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1901.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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any, shall be returned to the Business manager immediately after the examinations. The cost of the examination books shall be charged to the account of stationery and printing. 4. The increase in the number of students in the University regiment makes it necessary to apply to the War Department for the issuance of another hundred cadet rifles and sets of accoutrements, and this makes it necessary for the Board to authorize the University to execute a bond to the Government of the United States for the care thereof. Accordingly I recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Besolved, That the University execute as principal, and 'deliver to the Government of the United States, a bond in the penal sum of three thousand five hundred seven dollars for additional ordnance and stores consisting of one hundred Springfield cadet rifles and sets of equipment, about to be issued to the University for the use of the military department by the Secretary of War, and that Mr. Thomas J. Smith, President of the Board of Trustees, be and is hereby authorized to sign said bond on behalf of the University, and attach thereto the seal of the University. 5. Meetings of educational associations and incidental gatherings for educational ends are occurring frequently. In my opinion the thing is being overdone, and the greater number of these assemblages are not of sufficient importance to the University to justify the expense of attendance or the absence of a University representative from regular work. Yet it is sometimes clear that we ought to be represented. But who is to determine at what gatherings we shall be represented, and when the University shall bear the expense of representation, and who the representative shall be? There is no rule on the subject, and for the purpose of securing one I recommend the following to your favorable consideration: Besolved, That members of the University faculties should be disposed to attend, at least occasionally, and at their own expense, meetings of the National Educational Association and of the Illinois State Teachers' Association because of the obligation all teachers are under to sustain such associations, and that the same rule should apply to attendance by a member upon a meeting of teachers of his own class held for the promotion of the particular line of work in which he is engaged, because such attendance is in the interest of his own efficiency rather than of the University representation. Beyond this the President of the University is authorized to determine at what meetings it seems sufficiently desirable that the University shall be represented to justify the expense thereof; that he feel free to attend such meetings himself, if he thinks it desirable to do so; and if not, that he arrange for such representation as he thinks well, and that the expense thereof be a University charge. In connection with the same subject I recommend the following: Besolved, That the Board would approve the expense of a room for University headquarters in connection with the Illinois State Teachers ' Association. 6. The last General Assembly made an appropriation of $8,000, for remodeling the old Chemical Laboratory so as to make it available to the College of Law or the School of Music. Other plans are contingent upon the decision as between the College of Law and the School of Music, and steps should soon be taken in full preparation for completing the work in the next summer vacation. It seems to me that the building and the surrounding conditions lend themselves to the needs of the Law School rather than to the Music School, and that the interests of the latter will be better met in the auditorium, which we must surely erect at an early day, than they could be in the old laboratory building. It is likely also that the School of Music would interfere less with other instructional work if so housed. The old building would make an admirable home for the College of Law. I therefore recommend that, as soon as the chemistry departments can relinquish the use of the laboratory, it be remodeled for the College of Law,