Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 559]

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b o a r d o f trustees

[February 1 4

Illinois a very large proportion of the students devote themselves exclusively to technical studies and neglect those courses which offer the broader cultural training. Efforts to redirect these students to the dead languages and the classics for various reasons have not succeeded and yet the need for the largest possible outlook on life, for a just sense of proportion, and for civic responsibility have not decreased. T h e particular requirement of the State University that it shallfitits students for citizenship remains. T o meet these needs, dormitories offer the most natural and suitable means to develop the humanities. They provide a nucleus from which every degree and form of association among the students can be achieved. They provide a place where all the diversified trends of specialized instruction mingle in the mighty stream of modern thought. They enable the State University to weld together its mass of students so that each student not only better understands his relation to his fellows but also constantly feels the powerful assistance of his comrades forging ahead in the same direction. Every value of dormitories is doubled for freshmen, for w h o m a speedy and correct orientation is the first need and to w h o m an easy road to n e w acquaintances is most important. Finally, all problems of administration in the freshman class are simpler when they focus upon one point, namely, freshman dormitories. For the foregoing reasons your committee respectfully recommend immediate action toward the construction of dormitories sufficient for the housing of freshman men. Laura B. Evans W . L. Noble O n motion of Mrs. Ickes, this report was received for record and for future consideration. • APPOINTMENTS MADE BY THE PRESIDENT The Secretary presented for record a l s of appointments made by it the President of the University. Ambuhl, Frances, Cataloger in the Library, on two-thirds time, beginning February 8, 1928, and continuing until August 31, 1928, at a cash compensation at the rate of eighty-three dollars thirty-three cents ($83.33) a month (this superseding her previous appointment). (February 10, 1928)* Anthony, jeanette, Assistant in Pediatrics, in the College of Medicine, for seven months beginning February 1, 1928, at a cash compensation at the rate of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125) a month. (February 7, 1928) Blue, Francis B., Bookkeeper in the Auditing Division of the Business Office, for seven months beginning February I, 1928, subject to the rules of the Civil Service Commission, at a cash compensation at the rate of seventyfive dollars ($75) a month. (January 14, 1928) Catherwood, Florence L., Assistant in Chemistry, on one-half time, for five months beginning February 1, 1928, at a cash compensation at the rate of seventy-two dollars ($72) a month (this superseding her previous appointment). (February 7, 1928) Chase, Mary Louise, Assistant State Leader and Associate in H o m e Economics Extension, beginning when she reports for duty, and continuing until September I, 1928, at a cash compensation at the rate of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) a month. (January 26, 1928) Colby, Ralph, Assistant in English, for five months beginning February 1, 1928, at a cash compensation at the rate of one hundred eighty dollars ($180) a month. (February 10, 1928) Dawson, Henry G., Assistant in Chemistry, on one-fourth time, for five months beginning February 1, 1928, at a cash compensation at the rate of -thirty dollars ($30) a month. (February 6, 1928) aThe date in parenthesis is the date on which the appointment was made by the President of the University.