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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

The following are recommended for the full certificate of completion of thirty-six or more University studies:

Columbus Austin Bowsher. • U. J. Lincoln Peoples. Edith Louisa Clark. Philemon A. Schaefer. G-ustavus Adolphus Hanssen. Fred Worthley Stevens. Walter Isham Manny.

To the following the Governor of the state has granted commissions hy brevet as Captains in the Illinois National Guard:

James Barr. Samuel Day Bawden. Frank Henry Clark. James Francis Clarkson. Robert James Cooke. Clarence Lincoln Crabbs. John Franklin Fisher. Hugh Hazleton. Frank John Tresise. Fred Walter Waterman. James McClaren White. George Eldorado Wilkinson. INSTRUCTORS.

The recommendations following are made because of the worth of successful teachers, the needs of the several departments, and the adjustment of courses, as will be explained in the several cases. I have to advise: 1. T h a t the course of civil engineering be extended to include the following subjects: the consideration of roads, streets, and pavements, water supply and hydraulics, sewers and ° sewerage. I recommend t h a t Assista n t Professor Arthur 1 T Talbot be made a full professor with the title S. of Professor of Municipal Engineering. I t might not be desirable in the assignment of subjects to draw lines too sharply between this chair and t h a t of civil engineering occupied by Professor Baker. The titles will be sufficiently distinctive and the work may be adjusted between the professors as convenience may require. 2. As this will draw Professor Talbot away from part or all of the mathematical work which he has heretofore done, while the classes in t h a t line of subjects are much crowded and demand divison, I recommend t h a t Mr. George W. Myers be made Assistant Professor of Mathematics, to take such classes as may be assigned. 3. The work of Assistant Professor Arthur W. Palmer, now in charge of the school of chemistry, has been successful and satisfactory. I recommend t h a t he be appointed to the grade of full professor with the title of Professor of Chemistry. 4. The declination of Professor Comstock to return to the University a t the end of the long vacation last year, left the work of physics unexpectedly without provision. Mr. Samuel W. Stratton had been my own assistant when t h a t department was under my instruction, and I felt confident t h a t the work would not suffer if intrusted to him. The gear's work has proved t h a t the selection was a safe one. Mr. Stratton is thoroughly competent, energetic and inventive. I recommend t h a t he be appointed Assistant Professor of Physics, and t h a t his sphere of work be enlarged from what it has hitherto covered. 5. This appointment will withdraw Mr. Stratton from the work of assistant in architecture. With the adjustments t h a t will be offered for your approval, there will be in this place a full line of work for one instructor, pertaining partly to the school of architecture, and partly to the whole college of engineering. For this work I recommend Mr. James M. White, a graduate of the school of architecture of the present class. 6. For the place of instructor in mathematics, which will be vacated by the promotion of Mr. Myers, I recommend the appointment of Mr. Samuel D. Bawden, a graduate of the school of mechanical engineering.