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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS.

[March 10,

Estimates for the Agriculture Department.—Concluded.

From ReceiptsAnimal husbandry Dairy husbandry Horticulture From U S. Station FundsSalaries Agronomy Animal husbandry Dairy husbandry Horticulture Thremmatology General office Publications From ReceiptsAgronomy From State Station ReceiptsLive stock specimens Feeding experiments Soil investigations

$ 600 00 1,000 00 100 00 $1,700 00 $1,775 00 376 00 375 00 375 00 375 00 76 00 160 00 250 00 $3,750 00 $ 730 00 $4.000 00 2.000 00 450 OOj $6,450 00

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President Draper presented the following communication from the Council of Administration:

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, March 9, 1903.

President A. S. Draper: Dear Sir: I send you herewith the action of the Council pertaining to several matters for presentation to the Board of Trustees in accordance with University regulations. The Council of Administration makes the following recommendations: 1. Concerning entrance requirements in mathematics. The distribution of the nine credits now assigned to alegbra, plane, solid and spherical geometry as follows: To algebra 5 credits, to plane geometry 3 credits, to solid and spherical geometry 1 credit. At present the distribution is algebra 4 credits, plane geometry 3, solid and spherical 2. It is the opinion of the Council that the distribution recommended is more in accordance with the actual state of affairs in the high schools and a truer estimate of the relative values of the subjects. 2. The Council further recommends that the action of the Board of Trustees, printed in the current catalog on page 56 as a foot note, whereby candidates for the colleges of Literature and Arts, Science, Agriculture, and Law, may offer in lieu of solid and spherical geometry three additional credits in history or foreign language be changed to read as follows: "Candidates for the Colleges of Literature and Arts, Science, Agriculture and Law, may offer in lieu of solid and spherical geometry an equivalent amount of work in any subject in the elective list which is accepted for one credit.'' 3. The Council further recommends that household science scholarships be open to women in any college or school of the University, as set.forth in the following memorandum: It seems that the main use of the scholarships in household science is to encourage students to take the household science courses, and that if a proportionate and sufficient number of students were taking these courses without the inducement of free scholarships, no such scholarships would be offered. In view of the fact that this is a new department, and that its work may reasonably be expected to contribute largely to the welfare of the people of the state, that the kind of instruction which it offers is very little known, and that its purposes and values are but little understood, we are of the opinion that the offer of free scholarships to students registered in that department is helpful; especially as a convincing expression of he University view of the im-