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tion to such endowments which Section 7, as quoted above, directs may be prescribed for the admission of such endowments; so that the alumni, students, and friends of the University may solicit endowments for special purposes, as provided. Your petitioners also respectfully ask that the Trustees will, at a convenient day, prepare a paper setting forth your ideas upon the subject of this memorial, and submit the same at your June meeting, 1886, that we may know your views and be prepared to act with you in the matter. Lastly, we understand that progress will be slow, and that it will require years to mature and develop a successful plan of endowment. Believing that your honorable body already concurs in the views we have stated, and hoping that the subject may have your careful consideration,this memorial is presented And your memorialists will ever pray. Eespectfully submitted, C. B. GIBSON, President Chicago Club, University of Illinois. CHICAGO, March 6,1886.

P Trustee McLean moved that the above communication be placed on file, and that a committee of three be appointed to confer with the club, which motion was seconded #nd carried. Trustees McLean, Bennett, and Follansbee were, appointed as such committee. It was moved and carried that the Begent and President of the Board be added to the committee on the petition of the alumni. A communication from L. Franklin, Secretary of the Illinois State Teachers' Association, was then presented and read, as follows :

BELVIDEEE, I I I . , Jan. 25,1886.

Hon. S. M. Millard, President Board of Trustees, University of Illinois: The following resolutions were passed by the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Illinois btate Teachers'Association, held at Springfield December last: Besolved, That we desire to see a chair of Pedagogy established in the University of Illinois at an early day, and that we request the Trustees of the University to take measures to establish such department, and pledge them our co-operation in securing any legislation which may be necessary to this end. Resolved, That the Secretary of the association is hereby instructed to communicate this resolution to the President of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois State University. L. FKANKLIN, Secretary.

Trustee Earle then offered the following resolution:

Resolved. That this Board receives very cordially the request of the Illinois State Teachers' Association for the establishment of a chair of Pedagogy in the University of Illinois, and that it will make the subject one of serious consideration at the earliest reasonable opportunity.

Which resolution was seconded by Trustee McLean, and unanimously carried by the Board. The Board then proceeded to the election of the Executive Committee. On motion of Trustee McLean, Trustees S. M. Millard, John T. Pearman and Charles Bennett were unanimously elected members of the Executive Committee. Adjourned at 1:30 P. M. until 2 o'clock P. M. Two o'clock P. M.—Board reassembled at the office of the President of the Board, No. 115 Dearborn street. Dr. S. H, Peabody, Begent, appeared before the Board and presented his resignation as Begent, as follows: Ind.—7