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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Sept. 12,

M E E T I N G OF T H E

E X E C U T I V E COMMITTEE, S E P T E M B E R 12, 1899.

A duly called meeting of the executive committee of Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held in Capt. T. J. Smith's •office, in Champaign, Illinois, on the evening of Sept. 12, 1899. All the members of the committee were present. An appropriation of $300.00 from the agricultural fund was made to defray expenses of an exhibit of the agricultural department at the State Fair, in Springfield, and also an appropriation of $300.00 for an exhibit by the other departments of the University. ALEX. MCLEAN, President.

MEETING OF SEPTEMBEE 29, 1899.

A meeting of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the office of the president of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, on the fair grounds, in Springfield, Illinois, on the forenoon of Friday, Sept. 29, 1899. There were present Messrs. McLean and McKay; absent, Mrs. Flower. The following communication was received from President Draper: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Sept. 28,1899. To the Board of Trustees. At the recent meeting of the Board the application of Mr. Loren Provine for a free scholarship in the University was referred to me. Having ascertained that Mr. Provine is the son of a soldier ot the Union army in the civil war, and the Board having granted a similar request in another case, I recommend that this request be granted, upon the understanding that it is to &pply in the academic departments only and not to the professional and preparatory departments of the University. Upon the recommendations of the professors of music, and their statement that Miss Jeannette Stedman has marked musical talent and can be of service to the department and lacks the means to continue study therein, 1 recommend that she be given a free Scholarship in music for the present year. By previous action of the Board the fees in instrumental music are made lower for instruction by Miss Pox than by Professor Jones. Now that there is an assistant in vocal music the same practice should apply in that connection. I therefore recommend that the fees for instruction by the assistant in vocal music be made the same as for instruction by the assistant in instrumental music.