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1899.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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from the funds for instruction; and Mr. A. D. Shamel, B. S., as assistant in farm crops at a salary of $600 a year, to be paid one-half from funds for instruction and one-half from the Experiment Station funds. It should perhaps be noted that Mr. Shamel was appointed at your last meeting as field assistant at $45 a month. This action would of course be superseded by the above should the recommendation be adopted. Mr. Frederick Crane was also appointed assistant in the field and machinery department at $35 per month. For reasons apparently strenous it is not desired to appoint Mr. Crane to a permanent place, but leave is asked to pay him $45 a month as greater responsibilities and duties than were at first comtemplated will be assigned to him in the way of giving instruction. No nomination can yet be made for an assistant or instructor in dairying. Several men are under consideration but I am not satisfied that we have yet found the best man for the place. Further time for this is desired. Mr. Neureuther declined the appointment ofiered him at your June meeting as assistant in mechanical engineering, and, unon the recommendation of Professor Breckenridge, I present the name of Dwight T. .Randall, B. S., for the place, at the salary proposed, viz: $500 for ten months. On the recommendation of Professor Shattuck, Mr. R. L. Short is named as instructor in mathematics at $800 for ten months, and on similar action by Professor Carman, Mr. Edward G. Gagnier is recommended as mechanician for the departments of physics and electrical engineering at $720 for twelve months. All these appointments to begin September 1, 1899. I recommend that Professor Holden's title be changed to that of Professor of Agronomy. I also recommend that the rule in regard to the admission of special students be changed so as to allow persons sixteen years of age and over to tie entered in the College of Agriculture as special students. The amended rule would then read as follows:

ADMISSION OF SPECIAL STUDENTS.

"Persons over twenty-one years of age, or in the College of Agriculture over sixteen years of age, not candidates for a degree, may be admitted to classes, after satisfying the President and the professor in charge of the department in which such classes are taught, that they possess the requisite information and ability to pursue profitably, as special students, the chosen subjects. Such students are not matriculated; they pay a tuition fee of seven dollars and a half a semester, in addition to the regular incidental fee of twelve dollars." I also present for your consideration communications from Professors Palmer and Parr, asking for small appropriations of money. I transmit also the resignation of Professor J. E. McGilvrey. Respectfully submitted,

T. J. BURRILL,

Vice-President. O n motion of Mr. S m i t h , t h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s of t h e p a p e r with r e g a r d to a p p o i n t m e n t s a n d salaries, also w i t h r e g a r d to t h e c h a n g e of Professor H o l d e n ' s title, a n d t h e c h a n g e in t h e rule c o n c e r n i n g t h e admission of special s t u d e n t s , were a d o p t e d . . I t was voted t h a t t h e B o a r d accept with r e g r e t t h e r e s i g n a t i o n of Professor McGilvrey. O n motion of Mr. S m i t h it was voted to a p p r o p r i a t e $100.00 for t h e p u r p o s e of m a k i n g an e x h i b i t of food p r o d u c t s at t h e S t a t e F a i r .