Word: urbana-champaign
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...gangster, Thomas Arkle Clark held until last week a job he invented and made famous: dean of men at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Ill), Graduate of Illinois (1890), onetime professor of rhetoric, onetime acting dean of the College of Literature & Arts, he became in 1909 the first U.S. dean of men: chastener of delinquents, soother of parents, information bureau, helper of the needy, social and moral adviser. A year ago he reached 67, age limit for university officials, was asked to stay on until the University's new president, Harry Woodburn Chase, was installed. Also, they wished...