Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION. 133 DEPARTMENT OF INSTRUCTION. SELIM H. PEABODY, P H . D., LL. D., REGENT. To the Trustees of the University of Illinois : GENTLEMEN —I beg leave to present the following as the customary annual review of the work of the University of Illinois, in its educational aspect, supplemented by a series of special reports from the professors in charge of their various departments. I n both the respects named, the condition of affairs is healthful and the outlook promising. The membership for the year will be nearly as large as has ever been reported, with a larger proportion of University students and a correspondingly less number of preparatory students. The completion of the twentieth year since the inauguration of the Illinois Industrial University makes the following statistics worthy to be recorded: Men. Women. Total. The whole number of students matriculated has been 1818 406 2,224 Whole number graduated 403 107 510 The number who entered the preparatory department has been 1,232, of whom 437 afterwards matriculated. The total number of persons who have studied at the University (2224+799) is 3023. THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE continues its work under the immediate care of Professors Morrow, Burrill and Mcintosh, aided by assistant Hunt, and by the whole corps of scientific instructors of the University. As heretofore, the largest part of the agricultural students come for the shorter, or farmer's course. The increased demand for trained agricultural scientists, in the newly organized experiment stations, and for instructors in agricultural schools will, it is believed, stimulate a larger number of young men to take the longer and more thorough agricultural full course. A careful examination of the reports of
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