Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906 [PAGE 140]

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UNIVERSITY

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ILLINOIS.

[June 27

connection with both College and Station. These four men occupy positions of extreme difficulty and great responsibility, and their service is practically continuous. Finally, we must have men for these positions whose financial and business instincts are strong, else our exepriments will not be planned and conducted along useful lines. Only maximum salaries will retain this class of men in our service for any considerable time. The disaster of frequent change is evident and leading farmers are outspoken in favor of better salaries for the heads of important departments. It is therefore with full realization of all the conditions involved that I make these recommendations concerning our four leading positions, fully believing that the Trustees will no longer maintain a schedule of salaries inferior to those of any other institution, particularly as we now occupy clearly the leading place among them. Because of our rank among the colleges and stations of the country the salaries of young men just beginning may well be comparatively low. We are starting graduates at $50 a month, and they are glad of the opportunity to become identified with prominent lines of work in progress here and that upon almost any terms. It is graduate work to them, and we can fill these minor positions at low figures. To illustrate this latter point I insert a list of all employes above the grade of common laborers and not holding Trustee appointment. Names starred are college graduates:

Allen, E . R Apple, J. E Cass, George Coffey, -W. C *Eckhardt, W. G Gustaf son, A. F Hegnauer, L Higgins, A. L *Howe, R. B Jorgensen, F . A Kidder, A. F Logan, C. C Lohman, H *Matson, G. C Oathout, C. H Ogle, J. L *Shinn, J. R *Thompson, J. A *Worthen, E. L $35 00 and living 50 00 40 00 60 00 40 00 and living 35 00 and living 60 00 and living 35 00 and living 40 00 45 00 40 00 40 00 and living 35 00 and living 50 00 and living 50 00 and living 65 00 60 00 40 00 and living 50 00 and living expenses expenses expenses expenses expenses expenses expenses expenses expenses expenses expenses

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I think we are justified in this policy; indeed I believe the tendency is to pay young and inexperienced men carrying little or no responsibility a far greater recompense for services actually rendered than we are willing to pay to those really carrying the burden. An increase of a few leading positions to comparatively high figures insuring ability and stability is not therefore necessarily a question of expending more money. It is rather a question of distribution of funds between those who do and those who do not carry heavy responsibilities. HEADS OP DEPARTMENTS NOT CONNECTED WITH STATION. EXPERIMENT

DR. D. MCINTOSH, as Professor of Veterinary Science, $2,100. Dr. Mcintosh has been a faithful teacher. He came many years ago at $1,800. Though the cost of living has increased enormously and though his duties have been more than doubled he has never had an increase of salary. It ought to have come long ago. I hope the recommendation may be looked upon with favor.

PROFESSOR ISABEL BEVIER, as Professor of Household Science, $2,100.

Miss Bevier has shown rare tact and organizing ability. Moreover she spends money freely in keeping herself abreast of developments in her line of work. I believe the time has come when she should have this salary.