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U N I V E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS

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from 1883-90, and as Professor of Physical Diagnosis, Associate Professor of Medicine and Professor of Clinical Medicine from 1899 to date (without salary), be retired effective September 1, 1929, with the rank of Professor of Clinical Medicine Emeritus. Dean Davis also recommends that Dr. William Mclntyre Harsha, who served as Professor of Surgery (without salary) from 1891 to 1925, when he retired from the faculty, be given the rank of Professor of Surgery Emeritus, effective September 1, 1925. I concur in these recommendations. O n m o t i o n of D r . Noble, these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e adopted.

ADJUSTMENTS IN THE BUDGET

(8) Recommendations of adjustments in the salary budget, as of September 1, 1929: 1. That the salary of Professor L. C. Dillenback, Professor of Architectural Design, be made $6,000 instead of $5,000. O n m o t i o n of M r s . Grigsby, this increase w a s authorized. 2. That the salary of Professor W . C. Huntington, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, be made $7,000 instead of $6,500. O n m o t i o n of M r . Barr, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s adopted. 3. That Assistant Professor Arthur Hamilton be made Associate Professor of Romance Languages, on indefinite tenure, at a salary of $3,500 a year. O n m o t i o n of M r s . B u s e y , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s adopted. 4. That the salary of Assistant Professor R. R. Barlow of the School of Journalism be made $3,500 instead of $3,000. 5. That the salary of Mr. L. F. Rickey, Associate in the Department of Agronomy, be increased from $3,600 to $3,800. O n m o t i o n of M r s . E v a n s , these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e adopted. 6. Dean Davis reports that Dr. S. A. Levinson, Director of the Hospital Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Pathology, who was recommended by the Dean for appointment on three-fourths time at $2700, is disinclined to accept the position for less than $3000. This is on a full time $4000 basis and seems to m e not unreasonable. The Dean recommends that the $3000 salary be granted. T h i s increase w a s approved. 7. At the July meeting of the Board I reported that Professor A. B. Coble had been offered $10,000 by a sister institution. I pointed out the desirability of meeting that offer and was informally instructed by the members present to say to Professor Coble that the salary offer would be met. I so informed him and he agreed to stay with us. I ask formal approval of this action. I may add that this salary as a maximum is becoming more usual in the better class of institution. If we are to keep our best men we shall, it seems to me, be obliged to make this our maximum salary, bearing in mind, of course, that only a very fewcan expect to get it. In some departments other universities are paying as high as $12,000. I do not myself think it necessary for us to go beyond the smaller figure as our maximum, certainly for a good while to come. However, $10,000 is becoming so usual that it will be impossible for us to avoid paying this unless we are willing to acknowledge that we cannot compete for the few really first-class men in certain departments. In this connection I recall to your attention the Legislative Resolution, passed by the General Assembly in 1909, on the matter of University salaries: "It is the sense of this General Assembly that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois should adopt such a policy as will in their judgment attract to, and retain in, the service of the university and the State, the best available ability of this and other countries." O n m o t i o n of D r . N o b l e , the salary of Professor C o b l e w a s fixed at $10,000 a year, beginning S e p t e m b e r 1, 1929. O n m o t i o n of M r . Trees, the President of the B o a r d w a s requested to appoint a special c o m m i t t e e of three m e m b e r s (including the Presi-