Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906
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2 UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS. COMMUNICATION FROM V I C E PRESIDENT BURRILL. [Sept. 27 To the Board of Trustees'. I have the honor to report to you that the semester opened on Monday, September 12th, under favorable circumstances. Four members of the corps of instruction did not report on that day for service because of their own illness; one was absent by arrangement until September 17th on account of the marriage of his brother; one did not arrive from abroad until the 13th, and one by arrangement did not report until September 26th. Two were in town on the 12th and reported late in the day. Otherwise, all members 'of the instructional force and all employes were present and ready for duty on time. The new appointees without exception seemed to be capable and anxious to demonstrate this by their work. With the exception of the new quarters on the upper floor of University Hall, the class rooms, laboratories, etc., were all ready and in order for the beginning of the term. The special rooms mentioned were available for use on tne 15th instant. The registration was completed for those applying sufficiently early within the two days regularly devoted to this work. Those who were late in arrival or in beginning were registered as opportunity was found after the instruction began. In order further to secure promptness on the part of students in this matter the Council of Administration recommends that a fee of $1.00 be imposed for registration after the date designated and set apart for this purpose. It was voted that beginning with registration of 1905 a fee of one dollar for late registration should be charged all students except those coming to the University for the first time. It is not possible now to report the number of students enrolled, but it is apparent that there is a very considerable increase over that of last year. The upper class men have returned in at least as large proportion as usual and there have been issued to date 967 permits to register to new people, against* 926 a week later in the season last year. . SUMMER TERM. From the report of Thomas Arkle Clark, director of the summer term for 1904, the total registration is shown to have been 241 against 229 last year. By subjects the attendance for the two years were as follows: Subjects. Art and Design Astronomy Botany Chemistry Drawing, General Engineering Economics and Science of Government. Education and Psychology English Literature French German History L a t i n ...Manual Training Mathematics Music Physics Rhetoric Zoology. 1903 23 1904 17 17 35 31 7 36 34 100 22 35 61 115 35 65 16 22' 18 26 45 74 15 19 40 111 34 31 53 24 The director says: "These figures seem encouraging when we take into consideration the fact that the percentage of teachers registering this year is larger than ever before, especially those teachers who have graduated from one or another of our normal schools, and the additional fact that practically every other summer school in the country has a smaller registration this year than last, due no doubt to the St. Louis exposition.
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