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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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Nothing further has been done in raising funds for the projected building for the Christian associations; but the work will be vigorously pushed, and there is reasonable hope t h a t it will succeed.

N E W INSTRUCTORS.

Under t h e second division of vacation activity, the chief accomplishments have been in filling the vacancies in the corps of instruction. Apparently gratifying results have been attained, and the places have all been filled. However, within a few days Mr. C. L. Cory, assistant in physics and electrical engineering, has received a very flattering offer to go elsewhere for the same work. Under all t h e circumstances and the pressure of time, I have undertaken to find an acceptable substitute, and have probably succeeded in the person of Albert Louis Kuehmsted, who, however, cannot be here until the 14th or 15th inst. This action is of course subject to your revision, and your direction in t h e matter is solicited. As indicating the strenuous endeavor to fill, in the best manner possible, the vacancies existing when you last assembled in regular meeting, it may be stated t h a t the persons newly selected for service here are graduates of the following remarkable list of well-known institutions of learning: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Berlin, Cornell and Purdue Universities, the state universities of Michigan, Kansas and of Illinois, Stevens' Institute, Dartmouth College, Bryn Mawr College, Monmouth College and Western College (Iowa). This certainly shows extensive inquiry and a determination to secure the best available talent for the work to be done. Most of the appointees are teachers of experience, with achieved reputations in their specialties. All counted, there are fifteen new names to be inserted in the list of professors and instructors, against nine withdrawn. The increase i s : One in English literature, one in athletics, one in agriculture, one in mechanics and engineering, one in architectural shop and one in music. Besides these there are two fellows to whom classes are assigned, one in modern languages and one in physiology. There is an urgent demand for still further assistance in two or three subjects, which may be secured doubtless from advanced students, and for which a small assignment will be asked. As matters now stand there is an increase of $3,950 in the salary account over t h a t of last year, including in the latter $4,000 for the professorships of mechanical engineering and psychology. Eight hundred dollars of this increase is due to an increase of certain salaries, the remainder to additional teaching force. The total salary account as now provided for t h e year (exclusive of regent) is $59,942.50.

BY-LAWS OF T H E FACULTY.

The State law prescribes t h a t the faculty of t h e University shall consist of the chief instructors in each of the several departments. (Act 1867, Section 10.) The constitution of the faculty, as at present organized under your authority, is according to the following r u l e : "The faculty of the University shall consist of the regent and all the resident professors, and of such assistants as have the chief charge of distinct schools. I t s officers shall consist of the regent as president, ex officio, and of a vice president and a secretary, to be chosen annually by ballot, at the first regular meeting in September." Seeking to adjust the matters concerning the organization of the faculty and t h e powers and duties thereof to existing circumstances and requirements, this body presents for your approval the by-laws and rules herewith submitted: 1. The faculty of the University shall consist of the regent and all the resident professors, and of such assistants as have independent charge of departments of University instruction. I t s officers shall consist of t h e regent as president, ex officio, and of a vice president and a secretary, to be chosen annually by ballot, at the first regular meeting in September.