paign County offered a large brick building in the suburbs of Urbana, erected for a seminary and nearly completed, about 1,000 acres of land, and $100,000 in county bonds. To this the Illinois Central Railroad added $50,000 in freight.

The state has from time to time appropriated various sums for permanent improvements, as well as for maintenance. The present value of the entire property and assets is estimated at $2,800,000.

The institution was incorporated February 28, 1867, under the name of the Illinois Industrial University, and placed under the control of a Board of Trustees, constituted of the Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the President of the State Board of Agriculture, as ex-officio members, and twenty-eight citizens appointed by the Governor. The chief executive officer was called Regent, and was made an ex-officio member of the Board and presiding officer both of the Board of Trustees and of the Faculty.

In 1873 the Board of Trustees was reorganized, the number of appointed members being reduced to nine and of ex-officio members to two-the Governor and the President of the State Board of Agriculture. In 1887 a law was passed making membership elective, at a general state election, and restoring the Superintendent of Public Instruction as an ex-officio member. There are, therefore, now three ex-officio and nine elective members. Since 1873 the President of the Board has been chosen by the members from among their own number for a term of one year.

The University was opened to students March 2, 1868. The number of students enrolled at this time was about fifty, and the Faculty consisted of the Regent and three professors. During the first term another instructor was added, and the number of students increased to 77—all young men.

During the first term instruction was given in algebra,

geometry, physics, history, rhetoric, and Latin. Work on the farm and gardens, or about the buildings, was at first compulsory for all students. In March of the next year, however, compulsory labor was discontinued, save when it was made to serve as a part of class instruction. A chemical laboratory was fitted up during the autumn of 1868. Botanical laboratory work began the following year. In January, 1870, a mechanical shop was fitted up with tools and machinery, and here was begun the first shop instruction given in any American university. During the summer of 1871 the Wood Shops and Testing Laboratory, burned on June 9, 1900, were erected and equipped for students' shop work in both wood and iron.

By vote, March 9, 1870, the Trustees admitted women as students. During the year 1870-71 twenty-four availed themselves of the privilege. Since that time they have constituted from one-sixth to one-fifth of the total number of students.

According to the original state law, the usual diplomas and degrees could not be granted by the University, but certificates showing the studies pursued and the attainments in each were given instead. The certificates proved unsatisfactory to the holders, and in 1877 the legislature gave the University authority to confer degrees and issue diplomas.

In 1885 the legislature changed the name of the institution to the "University of Illinois.'

In 1890 the Congress of the United States made further appropriations for the endowment of the institutions founded under the act of 1862. Under this enactment each such college or university received the first year $15,ooo, the second $16,000, and thereafter was to receive $1,000 per annum additional to the amount of the preceding year, until the amount reached $25,000, which sum was to be paid yearly thereafter.

May 1, 1896, the Chicago College of Pharmacy, founded in 1859, became the School of Pharmacy of the

University of Illinois. Its building is located at Michigan Boulevard and Twelfth Street, Chicago.

Pursuant to action of the Board of Trustees, taken December 8, 1896, the School of Law was organized, and opened September 13, 1897. The course of study covered two years, in conformity with the existing requirements for admission to the bar of Illinois. In the following November, however, the supreme court of the state announced rules relating to examinations for admission to the bar which made three years of study necessary, and the course of study in the Law School was immediately rearranged on that basis. On February 9, 1900, the name of the School of Law was changed, by vote of the Board of Trustees, to College of Law.

Negotiations looking to the affiliation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Chicago, with the University, which had been going on for several years, were concluded by the Board of Trustees, March 9, 1897. According to the agreement made, the College of Physicians and Surgeons became on April 21, 1897, the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois. The College is located at Congress and Honore Streets, Chicago.

In 1897, the matter of the reorganization of the University Library was considered by the Board of Trustees, with the result that the School of Library Economy which had been established in 1893 at the Armour Institute of Technology, in Chicago, was transferred to the University, and the Director of that school was appointed librarian of the University Library. In accordance with these plans the State Library School was opened at the University in September, 1897.

Pursuant to action taken by the Board of Trustees March 12, 1901, a School of Dentistry was organized as a department of the College of Medicine. The School was opened October 3, 1901. The name was changed to College of Dentistry April 27, 1905.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

The land occupied by the University and its several cepartments embraces about 220 acres.

The Agricultural Building, erected at a cost of $150,000, consists of four separate structures, built around an open court and connected by corridors. The main building contains offices, class rooms, and laboratories for the departments of agronomy, animal husbandry, dairy husbandry, horticulture, and veterinary science; offices of the State Entomologist; the chemical laboratory of the Experiment Station; commodious administration rooms; an assembly room with a seating capacity of 500, and on each floor a fireproof vault for records. The other three buildings are each two stories high; one is for dairy manufactures, one for farm machinery, and one for veterinary science and stock judging. These buildings are of stone and brick, roofed with slate, and contain, all told, 113 rooms and a total floor space of nearly two acres. adjacent glass structure serves the departments of agronomy and horticulture. There are, in addition to these buildings, a veterinary hall, three dwellings, three large barns, and a greenhouse.

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The Armory, which has a clear floor space of 15,000 square feet in one grand hall, gives ample space for company drill and for large audiences upon special occasions.

The Astronomical Observatory is in the form of the letter T, the stem of which extends toward the south. The equatorial room, surmounted by the dome, is at the intersection of the stem and bar of the T. Besides the equatorial room the Observatory contains four transit rooms, a clock room, a recitation room, and a study.

The Central Heating Station is a brick building, 55 by 120 feet. It contains boilers of 1800 horse power, which furnish steam for heating and power purposes for the buildings on the campus. An annex contains the pump room and the stock room. The pipes of the heating sys

tem and the wires for power and light are carried from the Central Heating Station to the several buildings through brick tunnels. The length of tunnel thus far constructed is 3,200 feet.

The Chemical Laboratory is a three-story building, the ground plan of which is shaped like the letter E. The extreme dimensions are 230 feet along the front and 116 feet along the wings. The middle rear wing contains the lecture amphitheater, which will seat 350. The end wings contain the large general laboratories. The central part of the building is occupied by offices, museum, class and seminary rooms, supply rooms, etc., and a number of special rooms for research work. There is a well-lighted basement, which contains the heating and ventilating plant, and rooms for assaying and metallurgy. In this building are also located the offices and equipment of the State Water Survey and the State Geological Survey.

The Electrical Engineering Laboratory is a brick building two stories high, 100 feet by 50 feet, with a wing 90 feet by 50 feet. A basement under the main part contains a large storage battery, and supply rooms; the main floor is the laboratory proper, containing the electrical apparatus described elsewhere; the second floor has recitation and computing rooms, the two photometers, and an office. The wing contains the automatic telephone exchange of the University, and the light and power plant of 200 kilowatts capacity.

Engineering Hall has a frontage of 200 feet, a depth of 76 feet on the wings, and 138 feet in the center. The first story contains the laboratories of the department of physics, the drafting room, and one recitation room of the department of electrical engineering, the masonry laboratories, instrument rooms, and workshop of the department of civil engineering. The second story contains the lecture room and the preparation rooms of the department of physics, the recitation and drawing rooms, cabinets,