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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS.

A most remarkable movement among t h e students has resulted in securing pledges from among themselves of $11,640 towards a new building for the young people's Christian associations. This notable and laudable effort is worthy of t h e highest commendation and also of t h e heartiest and most substantial support. The most serious loss of t h e year comes through the withdrawal of Professor Butler to accept an appointment elsewhere, with an increase of pay and of privilege. He has been a member of t h e Faculty here for six years, and has won the highest esteem of all through his admirable natural and acquired qualifications for his professional work and for the varied requirements of an inspiring leader of young men and women. For him personally there are many congratulations to be offered; for t h e University there can only be regret at his departure. Miss Clara Maud Kimball, instructor in music, also withdraws, a t least for t h e time, and expects to spend a year or more abroad. She has conducted her departments with much energy and efficiency, and has made lasting friends of all her associates among teachers and students.

ATTENDANCE.

There have been enrolled during t h e year 583 students—64 more than last year, which was then t h e highest number in the history of t h e institution. Of the number present this year 163 are classed as preparatory, but owing to our rule of advancing no one to the freshman rank until t h e last one of the preparatory studies is made up, this number represents a greater proportion than the facts really warrant. Many of these students have actually done the work of the freshman year, or nearly so, and next year will be in sophomore classes. Ranked by rather arbitrary rules, t h e numbers of the University classes are as follows: Freshman 184, sophomore 101, junior 57, senior 46, resident graduates 8. In all these except t h e last something t h e same should be said as has been of t h e preparatory class, i. e., there are in fact a considerable number in t h e freshman and sophomore classes who more nearly belong in the next higher class. The total number of matriculated students since t h e beginning is now 2,762, and the whole number of graduates, including t h e present senior class, is 733.

D E G R E E S A N D COMMISSIONS.

The class of 1892 now has 42 members who are herewith recommended by t h e Faculty for degrees as named, and authority to confer these degrees is respectfully asked.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEEEING. Degree of Bachelor of Science.

Course of Mechanical Winslow Howard Foster, William Alexander Martin, Course of Civil William Davis Barber, John King Barker, Frank Beckwith, John Waterbury Crissey, Zebulon Foster,: Andrew Wallace Gates, Course of Parke Tunis Burrows, Charles William Cross, Edmund Bailey Funston, Charles Alexander Gunn, I I

Engineering. William George Miller, William Snodgrass, Jr.

Engineering. Roy Allen Mather, John Williams Page, Edward Louis Scheidenhelm, Benjamin Asaph Wait, Jr., Frank Robert Williamson. Architecture. Ralph Warner Hart, Walter Clarence Harvey, Cyrus Daniel McLane.