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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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STATE APPROPRIATIONS 103 for current expenses. Not for eight years did the appropriations go more than a few thousands above this figure; they then reached a total of a little less than $75,000, although $70,000 more was given the same year for a natural history building.1 This regular stipend was sufficient to admit of only a part of the progress for which the University's friends hoped. Most of the salaries were early restored to the old mark of $2,000 for professors, some equipment was purchased, and additions were slowly made to the faculty.2 But this did not spur Peabody to ask for large sums specially for growth; his calculations of the funds needed were close estimates of requirements on the existing basis, with perhaps slight additions, until almost every cent could be shown to be so necessary that it was difficult for the Legislature to make cuts. Under him steady progress was possible, but not advances by leaps and bounds. For such advances the University was not ready in 1880 or 1885, but it was ready in the last years of his term. There was hardly a want of pressure upon him, for repeatedly he was asked by the faculty to transmit requests for more pay to the Trustees, while from the alumni came protests at the shabby way in which the State was treating the University. Early in 1888 a committee of the Chicago Alumni Club considered means * The general appropriations for the different bienniums were: In 1881, $41,300; 1883, $54,500; 1885, $53,5001 $887, $54,500; 1889, $58,650, and in 1891, $74,200. In 1889, $10,000 was added for I drill hall, and in 1891 $70,000 for a natural history building. The amounts biennially appropriated for current expenses of instruction were, for the six bienniums: $11,400, $28,000, 124,000, $32,000, and $40,000. I Several professors earned larger incomes by holding two or more positions at once: e. g., Dr. Burrill was a professor, was in the employ of the experiment station, and assisted the State • had first $300 and then $600 added to his salary.
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