Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 7]

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INTRODUCTORY.

To His Excellency JOHN M. PALMER, Governor of Illinois: In accordance with my duties as Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University, I submit herewith their Third Annual Eeport, including the Proceedings of the Board of Trustees and of their Executive Committee, and Keports of the Agricultural Lectures and Discussions held at the University, at Centralia and at Eockford, during the past year. The Treasurer gives a full financial exhibit on pages 85, 86 and 87, covering the year of the report. During the year covered by this report, as may be seen by reference to the circular and catalogue, 8 professors, 2 non-resident professors, 5 teachers and assistants of professors, and 4 assistants on the farm and in the garden and shop, have been employed; 180 students are enumerated on the catalogue, representing 46 of the 102 counties of Illinois, and 8 other States. Classified according to the studies pursued, 61 are in the Agricultural Course, 49 in the Elective, 43 in the Mechanical, 19 in the Military, and 8 in that of Civil Engineering. The current academic year—no report of which is included in the following pages—has opened under very hopeful auspices. The number of students is increased to over 200, representing 50 counties of Illinois, and 7 other States; and the single building used for dormitories, recitation rooms and cabinets, is already crowded to overflowing. Students are occupying the basement rooms, in the want of better, at some risk of health. Thirteen teachers are obliged to make the best shift they can, with 8 recitation rooms, so limited in their capacity that some of the larger classes must recite in installments, and professors are compelled