ILLW BY ALLAN NEVINS 1917 PREFACE THE fact that this volume
constitutes the first history of the University of Illinois ever
written has largely determined its character and scope. It seemed
neces sary to the writer to throw a much greater emphasis upon the
record of the past than upon the tendencies or characteristics of
the present. Even in the four final chapters, nominally not
historical at all, will be found much historical matter. The
detailed steps in the de velopment of the institution are known to
so few of the graduates or faculty, not to speak of outsiders, that
a comprehensive account of them is the first requisite of any
introduction to the inner spirit of the rapidly growing University.
Moreover, these are years in which the institution is rapidly
losing the men who as teachers and students have personal
recollection of its first years, and it seemed a duty to attempt,
while it was still possi ble, to interweave with facts from written
sources those which come authentically from unwritten. Of the short
comings of the book the writer is aware. It is an unfor tunate fact
that till a short time ago the University, with the carelessness of
youth, made no attempt to preserve historical materials relating to
itself. There are many phases of its record upon which it has been
hard to accumulate information. Upon some of the most important
questions the oral testimony has been found to be conflicting,
while upon others some de tailed oral testimony available has been
shown so unreliable that it has had to be thrown aside in favor vi
PREFACE of shorter but more accurate Information. The writer has
had to work nearly a thousand miles from the Uni versity, and to
depend upon thecourtesy of correspond ents for much that one on the
spot would easily have obtained. But it is to be hoped that the
volume will inspire further labor in the same field. To a number of
friends who have offered assistance, and especially to President
James, Deans Clark, Greene, Kinley, and Davenport, Mr. George Huff,
Mr. P. L. Windsor, Drs. Powell and Phelps, Professors Forbes,
Talbot, Rolfe, Bicker, Alvord, Zeitlin, White, and Scott, to three
former Trustees, Judge Cunningham, Mr. S. A. Bullard, and Mr. F. M.
McKay, to a number of graduates, as Mr. H. M. Dunlap, Mr. C. A.
Kiler, and Mr. W. A. Heath, and to the editor of this series, the
author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness. Professors Baker and
Stoek have, with many of those named above, read parts of the
proofs Dr. Phelps has furnished much material for the appendices,
and Assistant Dean Warnock, Mr. H. H. Horner, Miss L. 0. White, and
Mr. Lewis Omer have transmitted other material. The author has not,
partly in deference to practice in other volumes in the series,
partly from his sense of the needlessness of it, bur dened his
pages with many footnote references to sources. In many instances
the text itself indicates that the source lies in the reports of
the Board of Trustees, the University catalogues, or the reports to
the State Super intendent of Public Instruction. The files of the
Alumni Quarterly, of the Illini and other student publications,
those of Twin City and Chicago news papers, and the Journals of the
Legislature, have also been drawn upon. It would usually be
undesirable to Indicate oral sources of material. CONTENTS PAGE
PREFACE t v I. TURNER AND THE FOUNDING OF THE UNI VERSITY . 1 II.
BEGINNINGS OF THEUNIVERSITY ... 42 III. YEARS OF DEPRESSION THE
ADMINISTRA TION OF PEABODY 99 IV. AT THE TURNING POINT .... 141 V.
THE UNIVERSITY FINDS ITSELF . . . 153 VI. THE UNIVERSITY AFTER IT
FOUND ITSELF . 210 VII. ADMINISTRATION AND HOUSING OF THE
UNIVERSITY 262 VIII. STUDENTS AND STUDENT LIFE . . . 295 IX.
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND STATE 323 X. CONCLUSION 347
APPENDIX A...
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