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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912
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94 UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S . [March 14 President James reported t h a t Professor Alden has accepted the position tendered him. LEGISLATIVE B I L L S A F F E C T I N G T H E U N I V E R S I T Y . The president called attention to the fact t h a t there is a bill before the present General Assembly requiring the University of Illinois t o t n r n in to the State treasury all fees received from whatever source and for whatever purpose, and to the fact t h a t such a policy not only will; prove a source of embarrassment to the administration of the University, but is undesirable because it leads to a misapprehension in the public mind as to the amount, of money contributed to the support of the University by the State. If this law is passed, it will appear t h a t the money which students pay in toward the support of the University, in the form of incidental fees, etc., is actually appropriated from the State treasury as if it were the proceeds of general taxation. This is likely to produce a very unfair impression. I t will also seem to swell the appropriations to the University, increasing whatever feeling there may be against the- institution on the ground of excessive appropriations. I t . was voted t h a t it is the sense of the board t h a t such/a provision is undesirable, and t h a t the President of the University be authorized to secure a modification in the act if possible. Attention was called also to the fact t h a t a general civil service act has been approved by the committee in the House of Eepresentatives,. and is now before the house on the third reading* and t h a t the only change made in the sweeping phraseology of the law, in accordance with the request of the Board of Trustees, is one which exempts studentsearning their way through college from the necessity of passing t h e State civil service examinations. A P P O I N T M E N T S NOT PREVIOUSLY EEPORTED. The secretary presented the following report of appointments made by President James to fill positions provided for in the budget of J u l y 29, 1910, or by more recent action of the board and not previously filled,. or to fill vacancies caused by resignation: Ash (Mrs.), Ethel, stenographer and bookkeeper in the order department of the Library, at a salary of fifty dollars ($50.00) a month, until further notice, salary and work to begin on her reporting for duty. (Feb. 18, 1911.) Caldwell, Elizabeth, stenographer in the office of the dean of the College of Engineering, at a salary of sixty dollars ($60.00) per month, beginning Jan. 1,1911, until further notice, the appointment to be revocable at the end of any month, vice Lotta M. Manspeaker, resigned. (Jan. 5, 1911.) Dalton, C. E., assistant storekeeper in the Chemical Laboratory, beginning* Feb. 1, 1911, at a salary of thirty dollars ($30.00) for the month of February, and thirty-five dollars ($35.00) a month for the remainder of the school year, i. e., until June 30, 1911, vice Orla Lewis, resigned. (Feb. 4, 1911.) Davis, Reba, loan assistant in the Library, at a salary of twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50) a month, for the period ending Aug. 16, 1911, work and pay to begin on her reporting for duty; this appointment and that of Viola Fraser reported below are in place of the assistant provided by the budget at fifty-five dollars ($55.00) a month. (Jan. 28, 1911.)
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