Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-26
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.
Increasing interest In for
Business Life.

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Business Life.
Tables Of registration for the last three
years, which have just been issued by the
school OF business administraticn in the
University Of Illinois, show a steadily In
creasing interest in the work now being
done by the universities in educating men
for business life. In the year 1867 the total
number OF students taking the regular
business courses was ninety-tour: i'm 1907
0s II was ia, and the number for the pres
ent year is las. Besides those who are regu-
larry enrolled in the school OF business
administration. II is estimated that $50 stu
dents registered in other colleges Of the
university are taking one or more of the
business subjects offered.
In view of the law in force in Illinois.
which requires that all certified public
accountants pass examinations in CONNER
cial law, theory OF accounts. practical ac-
counting and auditing before receiving their
certificates, the new course preparatory to
the examination for accountsncy which has
been introduced into the university is Of
particular interest. With the growth of
great commercial enterprises there has been
a demand created for men who are experts
in accounts. who are able to examine the
financial details of a business organization
in such a manner as to give a reliable
analysis Of its real condition. 1t is to
provide these experts that the University
Of Illinois has introduced four new courses
In accountancy. They are: Principles Of
accounting, cost accounting, industrial ac-
counting and advanced accounting. The
immediate interest in these courses has
been such that 1t has been impossible to
accommodate all the students desiring to
enroll in them.
The Oldest continuous agricultural expert
ment In the United States is in progress
at the University of Illinois. and the field
on which 1t Is being conducted is the oldest
soil experiment field in the United States
and probably in the world. The experiment
was begun in 1879. and was designed to
show by continuous comparison the effects
or different methods of crop rotation and
the effect on the yield of repeated planting
OF the same crop without the addition OF
any fertilizing materials.
The results of the experiment show that
on good s~oil-average land of the Illinois
corn belt'-the production decreases stead
lily some so per cent in thirteen years and
90 per cent in twenty-nine years, when
corn is planted on the same ground con-
tinuously, and without the addition Of fer
%tlliEers. The same soil increases in pro-
Effectiveness practically 80 per cent in thir-
teen years when a judicious combination
of crop rotation and fertilization is main
tanned.
The University. Of Illinois. which recently
created a department OF railway engineer
ing, is now making plans for the installa-
ton Of apparatus. to cost several thousand
dollars, for the use of students in the de-
partment. Plans and specifications for the
various pieces of apparatus nave been
drawn up by members of the faculty and
the contracts for the work will be awarded
November l. The additional equipment is
to be used In carrying on tests and making
Investigations on various kinds OF railroad
work not hitherto undertaken, and for that
reason has to be specially designed.