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THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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The uniform is gray, officers blue. The field and line officers are chosen from the Graduate School and the two upper classes, and the non-commissioned officers from the two lower classes. The organization is complete, and the discipline exact. I t is the claim of the University that its military organization is in appearance, discipline, and morale not equaled in the State. I t has attracted first attention in the last two inaugural parades at Springfield. The department is in charge of an officer of the Regular Army detailed by the War Department, the present detail being a gallant veteran of the Civil War and of many Indian campaigns who has been in the service more than forty years. The building with steep gables, built of red pressed brick and Bedford stone, is t h a t of the College of Science and is called, with doubtful advisability, the Natural History Building. Here are the departments of botany, a zoology, entomology, g ology, physiology, and experimental psychology. Here, too, are the quarters of the State Entomologist, and the State Laboratory of Natural History. One interested in scientific research will gravitate towards this building. If cats and dogs are indisposed to contribute themselves to science they will go a long way around it. In one of these rooms there are enough microbes bottled up in test tubes to set the whole State aflame with malignant diseases, and in another there are the appliances to show that the heart of the embryonic chicken in the egg begins to beat in less than two days after the hen begins to set. Every scientific ,KIN'(, found I Nall is theworld these new brick way,ThisisG followed in inknows it. scientific with the over how and Benthusiasm which of buff how very difficult and the very has linosuperior proc Ueager. the qu< at for country for engineering edueais ILD *s no building prove the departments truth. When it and stone, patience

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