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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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1905, was the most desirable type of record available, but it is now obsolete. One of the features of the proposed new system is that it lends itself readily to easy duplication of records by machinery, thus saving the large amount of clerical work now involved in making transcripts and in copying records of students for the offices of the deans of the various colleges. On motion of M r . Armstrong, this recommendation was adopted, and the appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Armstrong, M r . Barrett, M r s . Freeman, M r . K a r r a k e r , D r . Meyer, Mr. W i l l i a m s ; no, n o n e ; absent, M r . Barr, M r s . Hopkins, M r . H o r n e r , Mr. T r e e s , M r . Wieland.

MEDICAL AND DENTAL COLLEGE LABORATORIES BUILDING

(6) A recommendation that the University's medical group in Chicago, including the Research Laboratory and Library unit, be officially called "The Medical and Dental College Laboratories Building."

On motion of Dr. Meyer, this recommendation was adopted.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY SCHOLARSHIPS

(7) A draft of a letter to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education, the Honorable Harry C. Stuttle, concerning the effect on the University of the passage of Senate Bill 136. February 25, 1935 Honorable Harry C. Stuttle, Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Springfield, Illinois

DEAR SENATOR STUTTLE:

The attention of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and of myself has been brought to Senate Bill 136 to amend the law in relation to General Assembly Scholarships by providing that "For the school years of 19351936 and 1936-1937 each member of the General Assembly is authorized to nominate and appoint two additional such persons and shall file the name and address of each such person with the president of the university on or before the first day of the school year." I understand that this bill has been referred to the Senate Committee on Education and I am therefore sending you, as its Chairman, the following information which I think should come to the Committee's attention in its consideration of the bill. It is not my purpose now to discuss the merits of the bill. Your Committee and the Senate will do that at the proper time. However, I believe it is my duty to present to your Committee certain pertinent facts which should be carefully considered in connection with any proposal to increase the number of free scholarships at the University. As you know, the appropriations for the operation of the University are made from (a) State funds derived from State taxes, (b) Federal funds appropriated by Congress for certain specified purposes, and (c) the income from tuition fees charged students who do not have scholarships. This income from student fees is deposited in the State Treasury and is appropriated by the General Assembly to the University. It makes up about sixteen per cent of the total operating budget of the University and about twenty per cent of that part of the budget which is for teaching purposes. It is obvious, therefore, that any reduction in the income from fees, due to the increase in the number of free scholarships, must be made up by an increase in the appropriations which are made from tax receipts. Senate Bill 136 would create two additional four-year scholarships for each member of the General Assembly for the University year beginning in September, 1935, and two more four-year scholarships for the year beginning in 1936. There are 204 members of the General Assembly so that this would provide for a maximum of 408 additional scholarships in 1935 and 408 more in 1936. In other words, during the year 1935-36 there might be as many as 408 additional students on scholarships attending the University and during the years 1936-1939 inclusive there might be 800 more students on scholarships. As the proposed