Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 54]

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PEOCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

THIKD Y E A R .

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1. Educational Psychology; Chemistry: Botany. 2. Science of Instruction; Logic; Botany. 3. Special Methods of Instruction; Modern History; Astronomy.

F O U R T H YEAR.

1. School Supervision; Mental Science; Physiology, or Geology. 2. History of Education; Introduction to Philosophy; Zoology. 3. Philosophy of Education; History of Philosophy; Political Economy. I wish to call attention to the fees charged for use of tools and material in the shops. I t was the intention t h a t this should help to pay the constantly growing expenses of t h a t department, which the legislature has steadily refused to assist with any larger aid than was given fifteen years ago, when the number employed there was hardly a fifth of those now at work. But this fee has been a source of dissatisfaction, and I recommend t h a t it should be dropped. The same may be said of the gymnasium fee. But if it is dropped, there must be for a time regular appropriations for apparatus, until the hall becomes fairly stocked, and for the constant deterioration for wear and tear. These fees being removed, the only remaining charge of this nature will be that made for chemicals and material in the chemical laboratory. There has been much dissatisfaction there, because of charges apparently not made to others. If the fee for workshops is removed, ought not a corresponding reduction to be made in the laboratory? This could be done by omitting the charge for gas, which amounts to about $2 per term per student. The military department is again the source of serious irregularity and disturbance. I learn that t h a t matter is to come to your notice from another direction, and I shall not seek to forestall your opinions or judgment by any discussion of the situation here. At the proper time, if it is your pleasure, I have a full statement to make of t h a t affair.

T H E INCOME FROM T H E CONGRESSIONAL ACT COMMONLY MORRILL COLLEGE AID BILL. KNOWN AS T H E

At the September meeting it was known t h a t this bill had become law and t h a t $15,000 would soon fall to the State of Illinois for the use of this University, under the provisions of this law. Information was had in November t h a t the sum of money above named had been sent to the State Treasurer, but our own Treasurer could get no information t h a t it had been received at Springfield, and at the December meeting he had not learned t h a t the money had been so received. Soon after the last meeting was adjourned, I caused inquiry to be made at the Treasury in Washington, and found t h a t a check had been sent to the Treasurer of the State of Illinois, for $15,000, "on account of sales of public lands." This money had been receipted for in the manner usual in such cases, and was in the Treasury. But farther investigation developed the opinion, c dncided in by all the state officers whose opinions were asked, t h a t it could not be drawn out or the Treasury by our Treasurer, except in accordance with the provisions of an appropriation bill duly passed by the General Assembly; and t h a t to make the money available to the University before the first of July next, t h a t is to get the use of it at all, during- the current fiscal year, such an act must have an emergency clause, and be passed by a two-thirds vote of both houses. The Attorney General farther advised t h a t such an act could not be operative beyond the time for which the present legislature has power, t h a t is not beyond the first day of July, 1893.

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