UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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240 UNIVERSITY AFTER IT FOUND ITSELF and temporary decline in registration when its admission requirements were raised to full high school preparation. The sehool of pharmacy felt the same temporary drop at the same time, full high -school work being required of candidates for the principal degree. Repeatedly President James has emphasized "lopping off at the bottom" as concomitant to the process of building up at the top; and an outstanding event in the former program was the abolition of the academy. Since Draper's reorganization, this badly-housed, cheaply administered division had been prosperous, with over a dozen instructors and three years of work. But in 1909 the Carnegie Foundation questioned its right to existence, stating its doubt that the intermingling of secondary and college students and work was wholesome for University, high schools, or undergraduates. In 1910 the Senate recommended that the academy be discontinued in favor of a training and experimental high school, and upon the first part of this recommendation the Trustees acted, the academy finally yielding up its basement rooms to better purposes the fall of 1911. The growth of the faculty, the expansion of resources, have made necessary constant if minor changes in University policy. One important way in which the new administration effected an improvement was in the steady elevation of salaries. A year after it began a committee of the Trustees reported that it had found the salaries not only too low, but full of incongruities. A study had been made of the changes within the decade in the rewards of men who had been with the University throughout that time. It was found that the average elevation in pay had been from $600 to $750,