and second oldest in the world. Their lessons of how to preserve and restore soil fertility are of incalculable value. In l88l Prof. Burrill gave the world first evidence that bacteria cause disease. He founded the science of plant pathology before others discovered bacteria cause diseases of animals and humans. The University's 1896 state-wide study of water-borne epidemics was another first. While its Agriculture Experiment Station established in 1888 was not the first, Illinois pioneered in 1903 "when it extended this idea to another field by establishing the nation's first Engineering Experiment Station. In 1908 it opened another area by making Miss Nellie E. Goldthwaite the country's first full-time research worker in home economics. In 1913 Prof. Jakob Kunz made the first modern sensitive photoelectric cell. In 1922 Prof. J. T. lykociner used this when he devised and first demonstrated modern sound-on-film motion pictures. In 1924 the world's first house specially for home heating research was built at the campus, providing a new type of laboratory for research in which Illinois has led. In 19IK) Prof. D. W. Kerst invented the betatron—an "atom-smasher" for physics research, and high-energy x-ray source for medicine and industry. The first betatron entirely for medical use was installed in 19^9 on the University's medical campus; the world's largest betatron, 3^-million volts, went into operation in 1950 at Urb ana-Champaign. In 1954 a group led by Dr. Warren H. Cole, surgery department head in the College of Medicine, demonstrated that cancer cells sometimes slough off from a tumor into the bloodstream as the tumor is being removed during surgery and lodge elsewhere in the body and reproduce tumors. Once their n sarch confirmed this fully, tl / developed a now widely used technique for prevent, i i ; such smv*A* ic