Abstract

The University of Illinois

The article provides information on the book "Illinois," by Allan Nevins. This is the first history of the University of Illinois, and the first volume on a State institution in American College and University series, in, which Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, and Vassar are now represented. The University of Illinois has been fortunate in the first historian of her remarkable career. Portraying his alma mater with the insight of a son and the dispassionateness of a stranger, Nevins has made a book which, while of peculiar interest, no doubt, to Illinoisians, holds its subject steadily at the level of all who are concerned with higher public education. In his concluding chapters he vividly pictures the University in its latest phase of prosperity, and in compact tabular views presents those facts which an Illinoisian likes to submit to the Easterner who has yet to learn that the State University is not in Chicago.