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Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 9 if you will help me I think I can convey to you a general knowledge of University affairs which you will be glad to have. We will take the buildings, generally speaking, in the order of their erection, and you will in t h a t way get something of an idea of the growth through which the University has passed. BUILDING. The first is the " Old B u i l d i n g , " or University Hall. It was erected in 1872 by a people who probably thought that it would meet all the needs of the " University " for all time. I t is not very attractive, architecturally, but it is very roomy, and exceedingly useful. One d e p a r t m e n t after another has grown large and gone out of this building until it has come to be the spacious home of the College of Literature and Arts. H e r e are the departments of ancient and modern languages and their literatures, rhetoric and oratory. Associated with these are the departments of history, philosophy, the science of government, economics, education, including psychology and the scientific study of the public school system. H e r e one may secure an allaround liberal education and may specialize in any one subject to his heart's content. Closely associated with the department of economics is the work preparatory to a business career,—finance and accounts, banking, insurance, manufacturing, transportation, trade, business administration, etc., which was specially provided by the last legislature. In this building, also, in close connection with the College of Literature, is the School of Art and Design, and the School of Music. The School oi' Art offers many courses in drawing, painting, modeling and design, and the School of Music provides liberal facilities in musical theory and history, as well as for the study of an instrument or the cultivation of the voice. There are half a dozen excellent musical organizations, and recitals and concerts are frequent. For three years we have had the support of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at our annual Musical Festival in May. In this building we
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