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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April ii,

O n motion of Mr. Herbert, these recommendations were concurred in. CARTER- PEN NELL TRUST: APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEE ( <) A recommendation that the Board do now appoint the President of the University, the Dean of the College of Agriculture, the Dean of the College of Engineering, and the Head of the Department of H o m e Economics a committee to act for the Board in administering the Carter-Pennell trust, and that this committee be directed to make an annual report of its operations to the Board of Trustees on or before March I. O n m o t i o n of M r s . Blake, these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n were approved.

REPORT ON SCHOLARSHIPS

(6) A report on scholarships. Scholarships in ceramics were established by the Board of Trustees to be assigned "on the nomination of the Illinois Clay Workers' Association." Scholarships in agriculture and household science were established by the Board to be assigned on recommendation of "the respective county domestic science associations organized in connection with farmers' institutes," or on recommendation of the State Farmers' Institute. Both in ceramics and in agricultural and household science scholarships the Trustees provide that, in case there be additional acceptable candidates recommended after thefirstfrom any county or district, such additional candidates, not exceeding five from any one county or district, may be assigned to other counties or districts for which there are no acceptable candidates. In the case of the county scholarships established by law, it is provided that "when no return is made from a county, the President of the University may assign to that county from some other county the student found to possess the next highest qualifications." Such assignments have come to be a matter of course. The four music scholarships exist by virtue of a contract between the Board of Trustees and Captain Thomas J. Smith. The scholarships in law are entirely the creation of the Board of Trustees. From this statement, it is evident that the Board can not modify the number of these scholarships, except in law, without asking home economies' associations, county farmers' institutes, the State Farmers' Institute, the Illinois Clay Workers' Association, and possibly others, to agree to a change in our rules. This seems inadvisable. The University has tied its hands, and I do not see how we can well change the situation now. The only way in which any saving can be effected is to reduce the extent of the practise of assigning scholarships to counties in which there are no candidates while more than one candidate presents himself from another county. Under the State law and the action of the Board, this is left to the President of the University, in all excepting the agriculture and the household science scholarships, in which cases the Registrar of the University may appoint suitable candidates to such scholarships in counties from which nominations have not been made. I have already instructed the Registrar not to make such appointments as a mere matter of routine or solely for the purpose of providing a full list of nominations for all the counties. I think that this part of the law and regulations should be administered in such a way from now on as to make assignments only in really needy cases. Moreover, I think that it should not be left to the Registrar, on his own initiative, tofillany scholarships. This makes the appointment a matter of mere routine. I therefore recommend that the rule of the Board providing that the Registrar may appoint suitable candidates to scholarships in household science be amended so as to read that "the President of the University m a y appoint suitable candidates, etc." O n m o t i o n of M r . Trimble, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved.

COLLEGE PLACE LOTS

(7) The Comptroller reports that, in accordance with the action of the Board on March 13, 1923, 94, has purchased the following lots from Miss Fanny B. Sherfy. Lots 1, 86, he 96, and 144 in College Place Addition to Champaign.