Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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T H E I M V K K S I I V OF I L L I N O I S 11) | far as I know, whore this all important subject ie given recognized po it ion in college work, and where work in it may count tow ards a degree. We cannot tarry longer in these I mil dings, but before w e g o i t o u g h l to he said that a very large share of the credit fortius moat agricultural development is due to D m Eugene Davenport, and that it now looks as though the advance of the next two years will equal, ii* not surpass, that E the last two. HEMICAL LABORATORY. This fine, larire building, hardly finished, is the Chemical Laboratory. It is in the form of the letter £ , and is 280 feet along the front, and 116 feet along the wings. The details of this structure came from the very full experience of this University and from chemical laboratories in all parts of the world. In ample provision for work in both pure and economic chemistry, as well as in range and efficiency of work, we nvvd not fear comparison with any. It is said t h a t we have graduated more students in ad\ QC I chemistry than any other institution in the country save one. I am not competent to tell you about the details of this work. Here are lecture rooms and laboratories, class rooms and seminary rooms and research rooms and balance rooms and supply rooms, ami stills and re torts and bottl 9 and odors, without limit. [ 8uppos< the apparatus needs strengthening; it always does. If that should cea» to be true we w uld all be ripe Cor translation. In that room there they have been carrying on a lot of nutrition experiment in cooperation with the I'nited States (Government. I heard them sav the other dav that thev had prov 1 that there was just as much nut riment in t h e chea] cut fjneal a in t he more cost ly ; that the t h e only diffei ace is in b ithsomene md price. There is consolation ! me of us in that. In this room her they have, in tin- h- f six or ei^ht years, analyzed fifteen thousand specimens of drinking water in order to determine whether they tntain the f mm of die •• Tin e have come from
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