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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[March 5,

instructional, scientific, administrative, or labor staff to positions under the authority of the board (this question having been raised by the President of the University, at the request of Professor E. C. Schmidt, at the meeting of December 19, 1912, p. —, a t which time consideration of the subject was postponed). It was moved that in the opinion of the Board of Trustees one member of a family at a time is sufficient representation on the instructional, scientific, administrative, or labor staff of the University, and that the rule of the board above referred to on this subject is to be interpreted to apply to reappointments as well as to original appointments. It was moved to amend this motion by the addition of the following: words: "Provided, that this interpretation shall not apply to persons in the employ of the University at the present time." When, after prolonged and full discussion, the vote was taken, theamendment was lost, and the original motion was adopted as given above.

H E A R I N G OF C O M M I T T E E OF D E N T A L ALUMNI.

(18) A further, statement in regard to the request from the Alumni Association of the College of Dentistry, that this college be reopened (see the petition, signed by one hundred twenty-five alumni of the College of Dentistry, presented at the meeting of February 12, 1913, p. 177) ; this request having been supported by communications from Dr. Alfred Owre, Dean of the College of Dentistry of the University of Minnesota; Dr. Edward C. Kirk, Dean of the School of Dentistry of the University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Charles R. E. Koch, Secretary of the Dental School of Northwestern University, and Dr. Frederick B. Moorehead, Chairman of the Committee on the reorganization of the College of Dentistry; the board is urged to reopen the College of Dentistry on the ground that the interests of the community in this, Department of Medicine and Surgery can never be adequately served except by privately endowed or state supported institutions. This statement was received for record. In this connection, a hearing was given to a committee representing the Alumni Association of the College of Dentistry, consisting of Mr. Elmer D. Brothers, formerly Professor of Dental Jurisprudence in the College of Dentistry; Dr. George W. Cook, formerly Dean of the College of Dentistry, and Dr. A. C. Kingsley, a graduate of the College of Dentistry of the class of 1909.

A D D R E S S TO T H E L E G I S L A T U R E A N D R E Q U E S T FOR APPROPRIATIONS.

(19) The following address to the Forty-eighth General Assembly, ' accompanied by detailed requests for appropriations for the support of the University for the biennium 1913-15. ADDRESS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS TO THE FORTY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS IN THE MATTER OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE BIENNIUM 1913-15. GENTLEMEN: iWe beg to submit herewith our requests for appropriations for the support of the University of Illinois for the biennium 1913-15. The people of Illinois have revealed during the last twenty years an ever plainer and more definite purpose to make the University of Illinois an institution fully worthy of the commonwealth and to place it on a par with the leading institutions of similar character at home or abroad. This sentiment was well stated in the following joint resolution passed by the Forty-sixth General Assembly in 1909 : "WHEREAS., I t is the evident will of the people of this commonwealth that the University of Illinois shall be made so complete in its organization and equipment that no son or daughter of this State shall be obliged to seek in other states or other countries those advantages of higher education which are necessary to the greatest efficiency of social service either in public or private station; and, "WHEREAS, The State of Illinois has imposed upon this institution, in its agricultural and engineering experiment stations, and in its graduate school, the duty of carrying on extensive and important investigations of vital interest to the agricultural industry and education of. the State, and the conduct of these investigations calls for the very highest ability and the most thorough training on the part of those entrusted with their supervision; and, "WHEREAS, The great progress of this institution in the last five years has attracted the attention of the whole country and made other institutions desirous of drawing away the members of the faculties in said University; and, "WHEREAS, The present schedule of salaries is not sufficient to enable the institution to complete on equal grounds with other state and private universities in the United States; therefore, be it