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...Urbana, Illinois, April 1. In a ballot of nearly 4000 students at the University of Illinois 2134 favored modification of liquor laws, 1003 strict enforcement, 481 repeal and 209 the present situation. Twenty-one hundred and five admitted drinking, and of these 738 confessed to drunkenness...
...responsibilities which he must take up next autumn have been borne for the past decade by 65-year-old David Kinley, a member of the Illinois faculty since 1893, oldest state university president. Situated in the neighboring towns of Urbana and Champaign, not far from the geographical centre of the state, the University of Illinois squats down and spreads out over 1,548 acres of campus and farm land. In Chicago, three hours by rail to the north, are the great medical schools (Pharmacy, Dentistry, Medicine...
Besides the things physical of the uni versity he must become quickly conversant with the facts which represent Illinois in the realm of scholarship and science. When he, with his wife and daughter, takes up residence in the president's house on Urbana's Nevada street next autumn, he will meet Professor Samuel Wilson Parr of the Chemistry department. It is to Professor Parr that Illinois chemists turn for solace and inspiration in chemical experimentation. More important than his own work in the chemistry of coal, is the part Professor Parr played in encouraging the sort of research which ultimately...
Elected. Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, 46, president of the University of North Carolina; to be president of the University of Illinois; at Urbana...
Midwest: Illinois v. Chicago at Urbana; Minnesota v. Michigan at Minneapolis; Nebraska v. Oklahoma at Lincoln; Northwestern v. Indiana at Evanston; Notre Dame v. Southern California at Chicago; Purdue v. Iowa at Lafayette...