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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS.

[June 24

On motion of Mr. Grout, and by the following vote, recommendations 1 to 10 above were approved: Yeas, Governor Deneen, Messrs. Abbott, Blair, Davison, Grout, Hatch, Meeker and Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Busey.

THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING.

4. A letter from President Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation far the Advancement of Teaching, concerning the admission of the Universtiy of Illinois to the benefits of the Carnegie Foundation.

576 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, June 10, 1909. DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES-—At the meeting of the executive committee held

on June 4, it found itself able to act in the case of only four institutions, the Universities of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Toronto. In case of the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota the executive committee took no action toward the inclusion of the agricultural college. In taking this action it did not mean to take an antagonistic attitude toward agricultural education, but simply to indicate its belief that agricultural education was not yet sufficiently differentiated to enable it to act with certainty. The reasons which induced the executive committee to delay action in the case of the Universiy of Illinois were chiefly these: 1. The committee hesitates to approve, as admission to the foundation would imply, the arrangement by which, in maintaining on the campus a preparatory department, the University of Illinois intermingles secondary and college students and work. It is, in our judgment, questionable whether such overlapping is wholesome, whether viewed from the standpoint of the University, from that of the secondary school interests of the State, or from that of the individual students affected. At any rate, the subject is one upon which we desire further information. 2. The situation is more definite in respect to the-University's relation to medical education. As, to this there appears to us to be no doubt that the standards for which the University now makes itself responsible do not accord with our present policy in dealing with the professional departments of academic institutions. I have also to report that I brought before the executive committee the" recommendation for a retiring allowance in the case of William L#. Pills« bury, Esq., registrar and secretary. He would, under the rules, be eligible to a retiring allowance in the case of an institution on the accepted list. The committee has, however, taken the position that 'it would not extend' a retiring allowance to professors in institutions not upon the accepted list, except in the case of well-known men who had rendered extraordinary service as teachers, or in the case of men whose health was impaired and for whom further service was, therefore, a serious physical burden. The committee has felt that all other cases might well await the time when the institution had regularly completed its connection with the foundation. I am Very sincerely yours,

HENRY S. PRITCHETT.

President Edmund- J. James, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Voted (1) t h a t t h e quest ion of the relation of the academy to the University be referred for consideration to the Committee on Instruction of the Board of Trustees and conference with a committee of t h e University Senate. (2) T h a t the question of the relation of the Medical School to the University be referred to the Committee on the College of Medicine for further report. Further, that the dean of t h e Medical School be informed t h a t the registrar of the University must approve all the applications for admis-