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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Colleges and Schools 221 normal school or high school libraries; 20 in U. S. or state libraries; 13 in business or corporation libraries, and 7 in state library commission offices. Since 1911 the Library School has conducted each summer, courses in library methods, intended primarily for librarians and library assistants in Illinois libraries, who are not prepared or cannot afford to spend a year in a regular library school. The great majority of students attending these courses are from Illinois libraries, and the help thus given by the University has been more and more appreciated by librarians and library trustees of the state. A total of 229 students, 165 from Illinois libraries, have been enrolled since 1911. 8. THE SCHOOL OP MUSIC Instruction in music was provided almost from the time the University was established.13 For many years, however, the instructors received no salary from the University, their only compensation being the fees collected from their pupils.14 A suggestion made to the Board of Trustees by Prof. T. J. Burrill in 1892, while Acting Kegent of the University, that music be included in the regular system of instruction,15 resulted in an appropriation of $300 by the Board for the formal establishment of such a department. The suggestion was however repeated by President Draper in his first annual report in 1895, and upon being invited by the Trustees to prepare plans for the inauguration of a department of music, he reported that the department could be established on a very satisfactory basis at an expense that would not exceed $1,600 per annum.16 The department was accordingly established* In 1897, Captain Thomas J. Smith of Champaign, then a member of the Board of Trustees, began to urge upon his col* leagues the desirability of reorganizing the Department of Music; of putting it upon the basis of a distinct college of the University; of employing a dean with sufficient assistants; *Cf. Catalogs, 1873, p. 48; 1876, p. 59; 1877, p. 64; e t c "Kept., Univ. of 111., 1878, p. 10; ibid, 1880, p. 252 "Ibid, 1802, p. 205 "Ibid, p. 96
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