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Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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|(5 TH! I HIVKH Ml OF HUH masterpieces in sculptui and this rich colli n • oi I I engravings, unsurpa ed in th< minth«-r of hi-t r\t portraits, were procured by the firsl I id<-m the 0nj versity through tin jenerositj > friend in the early da s f of the institution, President Gr ry wmt to I make his selections, and ave liberally i hi >wn m is weD as of his cultival I artistic ense to give theses llections to the institution into which b wa | t i n - h i s own life. They must in time be install I in an ei II nment of greater dignity and effectives in a baildi which will stand for the art inter bs of tin Stat*-. LIBRARY SCHOOL. w the State Library School, whirl) h : >ms here, which is preparing librarians for public servi \ It ha9 a two years' course, and requires three years of college H rk in preparation for it. .Many of its student- are dual - of this and other universities. The cour is sei re and w< have more students than we know li to take ar :". The school has but one or two substantial rival- in the country. It is doing a very great work for the publi and incidentally it has rendered a marked e n to tin Library interests and has exerted a very uplift in niluence upon the womanly interests of this University . Tin school, with the Library, requires the exclusive i: f t his building, and it is to be hoped that the erection of a 86] arate administration building will in time dx tin building over to it. OUTJJ C A M P U S . We A students have multiplied in recent years they flock out t these beautiful lawns, and the artificial forest, in the at ternoons, at this time of the year for recreation, All the open air sports flourish. Even the "'Varsity t u n a " practice here for a time in order to gratify the ambition of the gardeners and give the lawns on "Illinoi : iehpa better chance for life.
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