Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 329]

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1919]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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That the Registrar be authorized, subject to the concurrence of the State Board of Law Examiners, to make the following changes in our present plan of administering entrance examinations in Chicago: (1) To hold five sets of examinations a year, about March 15, June 15, August 25, September 25, and December 15. (2) To assess fees on all candidates in these examinations, except candidates for admission to the University of Illinois, according to the subjects taken, at the rate of $1.00 per unit. (3) To schedule these examinations as a whole or in part in the evening, if the demand for evening examinations should prove to be strong. The words underlined in the paragraph numbered (2) constitute the amendment referred to above. The idea of charging the fee of candidates for admission to the University as well as of all other candidates was in no way an essential part of the plan. If you approve this recommendation in this amended form, I shall be in a position to take the matter up with the State Board of Law Examiners. Sincerely yours,

CM. MCCONN

Registrar

On motion of Mr. Abbott, this recommendation was approved.

R E C O G N I T I O N O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y IN G R E A T B R I T A I N AND IRELAND (6) A statement that under instructions from President James the Registrar has been corresponding for some time with the officers of British universities concerning the granting of credit to University of Illinois students who transfer to some one of these universities. Mr. McConn reports that the universities of Oxford and Edinburgh, and Queen's University of Belfast, have notified him that any student from the University of Illinois in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who has to his credit here at least sixty-five semester hours, is eligible for admission as a junior foreign student and to advanced standing in proportion to his additional work here. Most of the other universities of Great Britain and Ireland under their general statutes give substantially equivalent recognition. These new connections with foreign universities are of importance as showing the standing which the University in the opinion of sister institutions now holds.

This statement was received for record.

KEEPING THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OPEN DURING THE SUMMER (7) A recommendation from Dean T. A. Clark and Dr. J. Howard Beard, University Health Officer, that the University Hospital be kept open during the coming summer. For this purpose it is necessary to retain Miss L. O. Condit for one additional month from July 1 next to August 1 next. Miss Condit's present engage-