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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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1919] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 277 PROFESSOR LYBYER'S LEAVE E X T E N D E D (23) The following statement: Professor Albert Howe Lybyer has been granted leave of absence without pay to April 1, 1919, to enable him to go to Paris in connection with the Peace Conference. It seems that he can not get through his work as soon as he had hoped. He makes a request for a further extension. Professor Lybyer was given leave of absence until September 1, 1919, without pay. ASSIGNMENT OF JANITORS (24) A complaint of the Janitors' Union that assignments of labor of the members of the Union have been made in violation of their understanding. This matter was referred to the President of the University with power to act. SCHOLARSHIP RULES (25) A recommendation of the University Senate as to the granting of scholarships after the freshman year. January 6, 1919 Dr. Edmund J. James, President DEAR M R . PRESIDENT: The University Senate at its meeting of December 17, 1917 voted, on the recommendation of the Committee on Standards of Scholarship, to make the following recommendations to the Board of Trustees: That the present scholarship regulations be so revised as to make the continuance of a scholarship after the freshman year conditional upon the student's attainment of a standing distinctly above the average, represented roughly by grades of B or higher on our present scale of marking. That the method of selection in the first instance be revised so as to afford a better guarantee of ability and preparation. The provisions governing the County and General Assembly Scholarships, being embodied in acts passed by the General Assembly, cannot, of course, be revised except by legislative action; but the agriculture, home economics, and ceramics scholarships, having been established by action of the Board of Trustees alone, can be amended by the Board at any meeting. It would thus be proper for the Board of Trustees to embody in the regulations for agriculture, home economics, and ceramics scholarships such provisions as the Senate has recommended. They could provide, for example, that a nominee for one of these scholarships should stand within the first third of his high-school class, or should pass entrance examinations in certain subjects, or both; and that in order to retain one of these scholarships from year to year the student should make an average grade of B in his University work.
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