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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

COMMISSIONS IN ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARD.

[June 6,

David Arthur Bear John Douglas Blocher Burton French Elmer Logan Garnett Newton David Gaston Prank Stanley Hadfield Prank Hamilton Kneeland

Neil McMillan, J r . Howard Bruce Murphey Raebern Henry Post Jesse Eoy Powell Augustus Joseph Eeef Claude Winfred Rich Carroll Carson Wiley

I also transmit the recommendations of the Council of Administration and of the University Senate that honorary degrees be conferred as follows: William Arhon Henry, Doctor of Agriculture. Lincoln Bush, Doctor of Engineering. William Preeman Myrick Goss, Doctor of Engineering. John Williston Cook, Doctor of Laws. William Edward Quine, Doctor of Laws. Simon Newton Dexter North, Doctor of Laws. Prank White, Doctor of Laws. Willis Joshua Bailey, Doctor of Laws. The whole number of degrees conferred this year will be 640.

PACULTY APPOINTMENTS.

I recommend Paculty appointments as follows: Deans. 1. That the Deans now in office be re-elected at the same salaries as paid last year, except that the Dean of Undergraduates be paid $3,000.00, and the Dean of the College of Law be paid $3,000.00 upon the understanding that his entire time shall be given to the College.

The recommendations with regard to Deans except the Dean of Undergraduates were adopted. It was voted that the salary of the Dean of Undergraduates remain as at present.

Professors. 1. That Frederick Green be appointed Professor of Law at $2,000 a year. 2. That Assistant Professor George H. Meyer of the German Department be granted leave of absence for foreign study at half pay next year, and that Assistant Professor Neil C. Brooks be placed in charge of the Department temporarily, and that his salary be $1,400.00. 3. That the salary of Charles Tobias Knipp, Assistant Professor of Physics, be $1,600.00. 4. That Ployd Eowe Watson, Instructor in Physics, be made Assistant Professor of Physics and his salary be $1,300.00. 5. That the resignations of Seth Justin Temple and Cyrus Daniel McLane, Assistant Professors in the Department of Architecture, be accepted to take effect September 1, 1904. 6. T h a t the time of Professor Newton A. Wells, which has heretofore been divided between the departments of Architecture and Art and Design, be hereafter given wholly to the Department of Architecture, and that his title be Professor of Architectural Decoration, and his salary $2,100*00. 7. That the salary of Professor Edwin G. Dexter be $2,200.00. 8. That Psychology be made a separate department with Stephen S. Colvin as Associate Professor in charge of it, and that his salary be $1,500.00.