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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894
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58 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. MEETING OF DECEMBER 13, 1892. The board met in t h e University Parlor, Urbana, at 3:30 o'clock p. m., Tuesday, December 13, 1892. There were present Messrs. Bullard, Cobb, Funk, Graham. McKay, Rabb, and Shawhan; absent, Governor Fifer, and Messrs. Bryant, Clemens, McLean, and Morgan. The minutes of t h e meeting of September 13th, and of t h e adjourned session of t h a t meeting, held November 15th, were approved. The regent presented his report. REGENT'S REPORT. To the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: In accordance with your requirements I present t h e following quarterly report of the condition and affairs of the University for the period since your last regular meeting. I t is pleasant to be able to state t h a t good progress has been made and t h a t an excellent spirit animates and strengthens the work undertaken. No claim is made t h a t perfection has been reached in regard to attention to duty, or in considerate propriety of demeanor; but no case of serious neglect of a student's proper work, or of willful disorder, has come to my knowledge. I think it is a prevalent feeling among t h e young men and women enrolled t h a t attendance at t h e University is a signal privilege, and t h a t it is distinctly to their advantage to help in every possible way in the daily progress of the great institution organized for their benefit. Certainly this should be the case, and it seems to me t h e internal management of affairs should be based upon t h e assumption t h a t it is and must be t h e normal condition of things. Then exceptions may be treated as they deserve without modification of t h e general rule. v The enrollment for the year now reaches 642 names. Of t h e number who have on record their selection of courses nearly sixty per cent, are in t h e engineering college. The most rapid advance among these courses is in electrical engineering, in which two years ago but a single student was registered, and last year 29. This last number is now considerably more than doubled. STUDENTS' ORGANIZATIONS. The numerous organizations among the students have been maintained with much enthusiasm, both in the lines of culture and improvement in literary and technical matters and in social privileges and enjoyments. A new society has been formed among t h e chemists and t h e young women have been permitted to establish a chapter of a Greek letter organization. Preceding t h e Thanksgiving recess much attention on t h e part of the students was given to field sports under the direction of t h e instructor, and they feel greatly encouraged by their progress and success. Mr. Hall has been very efficient in his department and has t h e hearty good will of all t h e students. He had t h e misfortune to receive a serious injury to his wrist in a game of foot ball, but his hand is now <*ut of t h e sling and will soon be again serviceable. Several others had
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