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UNIVERSITY OF

ILLINOIS.

Your committee has examined into the merits of t h e case as far as possible, and, after consideration, recommends to the faculty t h a t Mr. Frederickson be permitted to prepare for examination in t h e studies required, and t h a t examination be given him, and t h a t if all the requirements have been complied with, his graduation papers be issued to him at the end of the fall term of 1894: and t h a t he be classed with the classof 1894. Respectfully submitted, S A. BuLLAiiD, I committee omminee

J. E. ARMSTRONG, f ^ ~

A communication was received from the Urbana and Champaign Electric Street Railway Company, asking permission to run across the University property along the line of VVright street, extended south to road on the north of Mt. Hope Cemetery. The consideration of this request was postponed till next meeting of the board. The secretary was instructed to get from the attorney general his opinion as to the power of the board to comply with his request. Mr. Morrison stated t h a t Mr. I. H. Rapp, superintendent of the construction of Engineering Hall, tendered his resignation, and asked to be relieved as soon as practicable. On motion of Mr. McLean his resignation was referred to the committee on buildings and grounds with power to act, and the committee was instructed to secure a superintendent as soon as practicable. On motion of Mr. Armstrong, Dr. Burrill was made dean of t h e general faculty, and it was ordered t h a t his salary from August 1, 1894, should be $2,700 a year from the University and $300 from the Experiment Station. The committee on instruction made the following report:

URBANA, I I I . , Aug. 1, 1894.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your committee on instruction having duly considered the fitness of the persons named for their respective positions, nominates W. J. Eckoff, P H . D . , as Professor of Pedagogics, with a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and Percy F. Bicknell, A.M., as librarian, at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. I t is recommended t h a t Professor Palmer be charged with the general business affairs of the chemical laboratory; and t h a t Professor Parr's title be changed from professor of analytical chemistry to t h a t of professor of applied chemistry, and t h a t their departments be separately organized as agreed upon between themselves. We recommend the appointment of one additional instructor in chemistry, at a salary of not to exceed one hundred dollars a month, for ten months; one assistant in mechanical engineering, at a salary not to exceed eighty dollars a month, for ten months; one assistant in physics, at a salary not to exceed eighty dollars a month, for ten months; one storekeeper in the electrical laboratory, at thirty dollars for ten months; H. E. Reeves, assistant in military science, at not to exceed one hundred dollars for the year; Edward Lake, assistant in art and design, at fortyfive dollars a month for ten months; Robert C. Yial, assistant in general engineering drawing, at sixty dollars a month for ten months; Henry Jones, blacksmith, at fifty dollars a month for ten months; and one assistant in preparatory Latin and Greek. Your committee would further report t h a t by your authority, in connection with the acting regent, it has appointed Jeremiah G. Mosier assistant in geology and mineralogy, at a salary of sixty dollars a month for ten months; Miss Adelle Clendenin, assistant in English, at sixty dollars a month, for ten months; and the following named persons as fellows, at four hundred dollars a year each: Robert A. Wood, mechanical engineering; Chas. F. Hottes. natural science; Grant C. Miller, architec-