University of Illinois - Urbana History

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University
of
Illinois
Directory
Listing the 35,000 Persons Who Have Ever Been
Connected with the Urbana-Champaign
Departments Including Officers of
Instruction and Administration
And 1397 Deceased
Edited By Vergil Phelps, 1916
1,425 pages, indexed
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This directory contains the names of the thirty-five thousand persons who have been connected with the Champaign-Urbana departments. Such officers of administration are included as are listed in the Annual Registers. The Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry and the
School
of
Pharmacy
in
Chicago
, with a former student body of about ten thousand, have been omitted but will appear in a proposed Directory for the
Chicago
departments.
The information about each person includes his full name as recorded at registration; years of attendance at the University; degrees received; institutions attended; occupation and present address.
A residence address or a permanent address at which the person can always be reached is recorded in parentheses following the business or present address. The principal positions held by faculty members have been specified. There is a cross file of married names and of men's names that have been altered since leaving the University although the registration name also has always been given.
Higher education was provided for as early as 1804, when Congress made three districts in
Indiana
Territory
and directed the Secretary of the Treasury
t
o locate one township of land in each district for the use of a seminary of learning. At this time
Illinois
belonged to
Indiana
Territory
. Later, in 1818,
when
Illinois
became a state, a second township was given for the endowment of a seminary, and also one-sixth of 3% of the net proceeds of government
l
ands sold after January 1, 1819.' This latter donation to the state was to be " exclusively bestowed upon a college or university."
Although many proposals were made no action was taken for decades, when Governor Oglesby approved the act incorporating the
Illinois
Industrial
University
, February 28th, 1867. The subjects actually taught at the opening of the University were algebra, geometry, natural philosophy, history, rhetoric, and Latin, and the work was carried on in the brick building which was the donation of
Champaign
County
. This building also served as a dormitory and came to be known as the Old Dormitory building.
The social life during this period, was, in the main, simple and democratic. A number of student organizations were formed, many of which are still in existence. The earliest literary societies were the Adelphic and Philomathean organized in March, 1869. Two years later the women of the University organized the Alethenai. In the same year (1871) the University band furnished its first music for commencement. The first student publication appeared in November, 1871, and was known as
The Student
and published monthly. The paper two years later changed its name to
The
Hint. The Young Men's Christian Association and the Agricultural Society date back to the same year. In 1874, there was organized an association for the advancement of telegraph, known as the Illinois Industrial University Telegraphic Association. Instruments on the line numbered twenty-five, and the central offices were open for practice all hours of the day
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