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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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204 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January 24, was Connected with the department for forty-five years, and who has given such long and faithful attention to the development of this feature of instruction. On motion of Mr. Carr, this request was granted. N. C. RICKER APPOINTED PROFESSOR EMERITUS (32) A recommendation that Professor N . C. Ricker be appointed Professor of Architecture, Emeritus. On motion of Mr. Carr, this recommendation was approved. COOPERATIVE WORK IN AGRICULTURE (33) A letter from the Dean of the College of Agriculture as to the inconvenience arising from the cooperative agreement between the University of Illinois and the Federal Department of Agriculture. January 20, 1917 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois M Y DEAR M R . PRESIDENT: In answering 3'Our question the other night as to ways in which the influence of the U. S. Department of Agriculture wras injurious to us, I forgot in my offhand answer to mention the principal point. The States Relations, Service is doing all it can to reorganize the Agricultural Colleges of all the States upon its own ideas of organization. It is desirous of introducing three directors under the dean; one director of extension, one of research, and one of teaching. This reorganization, according to service rather than subject, results in the division of the agricultural staff into three groups more or less independent of each other, regardless of departmental lines, because each is responsible to a separate administrative officer. The natural function of the head of the department, who knows something about the subject, is destroyed, and three separate administrative positions erected in its place. When, however, these three groups—in agronomy, for example—begin to teach different doctrines, the only officer who has authority to assemble the agronomy staff is the dean of the college, acting over the directors, whereas the only man who knows anything about the relative merits of differences in the subject matter is the head of the department whose position has been destroyed. How, under these circumstances, can the institution as a whole speak through one mouth? Very truly yours, E. DAVENPORT This letter was received for record. APPOINTMENT OF MR. T. W. NICOLET (34) A recommendation of the Dean of the College of Agriculture that Mr. Tell William Nicolet be appointed Instructor in Landscape Gardening beginning March i, 1917, and continuing until the close of the academic
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