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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1902
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226 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [Mar. 11, Fechet and the Chairman of the Committee on Finance be authorized to advertise for bids to furnish uniforms for the University cadets for the next two years, and to conclude a contract upon receiving a satisfactory bid, and report their action to this board. A. S. DRAPER, President. T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n was approved. COMMERCE AND TRANSPORTATION AND INDUSTRY. lo the Board of Trustees, Since the last meeting of the Board I have given, in conjunction with Professor Kinley of the department of economics, very careful attention to preparations for the work in commerce, industry, trade, accounts, etc., which we are to inaugurate in September next. Some important results have been arrived at within the last three or four days in the course of a journey which I have made to the eastern states. It is scarcely possible to do more than state to the Board such net results as have been attained and ask its approval. I therefore make the following recommendations: 1. That the work be inaugurated in conjunction with that of the department of economics, and that Professor Kinley retain the headship of such department. 2. That George M. Fish be appointed professor of commerce in this department, and Maurice H. Robinson professor of industries and transportation, at a salary of $2,250 each, the appointments to take effect on the first of September, 1902. 3. That I be authorized to engage one more teacher who shall give his attention to the subject of accounting, and that the announcements of the department showing courses of instruction and full details be completed and published as soon as practicable. Professor Fisk, whose appointment is provided for above, is about 36 years of age, is a graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1890, and took his doctorate degree at the University of Munich in 1896. He was superintendent of schools in Michigan for three years. He was then secretary of the American Embassy at Berlin four years. He became a professor at Tome Institute, Port Deposit, Maryland, in 1900. He was an instructor in the summer term at Wisconsin University in 1900, and at Johns Hopkins University in 1901, and held the Albert Shaw lectureship at Johns Hopkins University where he is delivering a course of lectures. He is the author of various articles in the public press, and of two books in German, the first a History of German-American diplomatic relations, and the other a commercial history of the United States from 1890 to 1900. Professor Robinson is 34 years of age; was graduated at Dartmouth in 1890; taught in the public schools in Minnesota from 1890 to 1896; held a fellowship at Dartmouth in 1896; was an instructor there in 1897-'98; took his A. M. degree in 1897; held a fellowship at Yale in 1898 '99; and has been an instructor at Yale since 1899, where he, will take his Ph. D. degree this year. I think both of these men are exceedingly strong and promising and will be great acquisitions in our work. A. S. DRAPER, President. O n approval 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 , t h e foregoing reco m m e n d a t i o n s were adopted. A c o m m u n i c a t i o n from t h e P r e s i d e n t of t h e Choral Society, P r o fessor J . M. W h i t e , p r e s e n t e d by P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r , was read a n d placed on file.
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