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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR MR. £. W. BAILEY (11) A request from Professor E. W . Bailey for leave of absence without salary from September 1, 1918, to September 1, 1919, for the purpose of graduate work, with the understanding that the three years of his incumbency as assistant professor up to the present time will stand to his credit in case he asks for the sabbatical privilege at a later date.

On motion of Mr. Blair, the President of the University was authorized to grant this request.

FOUR-YEAR MILITARY CURRICULUM (12) A report from a committee consisting of Professor F . H . Newell, Chairman, and Messrs. Babcock, Weston, Shaw, Talbot, Forbes, and Major McCaskey, appointed February 22, 1918, to consider the curriculum of a four year military course. This committee presented a report to the University Senate on March 11. On June 3, the Senate approved the report in general and directed the committee to complete the proposed curricula. The following report is submitted by the committee: Elements of Proposed Military Curriculum 1. This is based on the theory that a general technological collegiate course is to be followed during four academic years of eight months each in which daily drill and physical training is to be had with continuous enforcement of such military discipline as is consistant with the pursuit of the academic and technological studies. 2. At least 9 weeks of the summer months between the first and second, second and third, and third and fourth years are to be spent in a suitable military camp provided by the United States. At that time and in progressive order during successive seasons, practise is to be 'had under military and civilian instructors in ordinary civil and in military surveying and in map making, in infantry, artillery, and cavalry tactics including riding, in drill regulations, in target practise, in swimming, in sea-coast artillery, in practise marches, and in problems and practical field work. 3. The first year studies are to be essentially those of the ordinary college freshman course, namely:—mathematics, including algebra, trigonometry and analytical geometry; with English language, including rhetoric and themes; elements of drafting and descriptive geometry; chemistry, inorganic and qualitative analysis. Physical training and military drill to be had daily, but alternating in character of work done—emphasis being placed on set up drill for a half hour each day, preferably before breakfast or luncheon. 4. After the first collegiate year comes the summer military camp as described above followed by a short furlough of two or three weeks. During the summer plane surveying (C. E. 31), also map reading and military sketching (C. E. 38) are taken up, with full field work and some theoretical instruction.