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1899.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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6. That "the 'preparatory students be taught in separate classes from the University students in French and German. The preparatory students retard the progress of the classes, It is proposed to put into the curriculum of the preparatory school a year and a half of each of these languages. : This wil) be sufficient to meet the entrance requirements to the University. The arrangement will also remove several difficulties which we have labored under for the past two or three years in providing for students who come to the University with varying degrees of preparation in the modern languages. 7. That the name of the department of Romance languages be changed to Eomanic languages. This name is more accurate, it corresponds to "Germanic languages,' 7 and it is now in use in several first class institutions. 8. That a combined course of three years each in science and medicine be authorized which shall entitle students taking it to both a scientific and a medical degree. This course will contain all the prescribed general and scientific work of the natural science courses, omitting only the miscellaneous electives. It will contain also all the professional work of the medical course excepting those subjects already taken in the College of Science for which it is proposed that credit shall be given in the Medical School. The subjects so credited will be biology, zoology, comparative anatomy, histology, physiology,' bacteriology, and chemistry. It is hoped by this change in the course to shorten it sufficiently to enable fa student to graduate in medicine with a liberal preparation in college work, by crediting him in the college course for work done in the Medical School in lieu of merely miscellaneous subjects taken by him at will, and by encouraging him to take the non-professional work of the Medical School at the University rather than at the Medical School. Respectfully submitted,

DAVID KINLEY,

Secretary to the Council of Administration. R e c o m m e n d a t i o n s Nos. 4 to 8, inclusive, were severally adopted.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS.

To the Board of Trustees. I recommend that there be included in the askings of the legislature the following additional items: For drainage, fencing, etc., on the experimental farm, and for maintenance of barns, two thousand dollars. For wiring and providing electrical fixtures in University Hall and Natural History Hall, so that those buildings may be lighted from the University lighting plant, three thousand dollarsf For constructing a swimming tank in connection with the Men's Gymnasium, three thousand dollars. If these items are approved at once they may be included in the bill which is likely to be introduced next week. They are items of decided importance. •' . ' .

A. S. DRAPER,

President. Approved on motion of Mr. B u l l a r d . A c o m m u n i c a t i o n was p r e s e n t e d from Professor P . M. M c M u r r y , a s k i n g t h a t t h e balance of his salary, for t h e m o n t h of A u g u s t , 1894, $166.66, b e paid him, a n d it was so ordered. M r . A r m s t r o n g , as c h a i r m a n of t h e C o m m i t t e e on I n s t r u c t i o n , called u p t h e q u e s t i o n of c h a n g e in L i b r a r y School fees, which h a d been passed w i t h o u t action at the last m e e t i n g of t h e B o a r d (see p a g e 4 0 ) . T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n of t h e c o m m i t t e e was not a p p r o v e d .