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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

I should not have felt at liberty to leave my classes so frequently had it not been that the assissistant in agriculture was well prepared to take charge of them. A large percentage of my classes is of students taking the one year farmers 1 course. They havemanifested a good degree of interest and made satisfactory progress. Respectfully submitted, G. E. MORROW, Professor of Agriculture. The above reports are respectfully submitted, SELIM H. PEABODY, Regent. UKBANA, March 9,1887.

On leave given by the Board, the Regent presented the following plan for

HONORARY SCHOLARSHIPS.

In accordance with the spirit of Section 9 in the act of the General Assembly organizing theIllinois Industrial University, approved Feb. 28, 1867, it is hereby ordered that Honorary Scholarships be established in the University of Illinois to be filled and occupied in the manner and on theconditions following, viz.: 1. An examination shall be held at the county seat of each county in the State df Illinois which desires to secure an Honorary Scholarship in the University, by the county superintendent of said county, or by a suitable deputy to be named by him, on the first Friday and Saturday of June, 1887. The persons admitted to such examinations shall be residents of the county, fifteen years of age,, and shall have been previously approved by the county superintendent as reasonably "proficient in reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography and history of the United States. Persons already admitted to the University may not be admitted to examination. 2. The questions used in said examination shall have been prepared under the direction of theRegent of the University, and shall be forwaided to the county superintendent in sealed envelopeswith careful instructions as to the times and manner of using them, and the superintendent or his deputy shall return his written statement that such instructions have been fully observed. 3. Immediately after the close of the examination, the answers in the handwriting of the person examined, without note, comment, or correction, shall be collected and sealed up in^a separate envelope for each person examined, and shall be forwarded forthwith to the Regent of tfie University, to be read and passed upon by him, with the aid of such members of the Faculty as he may designate. 4. Each competitor may choose whether he will be examined to enter upon a technical or upon a literary course. In the first case the subjects upon which he shall be examined shall be: Algebra, to and including quadratic equations; geometry, plane, solid and spherical; physiology;, natural philosophy; botany, and English rhetoric and composition, covering such parts of the several subjects as are usually taught in the better public high schools in the State. In the second case the subjects shall be : Algebra and geometry as before, physiology or natural philosophy, and the first four books of Caesar's Commentaries, the four orations of Cicero against Cataline, that for Poet Archias, and that for the Manilian Law, and the first six books of Virgil's iEneid. The two forms of examination shall be made as nearly as possible equivalent in difficulty and in the amount of preparation required. 5. That person in each county whose average standing in this examination shall be highest, shall be entitled to an honorary scholarship in the University, exempt from any fee for tuition or incidental expense. Provided, that a scholarship may not be awarded to any person whose standing in any subject offered for his examination shall be less than 75 upon the scale of 100, or whose general average shall be less than 80 upon the same scale. Other things being equal "the descendants of soldiers or seamen who served in the armies or navies of the United States during the late rebellion 11 shall be preferred. 6. The scholarships awarded as above shall be good for four years and shall not be transferable. The holder of a scholarship shall be deemed to have vacated the same if he shall graduate from the University or take a dismission therefrom. His scholarship shall be forfeited, if he shall be absent after his appointment for one term consecutively without a reason for such absence satisfactory to the Faculty, or for more than one term for any reason; or if he shall have failed to pass a standing of 75 in any two University examinations; provided that in case of any such failure, he may claim and receive a re-examination from his professor with the Regent of the University; or if he shall have accumulated 50 or more demerits for misconduct, or unexcused absence from duty. 7. If, at the examinations provided for in June, no person should secure the scholarship for any county, the Regent and the county superintendent may provide a second examination in the September following. If, before the end of the fall term following the examination, the person receiving the scholarship shall fail to appear and matriculate, or if he shall decline to accept the sanie,. the scholarship shall be given to the next person in order who has passed the examination. If at any other time, or in any other way, a scholarship shall become vacant, or shall be likely to become vacant by the graduation of its incumbent, timely notice shall be given to the county superintendent of the county to which the vacancy shall belong; but no examination to fill the same maybeheld at other times than in June or September, as before provided;;