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...Urbana, Ill., scheduled to lecture the Exchange Club on Mark Twain, University of Illinois English Professor H. G. Paul stood up, faced the Club, looked, then stared at his notes, collected himself, delivered a splendid lecture on Abraham Lincoln...
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...
Among the others who expect to make tours are: K. B. Murdock '16, Dean of the Faculty, to Washington, D.C.; P. P. Chase '00, lecturer in History, to Des Moines and Ames, low a, Urbana, Illinois, and to Denver and Omaha; Hans Zinsser, professor of Bacteriology, Harvard Club of Virginia; G. H. Edgell, '09, professor of Fine Arts, to Grand Rapids, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Detroit; W. I. Nichols '26, Harvard Club of New York Bedford...
Died. Thomas Arkle ("Tommy Arkle") Clark, 70, longtime (1901-31) dean of the University of Illinois, first dean of undergraduates in a U. S. university; of an intestinal disease; in Urbana...