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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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I t was voted to refer both requests to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for consideration and report at the next meeting of the board. BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN ACCOUNTANCY. 5. The following communication from Dean David Kinley concerning the Board of Examiners in Accountancy: Feb. 17, 1911. President E. J. James: DEAR ME. PRESIDENT—I desire to raise for your consideration the question whether the time has not come for the University to ask to be relieved of the care of the examinations in accountancy. I have favored the retention of. this burden up to a recent time, because I felt that, especially in the conduct of our business courses, we needed to enlarge the circle of friends of the University among accountants. I was particularly anxious to retain the connection as long as I thought there was some prospect that we would undertake evening courses in business training in Chicago. You will remember that some investigation .of the conditions in Chicago was made with a view to doing this, but the way was never opened. !Now the work is being done by others. Consequently, the advantages to be obtained from our connection with the work have been reaped, so far as I can see, to the full. The great disadvantage of retaining this work, from my point of view, is that as it grows it is taking more and more of the time of our University people from their regular work without any means of recouping the University for the loss of their time. Professor Robinson, for example, thinks reasonably enough that his classwork should be reduced because he is asked to take care of the details of this work. The amount of relief asked for is greater than the department can afford with its limited staff. For that reason the law should be changed so that he could be paid from the accountancy fund and part of his salary released for me to get an assistant, or in some other way to make good the time he is losing from the work; or else he should abandon it altogether. It .is impossible for me to give the work attention any longer. Its demands upon me are not very large now, and they are irregular, but when they come, strenuous. Very truly yours,

DAVID KINLEY.

• I t was voted that this communication be received for record, to be taken up for action at the next meeting of the board. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH. 6. The nomination of Dr. Raymond M. Alden of Leland Stanford University as professor of English in the University of Illinois, at a salary of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) per annum, work and salary to begin Sept. 1, 1911. Upon motion of Mrs. Evans, and by the following vote, the president of the University was authorized to appoint Dr. Baymoncl M. Alden, Professor of English in the University of Illinois, at a salary of four thousand dollars ($4,000) per annum, work and salary to begin September 1, 1 9 1 1 : Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Bahrenburg, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Meeker; noes, none; absent, Mr. Anthony, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Governor Deneen, Mr. Moore.