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Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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THE UNTVKHSTTY OF ILLINOIS THE GROWTH OP THE UNIVERSITY 7 The growth and the strength of it have surprised all who are not versed in the history of intellectual awakenings. As the claim for one new department after another lias been met, students have gathered in greater and yet greater n u m b e r s : the claim for larger libraries and later appliances with which to help on the search for the more hidden truth has become more and more insistent: and the demand for additional departments which will promote every moral, culturing, philosophical, scientific, commercial and industrial interest in the State has become more and more imperative. And as the Legislature has responded to the people with a wise and generous hand the University has gone forward to splendid proportions and looks out upon the future with confidence in possibilities which are boundless. It occupies more than 20 substantial buildings: its faculties number more than 300 persons from all the leading universities of the world : the registration of students ten years ago was 755, the registration this year is 3288: they come from every county in Illinois, and from forty other states and eleven foreign countries. In size Illinois has come to be the eighth University in the United States. THE MAKING OF MEN AND WOMEN It is no respecter of persons. It is for no class of the people : it does not believe in classifying the people. Its high mission is to bind men together in a democracy of learnin } and to extend t h e noblest fraternity in all the wide world. It wants the favor and the patronage of th thrifty, but no one who is earnest, and has the preparation which the* high schools can give, will ever find it doorlammed in hie face because he is poor. It stands on the plane of t h e common brotherhood, and its doings are beyond the control of bigoj ry Or of part i sun ship, o( corpora to power, of social Ca b, or Of wealths It holds that woman has the inherent right t<> the same educational liberty and the me intellectual opportunity s man. Its face i to
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