Caption: Book - Four-Year Report of UI President (1950)
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tspccts of a single topic. Topics are < hosen, with the aid of an 1 visor} committee! of lawyers, from among those questions which a of pn sing interest to members of the bar of tin's state. A s n 1 < ictivity is a program of short courses for lawyers. The first of these was held in November, 1918; since then these courses have been held three times a year. T h e support of these two projects by the legal profession lias been enthusiastic. The third step will be to offer graduate work in law. Graduate work will be an intrinsic part of the research and educational aspects of the center. attainment new physical facilities for the College of Law. So much by way of illustration of what is happening in the social r °gy oev Department of Sociology and Anthropology); that the Speech Clinic has moved into a new home where it may expand its widely known services; that a Speech Research Laboratory, equipped with excellent scientific apparatus and headed by nationally known personnel, has been established in Illini Hall; that the Division of Social Welfare Administration has been given independent status; that the Department of Psychology, long known for its work in experimental psychology, has developed remarkably during the last few years in the fields of social and clinical psychology; that the Institute of Government, established several years ago at the request of the General Assembly, will have its own director this year and will accelerate its program. The Humanities and the Fine Arts This is said to be an age of science and technology. It is characterized by the discovery and use of techniques for the mastery ot physical events. Since the purposes for which things are used an more important than the things themselves, (his age, more than am previous one, needs to establish a system of right and wrong that will be universally accepted. A failure to do this will bring disaster on a new scale. More values — concepts of the good, the just and the true 40
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