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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

2. The faculty of the University shall have control of the discipline and studies of the University, subject to the general direction of the board of trustees, and shall make, in t h a t behalf, from time to time, such regulations as it may deem expedient. 3. The faculty of the University shall meet on a fixed day of each week during term time, and at such other times as the regent may deem it necessary to call a special meeting. The order of business at each meeting shall be: 1. Calling the roll of members. 2. Heading the minutes of last meeting. 3. Reports of officers. 4. Reports of committees. 5. Reports from the several colleges. 6. Unfinished business. 7. New and miscellaneous business. 4. The president, vice president and secretary shall have t h e powers and perform the duties usually devolving upon such officers. 5. The following standing committees of the faculty shall be elected annually by the faculty, by ballot, at the first meeting of t h e year, or as soon thereafter as practicable, each committee to hold office until its successor is elected : 1. An executive committee, to consist of the regent, the vice president and the deans. 2. A committee on university extension. 3. A committee on preparatory schools. 4. A committee on advertisement and publications. 5. A committee on military affairs. 6. A committee on athletics. 7. A committee on public exercises. 8. A committee on students' welfare. 9. A committee on library. 10. A committee on museums and collections. 6. The regent shall be chairman of the executive committee, and shall be, ex officio, a member of each other committee, in addition to those members elected. 7. The executive committee shall have all the authority of the faculty itself, ad interim, when the necessity or the dispatch of business requires it, and shall further act or report upon all matters specially referred to it by the faculty; provided t h a t it shall not change any action of the faculty without the consent in writing of at least a majority of the latter, and t h a t all action of the committee ad interim shall be reported to the faculty at its regular meeting. The duties and powers of the other standing committees shall be (1) to originate, consider, and recommend to the faculty, lines of policy and particular measures in their several provinces; and (2) to act upon all matters referred to them by the faculty. 8. The University shall comprise four colleges; the College of Agriculture, the College of Engineering, the College of Science, and t h e College of Literature, and the School of Military Science and the School of A r t and Design. The faculty of each of the several colleges shall consist of t h e regent and of such professors, assistants, and instructors as shall be annually assigned to it by the general faculty. 9. The officers of each college faculty shall be a dean and a secretary, the first to be elected by ballot by the faculty of the University at its first regular meeting, and t h e second to be elected by t h e faculty of the