Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-06-24
University OF Illinois Has Added
Millions to Wealth of People
of State.
LONG LIST OF DISCOVERIES
Finding of New Process Of coking
Coal Alone Worth More Than
Probable Appropriations for
the Next Century.


How many buildings has 1T How
large Is its facultyl
Many people think OF the university
as teaching Institution only. kind
of enlarged high school. This is
mistake. A university, particularly
state university, Is so much more than
thIs that It's teaching. in the ordinary
sense of the term, represents but
fraction of its service and expense. A
university Is, In fact, clearing
house for knowledge, both old and
new, forum for the discussion OF
present day problems, and an organic
alton for the solution of these prob
lens and for the discussion Of new
truth.
The University vi Illinois performs
four distinct functions, all expensive:
l. Teaching the undergraduate body
Of students. not IN set courses most
easily taught, but In those which best
meet their needs. requiring, of course
constant revision.
2. Training new faculty and execu-
tive staff: university Is not only a
repository of knowledge and an agency
Of discovery. but training place for
its own workers, Teachers and re
search men cannot be bought like
commodities. The only places where
they are produced are these same uni
versities; that Is to say, they must be
manufactured through the machinery
Of the institution.
3. Investigation and research for the
sake of correcting old beliefs and for
the discovery Of new facts, with which
not only to improve teaching but to
advance the industries and refine the
arts of life.
4. Attendance upon meetings, con-
ventions and conferences. educational
industrial, economic ana social, both
national, state and local. at which
leading men meet and discuss Ques-
tions of progress, and at which the
aniversity's advice and help are
sought
1t would be difficult to say which
one of these four functions costs the
university differ in this respect. In
the college of agriculture, for ex-
ample, the superstition Is that one-half
| the funds should go for research.
Therefore, much less than the total
energy of the scientific staff is avail
able for teaching students.
The University as = Teaching insti-
tuition.
| As a teaching Institution the uni
yersity comprises eight colleges, -four
schools. and a half dozen auxiliary
bureaus and divisions, such as the ex
| tension service and the experiment
stations, which. are exclusively re
search in character: l. College OF
Liberal Arts and Sciences; 2. College
| Of Agriculture; 3, College OF Engineer
ing; 4. College of Commerce; 5. Col
lege of Education; O. College of Law
T. School of Library Science; 8
School Of Music; 8. Graduate School
10. Summer Session; IL. College OF
Medicine, Chicago; II. College OF
Dentistry, Chicago; 10. School OF
Pharmacy. Chicago; IA Other great
departments are: Military and physi
cal education divisions and the health
| service.
The university's Research Work.
AS on the teaching side the universe.
ty imparts known truths and facts like
any other teaching institution. on tie
side of research 1t produces new truth
Great as Is the university as a
teaching organization, 1t is as great,
or greater, as an agency of research
II the university did no teaching at all.
| ii would justify the appropriations
made to 1t by the accomplishments OF
! Its research departments 1t Is i'm
possible to give a money value to the
results of such work, but 1t is doubt.
less beyond the total appropriations OF
the university from the time 1t was
established.
Some Of the important research con.
tributions which have Increased the
wealth and welfare of the state and
nation are these: Conservation and
improvement of the fertility of TIE
soil: the improvement OF live stock !:
discoveries In the manufacture and
methods of using reinforced concrete
the production OF an iron alloy with
magnetic properties, seven or eight
times more effective than is now in
use In the transformation of electric
current of high voltage; the discovery
Of new law Of steam expansion and
the production Of a steam table
more accurate than any before pub
hshed; the discovery of new process
for coking Illinois coal, which, when
commercially applied. will, in the opin
Ion of some "be worth more to the
state than all the appropriations the
university win get in hundred years.
Studies have been conducted TO les.
sen the destructiveness OF corn smut
TO determines the causes of decay Of
cotton CLOTH the effect Of early frost
90 corn ard the use Of Illinois clays
In manufaCtu re.