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UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

[April 27

Voted t h a t the sum of $400, or so much thereof as may be needed, be appropriated for the purchase of the necessary typewriters and desks, etc. INSTALLATION CEREMONIES. 10* A committee has been appointed upon the program connected with the installation ceremonies of next October. Dean Kinley has been made chairman of this committee, and the program is now being worked out rapidly. The time set by the committee is Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the 17th, 38th and 19th of October. It will be necessary to make an apropriation at present toward the expenses of this occasion. Voted that the appointment of the committee be approved, also the time fixed for the installation exercises. Voted further that an appropriation of $600 be made toward the expenses of this occasion. NEW INSECTARY. 11. A letter from Professor Forbes was submitted as to the construction of a new insectary. Voted that the communication be referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds and the Committee on Agriculture, with instructions to consider the question of the desirability of putting up the building with funds in hand as well as that of location, a n d report to the Board. PORTLAND EXPOSITION. 12. The Governor of the State requests that the University shall make an exhibit at the Portland Exposition to be held during the coming summer. The commission undertakes to pay the expense of taking the exhibit from the University to Portland and return it to the University. Voted that such an exhibit be prepared and sent to the Portland E x position. 13. The dean of the College of Literature and Arts approves a recommendation of the head of the department of English literature that Mr. Harry G. Paul be elected assistant professor of English literature, at a salary of $1,200.00 for the coming academic year. Voted that M r . Paul be elected to such a postiion at a salary of $1,200.00. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION. 14. At the meeting of the Board held February 20, 1905, a resolution was passed asking his opinion on the advisability of expanding the work of the department of education. The President appointed a committee to report upon this subject. The report is as follows: "It is the judgment of your committee that a school of education separate in administration from the existing colleges, and with a separate student registration, is not advisable, because of the difficulty and friction which such a plan would introduce into our administration, and because all the educational purposes of such a school can be well accomplished without it. "We recommend, however, that all, officers of instruction in the University who offer courses especially intended for the preparation of high school teachers be organized as a group, to be known as the 'faculty of the school of