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ARMOUR AND LEWIS UNITE |
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The Beginnings of IIT |
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| Armour Institute of Technology and
Lewis Institute, each with nearly fifty years of honorable record, have
entered into an agreement to combine to form the Illinois
Institute of Technology. In the new organization, the backgrounds and
the reputations of the two component colleges are recognized by the use of
the names Armour College of Engineering, for the division of engineering,
and Lewis College of Science, for the division of science and arts. The union results in the formation of a center of technological education having about 7,000 students in day and evening classes, the largest school of its kind. Alumni and former students number more than 70,000. The desirability of this step, the most important in the history of Armour and Lewis since their foundation, was considered carefully and at length by the trustees of the two schools, and the plan for consolidation was adopted by unanimous vote. Representative groups of Armour and Lewis alumni, from classes graduated as far back as 1899, have voted unanimously for resolutions of approval. During the school year now in progress, there will be little change in programs already under way but study will be given to the working out of details in accordance with the general principles that have been decided upon. In September of next year the consolidation will take effect, but for a while it will be necessary to operate both the Armour and Lewis plants. Complete development of the plan contemplates the acquisition of a new, well-planned campus, conveniently situated. |
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| Page last updated on May 17, 2000. |
