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1896.]

PROCEEDINGS OP BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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6. In August last Mr. Edwin Hall Pierce was, by your authority, appointed Instructor of the Violin and Conductor of the Military Band, at a salary of $80 per month for ten months from September 1st. Tour approval is requested. 7. In August Mr. Joseph Cullen Blair was, by your authority, appointed Assistant Horticulturist, with rank of Instructor in Horticulture, at a salary of $1,000 per annum, one-half to be paid by the University and one-half by the Agricultural Experiment Station. Your approval is requested. 8. In June last Ernest C. Klipstein was appointed Instructor in Architecture, but declined the appointment. I recommended the appointment of Seth Justin Temple to the position, at a salary of $80 per month for ten months from September 1st. Following is a statement of his career: Mr. Temple is a graduate in architecture from Columbia University, New York, in 1892; Instructor in Architecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, for two years; had the Columbian Fellowship in Architecture in 1885 and spent nearly two years traveling and studying in Europe. He is very highly recommended by Professor W. R. Ware, of Columbia University. 9. In July last Harry Keeler, B. S., was, by your authority, appointed Assistant in Chemistry, at a salary of $50 per month for ten months from September 1st. Your approval is asked. 10. In July last William Charles Brenke, B. S., was, by your authority, appointed Assistant in Mathematics, at a salary of $70 per month for ten months from September 1st. Your approval is requested. 11. It has become necessary to provide an additional Instructor in German. Professor Rhoades and Mr. Smith each have four classes and in most of them there are more students than can be instructed advantageously. The demands are likely to grow greater rather than less during the year. I therefore recommend that the President be allowed to engage an additional Instructor at not more than $70 per month for the remainder of the yeai. 12. That the title of Walter Howe Jones be that of Professor of Music; that the title of Miss Adeline Whitney Rowley be Instructor in Vocal Music; that the title of Charles Nelson Cole, of the Preparatory School, be Instructor in Latin and Greek; that the title of Reuben S Douglass, of the Preparatory School, be Instructor in Mathematics; the changes in title to be without change of saiary.

A. S. DRAPER, President.

T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s of t h e foregoing p a p e r were, on motion of Mr. M c L e a n , approved. - '

POSTOFFJCES.

To the Board of Trustees: There is considerable confusion, and I think some harm, arising out of the fact that there are two postoffices near the University, through wrhich we receive our mail. Persons connected with the University, living in the adjacent cities and sympathizing with the local feeling of rivalry which exists between them, frequently seek to promote the interests of one or the other by the exclusive announcement that one or the other postoffice is the postoffice of the University. In my judgment it would be well for the Board of Trustees to give direction in the premises. While the University is within the corporate and geographical limits of the city of Urbana, it is, in fact, as convenient to one city as to the other. While there is a free delivery of mail through the Urbana office, it will always be necessary, in the interest of expedition, to receive mail through the Champaign office, for the University has become so extensively associated with the name of the latter city that it will never be possible for us to prevent mail matter being- addressed to us at that office, and nearly as much time and inconvenience is experienced in the forwarding of mail through the regular channel from Champaign to Urbana and thence to the University as would be experienced by sending it around by Chicago or St. Louis. Moreover, it seems to me that there is a certain advantage to be