Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 220]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

PEOCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

221

any event a small sum for apparatus and materials will be much needed. The principal names $350. As to rooms for the preparatory school, as proposed, it is easily seen t h a t the present quarters would not suffice, but some arrangement can be made after the engineers vacate University Hall, and probably with little cost for refitting.

CHANGES I N COURSES, COURSES FOR H I G H E R D E G R E E S .

The executive committee of the faculty, on recommendation of the faculty of the college of literature, asks t h a t the admission requirements in Latin be reduced to two books of Caesar, four orations of Cicero, and four books of Vergil. The same committee, from suggestions of the faculties of the colleges of science and literature, desires your approval of t h e following modifications in regard to admittance to the University: <1) That graduates of the Illinois State Normal Schools be admitted to classes in pedagogy and allied studies, and be granted a certificate on t h e completion of a two years' course, and (2) T h a t persons over 21 years of age be admitted to advanced standing on satisfying the usual requirements for admission, together with such other requirements as the faculty may deem suitable. The committee also asks authority to announce in the catalogue the conditions upon which the degrees of doctor of philosophy and doctor of science will be granted. I present herewith a communication from Professor White and will say, in the same connection, Mr. Cleaves Bennett has informed me t h a t he does not wish to be a candidate for reappointment another year. Both of these gentlemen have abundantly earned your high appreciation for the excellence of their services, and your best wishes for their future welfare. Professor White's communication is as follows: To the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: I t is my wish to devote some time to travel and study abroad, and I therefore ask for a leave of absence beginning June 7, 1894; and continuing through the next University year. Respectfully submitted,

J A M E S M. WHITE,

Assistant Professor of Architecture. In regard to the library, the time has undoubtedly now come when a thoroughly competent man should be engaged as chief officer, to have no other responsibility resting upon him. He should have at least one efficient, permanent assistant or clerk, besides the assistance possible to receive from students. I submit for your consideration special reports or communications from the departments of agriculture, mechanical engineering, physics and electrical engineering, and chemistry, and am prepared to give you further information in each case.

D E P A R T M E N T OF ZOOLOGY.

Professor Forbes, in a communication setting forth the embarrassments arising from the rapidly increasing complication of his work as state entomologist, as director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, and as professor of zoology in the University, and dean in the college of science, asking a revision of his relations to the University and to these omside interests, makes the following suggestions to t h a t end: ''Three possible methods of reorganization suggest themselves to me. (1) The simplest, and the one I should personally very much prefer, would be a resignation of my position as state entomologist and a concentration of my energies on my university department and the natural history