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UNIVERSITY O F I L L I N O I S .

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It was voted to adopt the recommendation, and that the President be authorized to select a suitable candidate for the place. 4. . The Faculty of the College of Science recommends that an Administrative Board of Museums be created, consisting of the curators of the various collections now in the possession of the University, with general responsibility for the supervision and care of these collections. It was voted to adopt the recommendation, and that the President be authorized to nominate the members of such board for the ensuing year. 5. The University Senate recommends that a new grade of instructor* be established in the University, to be known as Associate, and of a rank between instructor and assistant professor, and that associates be appointed for a definite term of two years or more. .Voted that such recommendation be adopted. 6. The University Senate recommends that the Senate be enlarged so as to include all the full professors in the University. Voted that such recommendation be adopted. 7. The University Senate recommends that the degree of bachelor of arts be conferred upon John C. Dallenbach at the next annual commencement. Mr. Dallenbach has taken up three years in the six-year medical course of this University and is now taking his fourth year in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. Voted that this recommendation be adopted. 8. The following report, made to the Senate by its committee on educational'policy upon the question of granting the bachelor's degree in the six years' medical course, was approved by the Senate March 5, 1906: "Your committee has been asked by the Council of Administration to report to this body upon the inquiry whether it is sound educational policy for the University to decline to give its bachelor's degree to students who have taken here three years of our six years' medical course and have fulfilled the requirements for the fourth year of that course at some other medical college than the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago. Your committee has carefully considered this question, and believes that it would be an injurious policy so to limit the University action in respect to this degree. The six years' course leading to two degrees was organized and offered for the primary purpose of inducing as large a number of prospective physicians as possible to take a sound scientific college training in connection with their professional studies. The effect of the suggested restriction would be to discourage from taking this course with us all those who do not intend to graduate in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and would thus defeat in a measure the purpose of the offering. "According to our present system, a student who has taken his three years of medical work here, and a fourth year of work equivalent to that prescribed by us at a medical school of high standing, has earned his bachelor's degree and should not be deprived of his right merely because he has chosen one medical college rather than another. As the professional school itself cannot grant this degree, it must be given by the University or not at all." 9. The Director of the School of Music recommends that the salary of Mr. Van den Berg, instructor in piano, be fixed at $1,500.00 for the academic year, 1906-07, beginning Sept. 1, 1906. Voted to adopt this recommendation. 10. The Head of the Department of Modern Languages and the Dean of the College of Literature and Arts recommend that a position be created for the teaching of Spanish, the rank not to exceed Assistant Professor, at a salary not to exceed $1,500.00. Voted that the recommendation be adopted and that the President be authorized to nominate candidates for such position.