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James Tobin, age 17, of 916 West Hill street, Champaign, Ill. He is the son of Louis M. Tobin, Director of Publicity, Athletic Association, University of Illinois. He was the highest ranking student in his class at University High School, Urbana, Ill., and was a leader in school activities. He was editor-in-chief of the school yearbook, was class Commencement orator, was elected head of the Junior class, was Senior chairman of the school assembly, was business manager of the dramatic club, and was a member of the basketball team. He was first in his district in the national...
Robert E. B. Allen of Champaign, Illinois, A.B. De Pauw 1926, A.M. University of Illinois 1930, now an instructor in English at the University of Illinois...
...Twenty-five years ago, Mark Arie of Champaign, Ill., paid $50 for a shotgun. Having won $50,000 in cash prizes and trophies valued at $150,000, he used it again last week to become doubles target champion and champion-of-State-champions, with 197 targets out of 200, against 34 other State titleholders...
Corn is not the only thing that grows fast and big on the sunbaked, rain-drenched prairies of Illinois. A single tree was all that broke the flat monotony of a stretch of prairie between Urbana and West Urbana (now Champaign) in 1867 when citizens planted a State university there. In 67 years their seed has blossomed into the nation's seventh largest university. The 1,500-acre waste of prairie is green and landscaped, thick with great buildings. The new president whom trustees picked last week will administer a faculty & student body numbering 15,000 and a plant...
...Urbana-Champaign in 1913, as assistant professor of heating & ventilation, went a long-faced, long-legged young man named Arthur Cutts Willard. Born in Washington in 1878, son of a Treasury official, he had studied for two years in Washington's School of Pharmacy before setting off to M. I. T. for a course in chemical engineering. Teaching for a while in California and Washington, he was a practicing engineer when University of Illinois called him to its faculty...