Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1902 [PAGE 131]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[ J u l y 6,

6. That institutes and associations are earnestly requested to make diligent inquiry as to scholarship, character, and energy on the part of candidates; it is suggested that a competitive examination in such elementary subjects as English Composition, Botany, and Algebra to and including Quadratic Equations be held, to the end that the appointment may be considered an honor at home and the appointee may become a credit to the University. 7. That while appointments should not be based upon considerations of scholarship alone, yet, other things being equal, those of highest scholarship should be preferred, and in all cases a high degree of ability to take instruction and to acquire learning should be insisted upon. 8. That candidates must be at least 18 years of age in order to be eligible to appointment. 9. That the purpose of these scholarships, like that of the full course of study in the College, is twofold: To afford opportunity for technical work in agriculture and in household science and also to encourage higher scholarship in related sciences and along academic lines. 10. That, therefore, in the assignment of work to scholarship students the same general relation should be observed between technical, scientific, and academic work as is observed with students pursuing courses leading to graduation. 11. That, also, while high scholarship is not made a requisite for admission, yet the authorities of the University will make diligent inquiry as to the scholastic attainments of each scholarship student, and while consulting individual preferences as far as consistent, will however, assign to students such work in amount and character as they are able to carry with profit to themselves. 12. That all assignments made in the College of Agriculture shall be without tuition or fee of any kind except laboratory fees in certain subjects, and that all assignments in the Preparatory School shall be with a tuition fee of two dollars per subject per semester. 13. That, if, upon interview, it shall appear that the training in English of any scholarship student is deficient, that student shall be assigned to the Preparatory School, to make such deficiency good without unnecessary delay. 14. That the scholarship continue for two years and that the holders be advised that two years time will not suffice to complete University courses, and be urged to do work which will satisfy entrance requirements and then take up regular work leading to a degree and that in case the holder of the scholarship shall meet the entrance requirements within the two years the benefits of the scholarship be extended two years further. 15. That farmers' institutes and domestic science associations be requested to make no recommendation for agricultural or household science scholarships unless candidates, with the concurrence of their parents, express their purpose to enter the University at the opening of a semester and remain to its close. 16. That no person who has been a student in the University shall be eligible to one of these scholarships. Respectfully submitted,

F R E D L. HATOH, ALICE ASBURY ABBOTT, A. S. DRAPER.

T h e r e p o r t was a m e n d e d b y c h a n g i n g t h e word " t w o " in t h e last line of p a r a g r a p h 14 to "four", a n d t h e n was adopted as amended. T h e Secretary was directed to h a v e copies of t h e r e p o r t p r i n t e d for d i s t r i b u t i o n as soon as possible.