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UNIVERSITY

OF

ILLINOIS.

I present herewith the list of professors and instructors for your annual consideration and approval, with the usual detailed report of the work of the past term : The period for which Assistant Professor Arthur T. Woods, U. S. N . , was detailed for service here comes to a close, and he is ordered back to the regular duties of his profession. Professor Woods has been with us four years, and has performed the duties assigned him in the department of mechanical engineering with rare skill, tact and success. For the good of the school with which he has been connected, we could wish that he would resign from the navy and cast his lot permanently with us. I request that you will enter upon your records such a recognition of Professor Woods's services as they so well merit, and communicate it to his superiors at Washington. Anticipating the vacancy which this removal creates, I have been in communication with several persons, but have no recommendation ready. Lieut. H. H. Sargent, 2d Cavalry, U. S. A., has been compelled, on account of the continued ill health of his wife, to ask a relief from his detail for special duty at this University, The department has granted his request, and has ordered him back to his regiment. I much regret the necessity which has taken him from us, as the year's service has shown him to be a prudent and useful officer. No steps have yet been taken to secure a successor. The question as to how best to secure an efficient woman in our educational force is still open. Circumstances, which at the time seemed beyond our control, have left us for the past year without such an officer. Without attempting to make any recommendation, I present the subject as one needing careful attention. It is my purpose to present a full discussion of the relations of women to the University at a later meeting. I present a list of persons recommended by the Faculty for degrees and certificates to be awarded at the commencement, and of those who have been named to the Governor for brevet commissions in the State militia.

LIST OF GRADUATES.

College of Engineers—DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE.

School of Mechanical Engineering— John B. Blake, Ervin Dryer, Charles W. Henson, Clarence A. Lloyde r Henry M. Lyman, Grant W. Spear. School of Civil E n g i n e e r i n g William Barclay, Edward I. Can tine, Mark Fargusson, Phil A. Goodwin. School of Mining Engineering— Herbert B. Williams. College of Natural Science—DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE. School of Chemistry— Percival L. Clark, Mark Powers, Bedros Tatarian.

School of Natural HistoryBruce Fink, Walter R Mitchell, Merton B. Waite. College of Literature and Science—DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LETTERS. School of English and Modern Languages — Grant Gregory, Albert C. Moore, Mary H. Williamson. Certificates for Elective Courses— Ida Eiseumayer, Angelina Gayman, Frank M. Gilbert, Rudolph Z. Gill. Edward W. Goldschmidt, Edward S. Johnson, Frank B. Long, Albert L. Richards, John I. Rinaker, Jr., Horace Taylor.