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Caption: Booklet - Installation of UI President (1931)
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c Installation Address President MARRY WOODIU/RN C H A S E : Jt is with a deep sense of responsibility and of opportunity that I respond, Mr. President, to your formal words of induction into this high office. The history of the University of Illinois is so distinguished, the opportunities that lie before it so vast, that one is sobered at such a moment by the task that confronts him. The University of Illinois is not, as universities go, an old institution. Incorporated in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University in response to the passage of the Morrill Land Grant Act, it was opened in 1868 with a Regent, two professors, and fifty students. These busy professors gave instruction in five departments: agriculture, polytechnics, military, chemistry and natural science, and general science and literature. In March, 1870, the trustees voted to admit women as students, and twenty-four entered sixty years ago this fall. In 1877 the University was authorized to confer degrees; in 1885 its name was changed to the University of Illinois./ This is not the time for a recital of the successive steps by which the simple small college of those early days became the great university of today; by which, in a little more than sixty years, fifty students grew to nearly fifteen hundred people engaged in teaching, in research and in extension in the modern complex assemblage of colleges, schools, extension and research services, experiment stations and bureaus that is the University of Illinois. I will merely say thaj^under able and wise leadership its history has been one of steady rogress in usefulness and distinction. Few institutions ave known more loyal and devoted service, none owe a greater debt to those whose lives of unselfish devotion have made possible the University of today. The history of the University of Illinois may be short, but it is rich in the names of those who have given it of their 1 lx st in unrestricted measure. (3)
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