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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1944
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1044 BOARD OF TRUSTEES A brief answer to this is that the present administrative controls represent an historical development and as they now exist are of a character quite consistent with their origins. To be more explicit, under the law providing for the organization and maintenance of the Illinois Industrial University: The trustees shall have power to provide the requisite buildings, apparatus, and conveniences; to fix the rates for tuition; to appoint such professors and instructors, and establish and provide for the management of such model farms, model art, and other departments and professorships, as may be required to teach, in the most thorough manner, such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, and military tactics, without excluding other scientific and classical studies. They may accept the endowments of voluntary professorships or departments in the University, from any person or persons or corporations who may proffer the same, and, at any regular meeting of the board, may prescribe rules and regulations in relation to such endowments and declare on what general principles they may be admitted: Provided, that such special voluntary endowments or professorships shall not be incompatible with the true design and scope of the act of congress, or of this act; and they shall, as far as practicable, arrange all the regular and more important courses of study and lectures in the University, so that the students may pass through and attend upon them during the six autumn and winter months, and be left free to return to their several practical arts and industries at home during the six spring and summer months of the year, or to remain in the University and pursue such optional studies or industrial avocations as they may elect: Provided, that no student shall at any time be allowed to remain in or about the University in idleness, or without full mental or industrial occupation: And provided further, that the trustees, in the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this act, shall not create any liability or indebtedness in excess of the funds in the hands of the treasurer of the University at the time of creating such liability or indebtedness, and which may be specially and properly applied to the payment of the same.1 Until 1901 the educational administration of the University was centralized chiefly in the hands of the Council of Administration. This Council was composed of the President, the Vice-President, the Dean of the Graduate School, the Dean of Undergraduates, the deans of the separate colleges, and the Dean of Women. The Council held frequent meetings and concerned itself with matters of internal administration as well *Laws of the United States and State of Illinois concerning the University of Illinois, Section 7, pp. 31-32, Urbana, 1908. [26 — A.C.E. Report]
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