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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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Meeting of July 20, 1907.

A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at L39 Adams street, Chicago, July 20, 1907, pursuant to the following notice which was sent out by the secretary July 15, 1907: Upon the call of the president, Mr. W. L. Abbott, there will be a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at 2:00 o'clock p. m., Saturday July 20th, at 139 Adams street,. Chicago—The Edison Building—to consider committee reports and other business duly presented. When the board met pursuant to this call, the following members were present: Messrs. Abbott, Davison, Hatch, Lehman, McLean and Mrs. Evans; absent, Governor Deneen and Messrs. Blair and Madden, and Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Busey. President James was present.

MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT JAMES.

The president submitted the following matters for consideration: 1. The board of trustees created at its last meeting a professorship of Sociology in the University at a salary of $2,500.00 a year. I desire to nominate Dr. Edward C. Hayes of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, to this position, work and salary to begin September 1, 1907. Dr. Hayes is a bachelor of Bates College, and a doctor of the University of Chicago; has been for six years, past professor in Miami University, Oxford. » He is highly recommended by his associates and seems unusually well qualified for the proposed work. * Voted that Edward C. Hayes be elected professor of Sociology in the University of Illinois at a salary of $2,500 a year, work and salary to begin September 1,-1907. 2. I nominate to the position of associate in History, created at the last meeting of the board of trustees, Dr. Louis J. Paetow, of Milwaukee, Wis., at a salary of $1,300.00 a year. Dr. Psetow is twenty-seven years of age and a native of Wisconsin. He received his bachelor's and master's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1902 and 1903 respectively, his dqctorate at the University of Pennsylvania in 1906. He held a fellowship in the University of Pennsylvania during the years 1904-06; has also traveled and studied abroad, chiefly at Paris. Voted that Dr. Paetow be appointed to said position. 3. I recommend that Mr. R. V, Engstrom be appointed associate in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at a salary of $1,400.00 a year, to take the place made vacant by the resignation of K E, Moore, who goes to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as assistant professor of civil en-