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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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THE BUDGET 267 ments and reappointments of course pass under the President's hand; but he never forces an unwelcome appointment on a department. For one thing, this administrative flexibility is necessary to give the President the leisure for representing the University before the public that his position as State officer requires. Gregory was inclined to travel widely and to speak before any available audience, from a rural gathering to a national convention of educators. Peabody spoke little, but Draper very much. Dr. James has also keenly appreciated the value of the speechmaking that can be done at professional and trade gatherings, banquets, and civic conventions, especially within Illinois. It gives the President, too, the proper freedom for blocking out new policies and examining them in all their bearings. Even if he never left the campus the President would always be in danger of being overburdened with this labor of administrative planning and consultation; and at a State university he must be away from the campus much of the time. Finally, it is necessary in order also to allow the heads of many departments scope for unimpeded service to the State. The making of the University budget is a difficult and protracted process. During the winter of every second year there has to be prepared, in collaboration with State officers, an estimate of the receipts from the mill tax for the biennium, and a bill appropriating this much in a number of round sums for general purposes, of which instructional work and the erection of buildings are the two chief. If the tax does not produce the estimated amount, the budget has to be confined to that sum. The work of preparing this appropriation bill falls to the President, in consultation with the deans:
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