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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894
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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES 57 The request of Lieutenant Hills for assistance in giving instruction in his department, was referred to the regent, to report on at t h e next meeting of the board. The requests of Professor Ricker in regard to the department of architecture, were referred to the regent, the business agent, and Professor Ricker, to report on at the next meeting. On motion of Mr McLean, the regent and the business agent were directed to replace the hose reported to be in bad condition on the roof of University Hall. The request of the Academy was referred to the president and the regent, to report on at the next meeting. The regent presented the following communication from the faculty: U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS, NOV. 15, 1892. I t was voted by the faculty, October 31, 1892, t h a t the following requests be made of the trustees at their next meeting: 1. To provide for an entrance examination, to be held in Chicago early in July. 2. To provide for the issuing of a sixteen-page circular, eight pages of text and eight of illustrations, similar to t h a t distributed last year, in quantity sufficient to place a copy in the hands of every high school pupil in the State, and of all others who may call for them. 3. So to amend t h e rules t h a t public high schools out of the State may be put on our accredited list. 4. So to amend t h e rules t h a t private schools may be put on our accredited list. J. D. CRAWFORD, Secretary of the Faculty. The first, third, and fourth of these requests were granted. The matter of the circular was referred to the regent, t h e business agent, and t h e secretary, to report on at the next meeting of the board. The request of the mandolin club for aid was not granted, on the ground t h a t the board has now no funds which it could use in this way. A request having been made for t h e appointment of a committee, of which the President should be a member, to report to the board at its December meeting upon matters to be made the subject of legislation, the President named as such committee Messrs. McKay McLean, Clemens, Graham, and Morgan, and himself. The board adjourned. S. A. BULLARD, W. L. PILLSBURY, President. Secretary.
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