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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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A u t h o r i t y was g i v e n to confer degrees at c o m m e n c e m e n t as certified b y t h e G e n e r a l F a c u l t y of t h e U n i v e r s i t y i n t h e foregoing communication.

RECOMMENDATIONS AS T O C O R P S OF I N S T R U C T I O N .

URBANA, June 10,1901. lo the Board of Trustees: The Committee on Instruction, having1 carefully examined the recommendations of the President of the University, appended hereto, concerning the administrative and instructional forces of the University, and the scientific staff of the Agricultural Experiment Station, for the coming year, after due consideration and extended discussion begs leave to report the following and recommends the adoption thereof.

A. F . NIGHTINGALE, ALICE ASBURY ABBOTT, F R E D L. HATCH,

Committee on Instruction.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, P R E S I D E N T ' S OFFICE, J u n e 11,1901.

I present the following recommendations touching the Corps of Instruction for the coming year: Beans. 1. That Thomas Jonathan Burrill be re-elected Vice-President and Dean of the Graduate School, but that the phrase "Dean of the General Faculty" be dropped from his title. 2. That the Deans of the College of Literature and Arts, Engineering, Science, Agriculture and Law be re-elected and that the salaries of each be increased $500. 3. That the position of Dean of Undergraduate and Assistant to the President, with membership in the Council of Administration, be created; that Thomas Arkle Clark, Professor of Rhetoric and for the past year Acting Dean of the College of Literature and Arts, be appointed thereto and that he have altogether a salary of $2,250.00. 4. That Violet Dilille Jayne be re-elected Dean of the Woman's Department at a salary of $1,700.00 per annum. New Professors, 1. That the resignation of William Sleeper Aldridge, Professor of Electrical Engineering, be accepted and that Morgan Brooks, now Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska, be appointed to the position at a salary of $2,500.00 per annum. 2. That Edward Fulton be appointed Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at $1,400.00 per annum. 3. That Edward Chauncey Baldwin be appointed Assistant Professor of English Literature at $1,300.00 per annum. 4. That Frederick Locke Lawrence be appointed Director of the School of Music and Professor of the Piano, at $1,800.00 a year, in place of Walter Howe Jones, resigned. D 5 . That David Hobart Carnahan be appointed Assistant Professor of Romanic Language in place of Herman S. Piatt resigned, at a salary of $1,400.00 per annum. 6. That Robert Louis Short be appointed Assistant Professor of Mathematics at $1,500.00 per annum.