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The President is the principal administrative officer of the University and a member of the faculty of each college, school, institute and division.
This unit covers:
2/0 Reports of the President
2/1 John M. Gregory, April 1, 1867 - June 9, 1880 (Effective September 1,1880)
2/2 Selim H. Peabody, July 27, 1880 (Pro tempore) March 9, 1881 - June 10, 1891 (Effective September 1, 1891)
2/3 Thomas J. Burrill, August 7, 1891 - 1894 (Acting) April 1, 1904 - August 26, 1904 (Acting)
2/4 Andrew S. Draper, April 13, 1894 (Took office August 1, 1894) - April 1, 1904
2/5 Edmund J. James, August 26, 1904 - March 3, 1920 (Effective September 1, 1920)
2/6 David Kinley, September 1, 1920 - July 1, 1930
2/7 Harry W. Chase, July 5, 1930 - January 25, 1933 (Effective July 10, 1933)
2/8 Arthur H. Daniels, July 11, 1933 - June 30, 1934 (Acting)
2/9 Arthur C. Willard, July 1, 1934 - June 30, 1946
2/10 George D. Stoddard, July 1, 1946 - August 31, 1953
2/11 Lloyd Morey, September 1, 1953 (Acting) February 1, 1954 - August 31, 1955
2/12 David D. Henry, September 1, 1955 - August 31, 1971
2/13 John E. Corbally, Jr., September 1, 1971 - August 31, 1979
2/14 Stanley O. Ikenberry, September 1, 1979 ?
1. University of Illinois Statutes, July 18, 1979, Section 2, p. 3.
2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 17th Report, August 1, 1894, p. 269.
3. University of Illinois Statutes, July 18, 1979, Section 2, p. 3.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 3-4
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September 1963
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Correspondence received by Andrew S. Draper from trustees Lucy Flower, Laura Evans, Mary Carriel, Francis McKay, Alexander McLean, Julia Smith, Richard Morgan, Nelson Graham, Samuel Bullard and William McKinley on Board affairs; from university presidents Frank Strong, Charles Van Hise, Charles Thwing, William Thompson, Jacob Schurman, George MacLean, Cyrus Northrop, Edmund James, Richard Jesse, William Rainey Harper, G. Stanley Hall, Frank Gunsaulus and William Bryan on university administration, Morrill funds, trustee-president relations, entrance requirements, teacher certification, athletics, hazing, student regulations, curricula, salaries, appropriations, and technical and agricultural education. The correspondence includes letters from Illinois school superintendents, parents, teachers' agencies, interest groups and citizens on the College of Agriculture decline, legislative affairs, invitations to speak, solicitations, fraternities, student discipline, morality on campus, farmer's institutes, placement of graduates, correspondence schools, participation in expositions, university extension, Rhodes scholarships and athletics. Correspondents include Newton Dougherty, Lorado Taft, Jonathan Turner, Henry Dunlap, A. G. Judd, Charles Gibson, B. F. Harris, Gov. John Tanner, Gov. Richard Yates, Charles DeGarmo, Albert True, Frank Vanderlip, Herbert Putnam, Joe Cannon, William Lorimer, Frank Mann, R. T. Crane of Chicago on higher technical education Melvil Dewey on librarian Katherine Sharp, Robert H. Pratt, Indian School Service Supt. on the Carlisle "Indians," A. H. Pattengill, Chairman of Michigan's Athletic Board of Control on athletics, E. C. Ray, Presbyterian Board of Aid Secretary on public vs. sectarian institutions and W. T. Harris, Commissioner of Education, on plans for expansion of his office.