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1900.]

PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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•on July 1st, with the understanding that his nominal employment and salary here shall continue to September 1st. I regret this matter exceedingly, but I can not let my earnest desire that Professor Myers shall leave us with pleasant recollections and with our good will and best wishes, turn me aside from the course which 1 believe to be imperative and just to the interests concerned. 5. That Thaddetis L. Bolton be appointed instructor in the department of psychology for ten months from September 1, 1900, at $100 a month. There has been a vacancy in this position during the year. It has been held in abeyance pending the appointment of the professor of pedagogy. Unless we are to discontinue the department of psychology it would seem highly desirable to make an appointment for the next year. If that is to be done, the sooner it is done, with due regard to the interests involved, the better. I have as strong confidence in the recommendation made as in any I am likely to be able to make. Doctor Bolton has been more or less under consideration by this University for seven years. His appointment is approved by Doctor Dexter, whom we have appointed professor of pedagogy. Doctor Bolton is thirty-five years old, and was born in this State; took his A. B. degree, with his major work in philosophy, at the University of Michigan in 1889, and his Ph. D. degree in psychology at Clark University in 1893. He studied three months each at the Universities of Berlin, Leipzig, and Heidelberg. He has taught at Clark University while working for his doctor's degree, at the state normal schools at Worcester, Massachusetts, and San Jose, California, at the University of Washington, and at the University of Nebraska, where he now is. I have seen him and believe him to be scholarly, but perhaps not brilliant, thoroughly honest and earnest and right spirited, although he may possibly lack in aggressiveness. Only a trial will settle the question of his thorough adaptation to our service. Men in experimental psychology who are scholarly and forceful, and yet sane and safe, are very rare. There are no men with established reputations in this woik who are available. Doctor Bolton well knows the difficulties we have experienced, has confidence he can build up the department on a substantial foundation, and is willing to undertake it for less money than he is offered to remain at the University of Nebraska. I think we will do well to give him the opportunity. 6. That the recommendations of the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, approved by the Advisory Board, be approved, and appropriations be made to cover his estimates for the next quarter, as follows:

Salaries Publications '.. Library Office Animal I m s b a n d r y . Agronomy Horticulture •Chemistry Total ,300 800 200 400 300 300 400 50 $3,750

Also that the estimates of the Dean of the College of Agriculture be approved, and appropriations be made to cover the same as follows:

-Office and incidentals Agronomy Animal h u s b a n d r y Dairy h u s b a n d r y Horticulture Total $100900 1,000 500 800 $3,300

7. That a department of domestic science be established in the College of Agriculture, and that the President be authorized to make search for a suitable person of scientific attainments and organizing qualities to take charge