Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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1920] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 781 was anything left that could burn. The destruction of the Chemical Laboratory very nearly destroyed the Chemical Department. Even so, I understand the legislature refused to reimburse the University for the cost of restoring the roof. The Animal Husbandry barn which was burned a few years ago left that department without shelter for its animals. It was obliged to erect such buildings as it could out of its current funds, and that was the beginning of the financial difficulties of the Animal Husbandry Department. "And now the Department of Horticulture, resorting to every possible device to avoid a deficit the present year, has lost its stock of feed and come within an exceedingly narrow margin of being entirely burned out, so far as its field equipment is concerned. It seems to me that an experience of this kind should be sufficient to cause some kind of provision to be made for the meeting of these disasters, both small and large. If the Agricultural Building should burn today, the University does not possess the means of making any kind of provision for the continuance of our work until such time as a new building could be provided. This sort of playing with fate is, it seems to me, inexcusable on the part of sensible business people." This statement was received for record. At this point, Mrs. Busey resumed her seat with the Board. RULE GOVERNING DELINQUENT STUDENTSSTANDARDS OF INSTRUCTION (20) A communication from the University Senate: April 27, 1920 President David Kinky > 355 Administration DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: The following is a transcript of the recommendations of the Committee on Educational Policy, looking to the improvement of our educational efficiency under the special conditions prevailing at present," which were adopted by the Senate at its meeting of April 12: "It is the opinion of your Committee that similar conditions are likely to prevail in the coming academic year and it is therefore recommended that no new courses requiring additional instructors be planned or offered; that the less important courses be temporarily withdrawn; and 'that--the numbed 6f advanced courses be reduced* to the lowest practical minimum. (Courses replacing present courses should not be regarded as l "new.") ' ' "Your Committee further recommends that a serious effort be made to reduce the size of the sections to such a number as will enable the instructor to supervise and conduct his classes more effectively and to get better acquainted with his individual students. We believe that in sections conducted by a single instructor the number enrolled should not exceed thirty. "We believe that conditions demand a more rigid enforcement of the rules governing the cases of delinquent students to the end that poor and indifferent students be eliminated as promptly as possible. Believing that the term of probation is often unnecessarily long;, your
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