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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1924
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1924] U N I V E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS 477 T h e Utilities Research Committee reserves the right to discontinue, after discharging all obligations incurred, the expenditure for any of the several lines of investigations, or with the approval of the Engineering Experiment Station to change the distribution of the funds to the several lines of investigation, or to substitute new lines of investigation. Utilities Research Committee Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ATTEST: Comptroller of the University of Illinois Approved as to form and validity of Contract: O. A. Harker Legal Counsel of the University of Illinois O n motion of Mrs. Blake, this offer was accepted, and the Secretary and the Comptroller were authorized to execute the contract. GRADUATION WITH HONORS (5) T h e University Senate recommends that the present system of college honors be replaced by a University system, that special honors be discontinued, and that graduation with honors be substituted and made available for all colleges of the University, in accordance with the following plan: It is recommended that the plan here submitted for Honors D a y and for graduation with honors shall be applicable to those undergraduate students at Urbana w h o are enrolled in the College of Education or in a four-year curriculum requiring only high-school preparation for matriculation. Where the term average appears in this report, it is to be understood to imply the same method as that used by the University for determining the average grade of students for other purposes, for example in the selection of a Valedictorian, or in the determination of group averages. I. H O N O R S D A Y . T h e Committee recommends that there be established an annual University Honors D a y in accordance with the following plan: I. That on Honors D a y there shall be a University Convocation to be addressed by some distinguished speaker. The members of the Senate shall wear academic costume. 2. That announcement be made at that time of the winners of cups or other trophies for scholarship, awarded within the period between convocations and in accordance with conditions approved by the Council of Administration. 3. That election of students to those honorary societies be announced where the basis of election meets a standard of scholarship approved by the Council of Administration. 4. That announcement be made of those organized groups whose average is equivalent to 0.20 above the average of all undergraduates on the basis of the methods n o w employed by the University authorities in determining group averages. 5. That announcement be made of the names of undergraduate students w h o have distinguished themselves in scholarship during the two semesters previous to that in which the announcement is made; with the exception that in the case of freshmen the basis of award shall be the grades for the first semester. There shall be three grades of such honors:
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