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1905 J

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS.

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13. The President recommended that the Board create the following new positions in the University of Illinois, with salaries not to execeed $3,500 per year: (a) Head of the Department of Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Laboratory. (&) Head of the Department of Modern Languages. (c) Head of the Department of English. (d) Head of the Department of Classics. And that the President be requested to nominate men to fill these positions as soon as may be convenient. T h e recommendations were adopted. DUTIES OF VICE PRESIDENT. 14. The President recommended that he be authorized to delegate to the Vice President of the institution such duties now connected with that office as it may be found feasible to transfer. Voted that such recommendation be approved. 15. The President recommended that the resignation of Dr. Thomas Jonothan Burrill as Dean of the Graduate School be accepted, to take effect when his successor may be selected and enter upon his duties. Voted that the recommendation be approved. Recommended that Professor E. J. Townsend be appointed Acting Dean of the College of Science until further notice. Voted that the recommendation be approved. ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION. 17. The President recommended that the Engineering Experiment Station be organized as a separate department of the University; that Professor L. P. Breckenridge be made Director of the Station, and the heads of the other departments of the College of Engineering be constituted members of the staff of the Engineering Experiment Station, with such other members as may be appointed for that purpose; and that the President of the University be authorized to draw up a plan of work for the Station and submit to the Trustees a proposed. budget of the same. Voted to approve the recommendation. 18. The President recommended that the resignation of Professor N. C. Ricker as Dean of the College of Engineering be accepted, to take effect at such time as his successor may be appointed and enter upon his duties. Voted that the recommendation be approved. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. 19. The President recommended that Professor E. G. Dexter be appointed Director of the School of Education for the year 1905-6; that Mr.. Frank Hamsher be appointed Assistant Professor of Education in the School of Education for the year 1905-6; that a second assistant professorship in Education be established at a salary not to exceed $1,500 per annum, and that the President be authorized to nominate a man for such a position at his earliest convenience. That the sum of $1,000 be appropriated for special lectures in the School of Education for the year 1905-6. That the sum of $1,000 be appropriated for incidental expenses in the School of Education for the year 1905-6. Voted that these recommendations be approved.