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UNIVEI1SITY OF ILLINOIS.

this extra half salary, and also the amounts remaining due the other instructors. I append a statement of the pro rata amounts which I have approved, allowing one salary for the professors of chemistry, allowing one salary and a half for these professors, and of the amounts remaining due the instructors. In response to the request of his students in t h a t subject and of the members of his class in general pedagogy, and in accordance with the provision for such changes announced in the printed circular, it was deemed advisable for Professor Charles McMurry to change his course in empirical physchology to one in the study of special problems in pedagogy. This change was made and the new course taken by some eight or nine, mainly the members of his other class. The experience of this, the first, session of the summer school, demonstrates the wisdom of its establishment. The enrollment is very encouraging, and is larger than in the case of some similar undertakings elsewhere at different times. The students, so far as I have been able to determine, were all well satisfied, and I feel confident t h a t the number in attendance will be largely increased by another year. In order to promote this very desirable end the plans for next summer should be made early in the University year and systematically and thoroughly advertised during the year. On the basis of the experience of this summer's session, I beg leave to make the following recommendations to your honorable body: 1. T h a t the summer school be continued. 2. T h a t the subjects of study offered this summer be continued next summer, with the following exceptions and additions: T h a t entomology be dropped; t h a t chemistry be put definitely under the charge of one instructor: t h a t all the psychology and the pedagogy be in charge of one instructor: t h a t the courses offered in mathematics do not go beyond trigonometry: -and t h a t elementary physics and Latin be added. There were requests for both the last named subjects. The reason for suggesting these changes is obvious. The attendance at the summer school will be made up mainly of teachers in the public schools. While, therefore, the work should be in quality equal to regular LTniversity work, the subjects offered should consist chiefly of those which teachers are likely to demand. I t seems inadvisable t h a t an instructor should devote one hour a day to a single student who is backward in his University work, when, if he offered some subject desirable for teachers, several might take the course. This has happened, however, in the session just closed. I t would seem better t h a t a double fee ($20) should be charged all University students who wish to make up back work, unless a class of at least "five can be formed in the study asked for. 3. T h a t students be not permitted to study for university credits in advance, except in subjects which are listed in the catalogue as fractional courses, and then only on payment of a double fee unless a class of five can be formed. I t is exceedingly undesirable to encourage any one in an effort to do three months' work in one, especially in the summer. 4. T h a t certificates of the amount of work done, if a satisfactory examination is passed on it, be issued to those students of the summer school who apply for them, and who have been present through the entire session of the school. The faculty of the summer school recommends at my suggestion t h a t ^ reduction of fee be made to students who cannot remain through the entire session, according to the following scale and on the following conditions: 1. T h a t t h e full fee shall in all cases be deposited, and a rebate given only if the student gives notice, when he enters, of his inability to remain through the entire session.