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UNIVERSITY OP I L L I N O I S .

[March 1 1 ,

^by the Board of Trustees in the budget for the current year to the Department of Agricultural Extension, be transferred to the account of the Department of Dairy Husbandry; two positions which were provided for in the budget of the Department of Agricultural Extension could not be filled because suitable men could not be found, and it is possible, therefore, to transfer the amount named to the Department of Dairy Husbandry, which needs the funds. On motion of Mr. Hoit, the foregoing request of Dean Davenport was approved.

S U M M E R SESSION OF T H E C O L L E G E OF M E D I C I N E .

(6) A recommendation that the Dean of the College of Medicine be authorized to conduct a summer session of the* College of Medicine on the general lines of former summer sessions, and at an expense not to exceed the estimated income from the fees of the students of the summer session. On motion of Mrs. Evans, this recommendation was approved.

BILL FOR A D D I T I O N A L P L A N S FOR T H E ARMORY.

(7) A bill from Mr. W. Carbys Zimmerman, State Architect,^ for professional •services rendered in the preparation of additional plans for the new Armory (actual time and materials), three hundred ninety-one dollars and twenty cents ($391.20) ; these additional plans having been ordered by vote of the Board of Trustees at the meeting of July 13, 1912 (p. — ) , and the plans having now been drawn and being in the possession of the supervising architect. On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, it was voted to authorize the payment of this bill, when approved by the Supervising Architect. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. -Dunne, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Montgomery.

A P P O I N T M E N T TO D E A N S H I P OF T H E C O M B I N E D C O L L E G E OF L I B E R A L ARTS A N D SCIENCES.

(8) A recommendation that the President of the University be authorized to appoint Dr. Kendric Charles Babcock, Specialist in Higher Education of the Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C , as Dean of the Combined College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at a salary of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, work and salary to begin as soon as Dr. Babcock reports for duty . On motion of Mrs. Evans, this recommendation was approved, the vote being as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Montgomery.

APPOINTMENT TO PROFESSORSHIP OF BOTANY.

(9) A recommendation that the President of the University be authorized to appoint Dr. William Trelease as Professor of Botany and head of the Department of Botany, at a salary not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, work and salary to begin as soon as Dr. Trelease reports for duty. ' This recommendation was approved, the vote being as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Montgomery.

S T A T E M E N T ON T H E SUBJECT OF C I V I L S E R V I C E .

(10) The following statement on the subject of civil service a t the University: As the members of the Board of Trustees are aware, the University was put under the general provisions of the State-wide civil service law by the action of the last Legislature. I, believe that all the officers of the University have attempted to carry out in good faith the provisions of this law. I believe, moreover, that the State Civil Service Commission has shown a willingness to meet the wishes of the University, so far .as they felt they could do so in accordance with the provisions of the law. I have no doubt myself that if we are going to secure efficiency, as well as the elimination of politics from the State service, the law will have to be amended in important particulars, but certainly no individual officer of the State and no public, board.of the State can afford, to do anything which would justly incur the charge of being opposed to an efficient merit system.