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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS Quiz Masters.

[June 23,

Charles Erwin Jones, B . S., D. D. S., Prosthetic Department. Clayton McCauley, B . S., D. D. S., Operative Department. T. L. Grismore, Ph. G., D, D. S., Materia Medica and Therapeutics. Corrinne B. Eckley, Anatomy. Mr. W. H. Browne, Superintendent. Mr. Joseph Tomlinson, Clerk. COMMUNICATION FROM STATE FARMERS' INSTITUTE. AGE OF SPECIAL STUDENTS.

In regard to the request made by the State Farmers' Institute that the age for admission of special students in the College of Agriculture be made 16 years, the following resolution was adopted:

Resolved, That paragraph 8 of the rules adopted July 6, 1901, with regard to scholarships in the College of Agriculture be changed to read as follows: 8. That candidates, if fully able to meet the requirements for admission to the freshman class, that is, have had a good high school education or its equivalent, be eligible to appointment a t sixteen years of age, and young men who can not meet these entrance requirements be eligible to appointment as special students at sixteen years of age; provided, that all so admitted under eighteen must take half their studies in the Preparatory School until they have either reached the age of eighteen or have fully satisfied the entrance requirements. That young women to be eligible as candidates for admission as special students in Household Science must be eighteen years of age. However, it is strongly recommended that all young people wishing to gain these scholarships complete in high schoolsat home or in their vicinity, before coming to the University, their preparation for the freshman class. CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL.

The question of correspondence work in the- Agricultural College was referred to the Committee on Instruction for further consideration as to the expediency of undertaking such work. The committee was directed to consult with President Draper and Dean Davenport.

AID FOR FARMERS' INSTITUTES.

It was voted that all the assistance possible should be given to the farmers' institutes by the corps of instruction in the College of Agriculture. The resolution in regard to the appointment of Mr. F. H. Rankin, adopted June 9th, was reconsidered and then laid on the table. It was then voted to adopt President Draper's recommendation in regard to the employment of Mr. Rankin for the ensuing year. President Draper presented a communication from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago and it was referred to the committee on the College of Medicine.