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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

(Jan. 17

Voted that a free scholarship in the summer session be granted to some representative of as many high schools in the State as the President of the University should deem wise. 7. A proposed bill intrusting to the University of Illinois the conduct of a State geological survey. Voted that the President and the legislative committee be authorized to secure the introduction of said bill into the Legislaure. 8. The matter of extending the privilege of scholarships in the Domestic Science Department to the College of Science was referred, at the last meeting of the Board, to the President for further report. The President recommends that the privilege of said scholarships be extended to the College of Science. Voted that the recommendation be approved. 9. A request from the College of Engineering that engineering drawing be made a separate department of instruction and Professor V. T. Wilson be made the head of the department. Professor Wilson seems to be a very capable and efficient man; but, in the opinion of the President, the subject is not one of such importance as to justify erecting it into a separate department, as the word "department" is now understood in the University, and giving the head thereof the same position in the Senate, for example, as is accorded to the entire School of Law, or School of Music, or Department of Civil Engineering. The object to be attained by the creation of such a department may, perhaps, be reached in another way, in regard to which a recommendation may be made later. 10. The'appointment of a Secretary to the President. Voted that Dr. Wallace N . Stearns be elected private secretary to the President, salary $ i o o per month, to begin when he begins service. 11. The request for a two days' encampment of the University Regiment at the State Agricultural Fair in the coming September. Voted that the matter should be left, with power to act, with the President of the University, the Committee on Agriculture, and the H e a d of the Military Department. 12. The question of the relation of the Medical Department to the University. I t was voted that it is the sentiment of the Trustees that medical education should be incorporated as an integral part in the work of the University in the same sense as agriculture and engineering education. T h e vote upon this was as follows: Yeas—Messrs. Bayliss, McLean, Hatch, Nightingale and McKinley and M r s . Abbott, M r s . Alexander and M r s . E v a n s ; nay, Mr. K e r r i c k ; absent, Governor Deneen and Messrs. Bullard and Barber. I t was further voted that to this end the necessary steps should be taken to request the Legislature for authority to acquire the property of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the city of Chicago, by affliation with wThich the University has for the past eight years been carrying on successfully the work of medical education.

F E E S D U E FROM STUDENTS.

T h e Registrar presented a statement of fees due from students of the various departments of the University as follows: University fees, second semester 1903-1904; Academy fees, second semester 1903-1904; University S u m m e r School fees 1904; College of Medicine for the year ending J u n e 1, 1904; College of Medicine