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$2,306,000. The University's income For last year from Federal sources was $229,159; from fees, $271,245; Prom sales and misce] laneous sources, oilier than gifts, $374,200. The extension of General Assembly fre< scholarships lias cut this year's fees considerably. The rise in prices of nearly 100 per < at has increased the cost of operation. The University has not been able to meet the market in salary payments to its staff. The demand on it for teaching staff and equipment is increased by what is necessary for 50 per cent more students than it ever had before. The enrollment of this semester (Sept. 1919—Feb. 1920) is 8,052. The next college year, 1920-1921, will probably see at least 800 more. Extension calls for assistance in the State have increased fifty per cent. Its building has practically stopped, while more students are calling for additional class rooms and laboratories. The need for research equipment and men has also probably increased fifty per cent. In other words, its income is substantially stationary, the value of that income has fallen one-half, the number of students to be educated and the outside demands for help have both increased fifty per cent. Therefore, its income to carry its work on as efficiently as before should be three times what it was. How Your University is Hampered In consequence, these are some of the conditions that prevail today at your University. 1 Classes too large to teach properly. Three hundred sixty-seven classes eontain 35 or more students, main ranging from 10 to 65 or more. 2 Inadequate instructional and administrative staffs. At leasl L O additional O instructors and research workers are needed now in the University,

:: Lack of equipment. Expenditures for equipment at (Jhampaign-Urbana alone

have had to be OUl $ 7 0 , 0 0 0 below last

year's. Even such apparatus as microscopes is insufficiently provided in

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