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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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I t is also stated that H a r r y Ashton Koberts, Edna Hoff, and Irving M. Western declined the appointments made them last June, and Bertha M. Pillsbury will vacate the position in the Academy of Instructor in English if appointed to the place suggested below. I recommend the following new appointments with the time of service to begin September 1, 1904: George Luther Clark, Professor of Law, at $2,000.00. James Wilford Garner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, at $1,700.00. Bichard Sidney Curtiss, Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry, a t $1,800.00. Fred Goodrich Frink, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, a t $1,500. Chester Morton Davison, Instructor in Architecture, at $1,500 for 10 months. Bertha Marion Pillsbury, Instructor in English, at $900 for 10 months. Charles Francis Briscoe, Instructor in Botany, a t $700 for 10 months. Charles Julius Kullmer, Instructor in German, a t $900 for 10 months. William Frederick Hauhart, Instructor in German, at $900 for 10 months. Arthur Sargent Field, Instructor in Economics, at $900 for 10 months. May Wheeler, Assistant in Chemistry, at $500 for 10 months. Winifred Forbes, Assistant in Yiolin and Theory, at $600 for 10 months. Clifford Crosby, Assistant in Botany (part time), at $200 for 10 months. Fay C. Brown, Assistant in Physics (part time), at $300 for 10 months. Florence Mary Smith, Instructor in English in the Academy, at $800 for 10 months. J . Claude Jones, Assistant in Geology, a t $600 for 10 months. The Council of Administration recommends the appointment of Miss Belva M. Herron to a fellowship in Economics a t $300 for the year, one-half of this to be from the commerce fund. Miss Herron is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is unusually qualified through much subsequent study and experience to enter upon investigations, the facilities for which are here on hand.

The appointments were made as recommended.

Mr. Clark graduated from Kenyon College with the class of 1896, and from the law department of the Indiana State University in 1899. After one year of legal practice he spent two years in the Law School of Harvard University and has been for two years instructor in Law in Leland Stanford University. He is to take the work, or a considerable portion of it, heretofore performed by Professor Drew. Mr. Garner was graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi with the class of 1892. After four years' experience as principal of a high school he became a graduate student of the University of Chicago, where he continued his work during two years and was then for two years a teacher of history in Bradley Polytechnic Institute. For two years, 1900 to 1902, he was a fellow in political science in Columbia University, New York, and received here the degree of doctor of philosophy. The next year he was a lecturer at Columbia and was acting editor of the department of political science of the New International Encyclopedia. For the year 1903-4 he has been instructor in political science in the University of Pennsylvania. He has written over 300 articles for the Encyclopedia, is editor in part of the Political Science Quarterly and of the Annals of the American Academy. He is the author of Beconstruction in Mississippi, a book of widely recognized merit. Mr. Curtiss was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1888; was two years employed as chemist by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Stat i o n ; from 1890 to 1892 he was a student at the Universities of Munich and Wurzburg, from the latter of which he received the degree of doctor of philosophy; and was one year at Sorbonne. From 1893 to 1897 he was instructor in organic -chemistry in the University of Chicago; from 1897 to 1901 he was professor of chemistry in Hobart College and has subsequently been the same in Union College. H e is the author of a considerable number of technical papers published in foreign and American journals and is a member of various chemical and other societies.