1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL. 127must needs be proper buildings, adequate equipment, and, tosatisfy the esthetic natures of the students and to provide aplace for the letting off of excessive animal spirits with whichyouth is always largely endowed, it was necessary to beautifythe campus and provide an athletic field. This was the workwhich that kindly benevolent administrator and scholar. Dr.Draper, accomplished. His administration has been termedby a student with a very active imagination, the materialisticera of the university's history. But his work is done, now—and well done—and a new president fills his place with newdemands upon him and new ideals to strive for.The passing of this era is marked by the installation ofPresident James. The time has passed when there was apressing demand for new buildings and more equipment.What the university now needs is to add to the strength ofNATIONAL HISTORY BUILPING—UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.the personnel of its faculty and extend the scope of its alreadybroad field of instruction, so as to become in the truest andfullest sense a university. To accomplish this is one ofPresident James' most cherished ideals. He must have hadthis thought in mind when speaking of the state university,he said in his inaugural address: "it will embrace notmerely the old fashioned learned professions, law and medicine.It will prepare for engineering and architecture in alltheir various ramifications. It will go further. It will in itsgeneral faculty of arts and science, be a professional schoolto prepare men and women for teaching in secondary andhigher schools. It will thus give a scientific training to theteachers of our high schools such as few of them possess atpresent; and no great number will ever obtain except throughthe enlarged and improved state university. It will prepare