Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 270]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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Mr. Armstrong presented the following report of the summer school,, prepared by Professor Kinley, which was received for record:

TJRBANA, I I I . , July 10, 1894.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: I hereby submit the report of the work of the summer school. The number enrolled was 38. Of these 25 were teachers in the public schools, one was an instructor in the University, 8 were students ol the University and 4 were unclassified. Excluding students, 9 came from the immediate neighborhood, Urbana and Champaign, 18 from other places in the state and 3 from other states. The subjects offered were chosen as follows: Mathematics, by 18 students, as follows: Algebra, 6; geometry, 5; trigonometry, 1; calculus, determinants and conic sections, each, 2; chemistry, 11, as follows: Elementary chemistry, 8; analytical chemistry, 2: organic chemistry, 1; pedagogy, 10; zoology, 9; physical culture, 8 (all women); history, 7, as follows: U. S. history (civil government), 5; 19th century history, 2; English literature, 5, as follows: English literature proper, 2; composition, 1; rhetoric and grammar, 2; botany, 5; experimental psychology and physiology, each, 3; economics, empirical psychology and child-study, each, 2; entomology, 0. Several requests were made for a reduction of the tuition fee by students who could stay only part of the term. A reduction was made in t h e case of two persons, a gentleman and his wife, who found it impossible to stay more than three weeks. I t seemed best for t h e interests of the University t h a t they should go away feeling satisfied with the treatment they had received. Accordingly, after consultation with Professor McMurry and two of the older members of the University faculty, I gave them orders on the busines agent for a rebate of $2 each. This leaves the amount received for tuition, $376. If this action does not meet your approval, I shall, of course, gladly be responsible for the amount of the rebates. Some difficulty arose in the matter of salaries. On page 235 of the printed report of t h e proceedings at your March meeting is a statement of the appropriation for the summer school. According to t h a t statement $1,000 was appropriated for salaries. On the preceding page (234) is a recommendation of your committee on the summer school t h a t each instructor therein be allowed for his services one-tenth of his annual salary. According to the report of your committee, approved at t h a t same meeting, t h e studies offered in the summer school necessitated t h e employment of seven instructors, whose aggregate salaries amounted to $1,010. Afterwards, by direction of your committee, two others, Professors Krohn and Myers, were added, making the salary list $1,340. Moreover, Professors Palmer and Parr were both engaged to teach the chemistry offered, on the understanding t h a t the amount of salary for one professor ($200) should be assigned to both, to be divided between them, provided the work asked for by students in chemistry was not more than full work for one professor. Professor Palmer had full work during t h e session and Professor Parr half work. Therefore, according to the understanding, the professors of chemistry should have one salary and a half, or $290. In view, however, of the fact t h a t this arrangement for an additional half salary for the professors of chemistry has not been approved by you, I could not, of course, approve its payment. In view, further, of the fact t h a t only $1,000 was appropriated for salaries, I judged t h a t I had no authority to approve t h e full salary list. Accordingly, I approved to the business agent a salary list, on a pro rata basis, up to t h e amount of $1,000. I would respectfully recommend t h a t an additional half salary be allotted to t h e professors of chemistry, in accordance with the understanding mentioned above, which they had with Professor McMurry, and t h a t an* additional appropriation of $430 be made to pay