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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

Thirty-five dollars was appropriated from current funds for repairs and tuning the piano in chapel. The board then adjourned to meet at 9 a. m., Wednesday, July 5, 1893, at the University Hotel, Chicago.

N. W. W. L. PILLSBURY, GRAHAM, President,

Secretary.

ADJOURNED SESSION, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, JULY 5 AND 6, 1893.

The board of trustees of the University of Illinois met in adjourned session at the University Hotel, 17 Congress street, Chicago, at 9 o'clock a. m., July 5, 1893. There were present Messrs. Armstrong, Bullard, Graham, McKay, McLean, Morgan, Morrison, Raab, and Raymond; absent, Governor Altgeld and Messrs., Bryant and Gore. The minutes of the last meeting were approved. The board discussed . at some length t h e regency question and adjourned to meet at 7 o'clock p. m.

EVENING SESSION.

The board met pursuant to adjournment. The committee on instruction reported verbally, recommending t h e appointment of David Kinley, P H . D . , of Madison, Wis., to be assistant professor of political economy and social science, at a salary of $1,800 a year, and the report was approved. On motion of Mr. Armstrong, it was voted t h a t instead of a chair of the French language and literature there be established a chair of the Romance languages. The committee on instruction reported recommending t h a t J. D. Bruner, A.B., of Baltimore, be appointed assistant professor of the Romance languages, at a salary of $1,800 a year; t h a t Frank M. McMurry, P H . D . , of Normal, 111., be appointed professor of pedagogics, at a salary of $2,000 a year; and t h a t Edward G. Howe, of Washington Heights, 111., be appointed principal of the preparatory department, at a salary of $1,800 a year, and the report was adopted. On motion of Mr. Raab, it was voted t h a t the committee on instruction consult with the regent and the deans of the several college faculties with regard to the constitution of the faculty of the University, and report thereon to the board at its next meeting. The committee on instruction reported, recommending t h a t Mr. H. E. Summers be appointed assistant professor in human physiology and vertebrate zoology, at a salary of $1,500 a year, $1,200 of which should be paid from the university funds and $300 from the funds of t h e State Laboratory of Natural History; t h a t James M. White, B.S., be appointed assistant professor of architecture, at a salary of $1,300 a year; t h a t William D. Pence, B.S., be appointed assistant professor of civil engineering, at a salary of $1,200 a year; t h a t Mr. George W. Parker be appointed instructor in wood working and foreman, at a salary of $1,380 a year, t h e same as he has been receiving. Also t h a t the following named persons be appointed for the ensuing college year of ten months from September 1, 1893 : Miss Edith A. Shattuck, assistant in drawing, at a salary of $700; Mr. T. A. Clark, B.L., instructor in English, at a salary of $1,000; Mr. C. D. McLane, B.S., instructor in general engineering drawing, at a salary of $1,000; Mr. C. B. Clark, assistant in machine shop, at a salary of $750; Mr. William E. Sandford, P H . C , instructor in pharmacy, at a salary of $750; Alice M. Barber, M.S., assistant in physiology, at a salary of $600; Herman S Piatt, A. B., assistant in modern languages, at a salary of $800; Mr. Her-