Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 197]

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UNIVERSITY

OF

ILLINOIS.

of its best material. The summer vacation is a poor time in which t o look for teachers, and especially is it then too late to secure readily professors of the requisite qualifications to take charge of departments. Such men aue then already engaged. Those not employed by the middle of June are not usually the ones desired by you. The time of beginning service should remain the first of September, as heretofore; but t h e suggestion here made is t h a t all appointments be considered early in the academic year. There is now open a professorship of history. No good reason seems to exist against making an appointment to this chair at t h e present meeting, provided a proper nomination can now be made. If this cannot now be done, t h e necessary instructions should be given to prevent injurious delay in the matter. I t pains me to transmit herewith a communication from Professor Snyder. No words of mine can express the unestimated and inestimable value of his long years of devotion and services to the University. His labors have never been stinted by the routine requirements of his assigned duties, neither has his personal gain been consulted when t h e interests of the University could be advanced. Money alone does not pay for such service, and you will agree t h a t this remuneration has not been great. His communication will have the kindest reception by you.

COURSES OF STUDY AND CATALOGUE.

I submit herewith several new courses of study which have been offered in departments t h a t have been organized or reorganized during this collegiate year, on account of the appointment of new instructors. Should they meet with your approval they will find their place in t h e next issue of the annual catalogue. I t is very desirable t h a t the catalogue should be published earlier in the year than has been usual with us. The new catalogue has ordinarily made its appearance shortly before commencement day, but sometimes, through a little unforeseen delay, not until after the students have dispersed for the summer vacation. I t may just as well be compiled through t h e winter, and there seems to be no good reasm why it should not be printed as soon after the opening of t h e spring term as the lists of students can be completed. Never before in the history of the University have so many individual calls for the catalogues been received as for t h e last one, and, in consequence, though large to begin with, the edition is nearly exhausted and new ones will be needed as early as possible to meet the demand. What is now desired is the proper reference of t h e matter to your committee on publications.

SUM3IER SCHOOL.

The faculty has considered the matter of holding a summer school at the University and recommends t h a t a four weeks' session be provided for, beginning June 20th, and t h a t the announcements be made in t h e name of the University and through the regular channels. As this is intended as a university, not a private, enterprise, the opinion is held t h a t instructors should receive pay, corresponding to the service engaged, at about the usual rate for university instruction. T h e rate of about [one-tenth the regular yearly salary of the several professors and instructors is suggested. The expenses of this session would be met, so far as may be, by a tuition charge of $1 a week for each subject taken. I t is recommended t h a t where work is done on university subjects, under the tuition of the regular university instructors, in amount sufficient to equal a full term's work in any course, credit should be given on the records of the University for such work, its value to be determined by such examinations as are usual in t h e departments to which i t