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Excerpt from Obelisk, 1968, Vol. 51 This is Southern Illinois University, a going, growing concern: its chief function is building enlightened, crit ical minds from the ability and potential of each student enrolled here. How it pursued this task this year is the subject matter of the 1965 obelisk. Standing alone on a hill south of Carbondale in 1887 was one austere building called Main. Today it is called Old Main and grouped with it, around it and far beyond it are 76 other major buildings comprising the physical plant of Southern Illinois University. With an assessed valuation of over $100 million, Southern lies on sprawling acres 60 miles south of the population center of the United States. Construction alone totaled $9 mil lion this year and the physical plant increased by an estimated $515 million. An enrollment increase of 15 per cent pushed Southern's total to last fall quarter of these were enrolled at Carbondale) making siu the twenty-first largest university in the nation. This is growth in the raw; and the end is nowhere in sight. The plight of Southern now is that of all higher education. Out of expansion and change must emerge an organized, efficient institution administering not to the few but to the many, teaching not what to think but how to think, and turning out not numbers but individuals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical work