Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1908 [PAGE 392]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Sept. 10

SUMMER SESSION, 1907. 6. I present a brief report of the work of the summer session by the director : President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois: #IR—I wish respectfully to submit below a report of the work of the summer session for 1907: In December, 1906, the Board of Trustees made an appropriation of $15,€00.00 for the conduct of the suminer session. They voted, also, to award free scholarships to all high school teachers in Illinois, and to all other teachers in the State who could matriculate in the University. Of the amount appropriated something over $12,000.00 has been used. This amount has been divided approximately as follows: Salaries for instruction $10,000 00 Special lecturers . . : 800 00 Circulars, bulletins, postage, etc 1,300 00 ' The general plan and arrangement for the conduct of the session was under the control of a committee, consisting of Professors Barton, Hollister, Barto, Dexter and myself as chairman. This committee decided upon the departments to be represented in the session, and the amount of money to be expended in each. Twenty-five departments were this year represented, and 119 courses were offered by fifty-seven instructors. Daily lectures were offered by prominent men outside o£ the University during the first six weeks, and a series of twelve special lectures was given by members of our own faculty. The total registration was 555. About 350 of these were teachers of whom 273 availed themselves of the free scholarships, and practically every county in Illinois was represented. This year about twenty-five teachers from the Chicago schools were in attendance, which has not occurred before. The registration in the various departments is indicated below: Agriculture 12 Art and Design 48 Botany 33 Chemistry • 61 General Engineering Drawing " 29 Economics 74 Education : 86 English and Rhetoric .• ' 441 French 78 German 118 History • 99 Household Science ;. 12 Latin 55 Manual Training 23 Mathematics 218 Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 54 Mechanical Engineering, shop 30 Music 48 Philosophy .' .' 13 Physics : 69 Physical Training 147 Political Science 52 Psychology '. 36 Spanish 11 Zoology and Entomology 85 It is interesting to note the very large registration in mathematics, modem languages and English. There is an indication, also, that we might very well increase the work offered in history, economics, and political science.