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Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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c Itfc UL t P S THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COMING STEPS IN ITS EVOLUTION (Reprinted from the " Illinois Magazine," October 1,1903.) E R Y , very few*universities have enjoyed such a strong and rapid development as the University of Illinois. New, large, and substantial buildings have appeared each year. T h e faculties and students have increased in numbers so rapidly that we each feel our acquaintance is very limited. W e have affiliated outside professional schools until it seems to be the natural order. W e have started new lines of work, and expanded the equipment until we have created an organization and secured the facilities for prosecuting almost every phase of research and of advanced instruction. Very naturally some wonder whether we are not coming to a imit in development ; others find amusement in castles in the air which are wholly fanciful. "f&Q ~***M V T h e r e is no limit, save in resources, to the evoFutiotrbf a trap versity, but a university cannot carry on its work in castles which do not r t upon the ground. | W e stand for the higher educational < work f a gr it, rich, strong State, capable of aiding Ul in any f measure it thinks rood. W e a r c commissioned to help on the intellectual advanc not of a class, but of the mass ind we arc particularly enjoin I to preach the gospel of work, and to help 00 the gr | industl i upon which the wealth and strength of the State st. W baVC pi Cred because we have followed the terms of our c mmission, and I cause we have not quarrel I among oui Selves, bill ha\ had a ; i fellowship and a correct and I ageOUl spiril while pursuing the State's highest work. \ \ \ hall Continue OI| md shall grow bevond th ltulen
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