Caption: Booklet - UI Senate Committee for Establishing UI Constitution (1915)
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I l l MR OF TRANSMI1 I AL dune 7, 1915 The Committee on Organization and Efficiency authorized by vote f the Senate February 6, L911, ai the request of th President o( the University, submits herewith its report in the vm of a proposed constitution for the University of Illinois. A( tmpanying this document is a brief historical statement regarding the work done and the methods employed. The Committee has restricted its proposals to the field of the interna] oi anization of the University; it proposes no chang 9 in tli acts of the General Assembly under which this institution has l" n established. The Committee lias endeavored also to keep nstantly in mind the specific character of the state university, the [>i>o11unities, responsibilities, and limitations o( which differ in no small degree from those of institutions organized or conIn ted under private, ecclesiastical, or municipal auspices. Tie* report in its present form is the result of prolonged Liberation and the careful weighing of numerous alternative f o r m - of o r g a n i z a t ion. I n c e r t a i n p o i n t s it differs m a t e r i a l l y from 1 the first tentative proposals adopted. Of necessity it fails to •IUIMMIV in everv detail the final conclusions of anv single member of the Committee. Thus it represents, in part at least, merely a i Qnensus of opinion,—a majority; but a majority whose person nel diffei d with practically every seriously controverted point, it i^ possibly 1 « consistent but perhaps less onesided and more p r a c t i c a b l e t h a n any plan that might have been d r a f t e d by a singb j o n or in a more limited time. Respect fnlh submit ted, B. H. BODE \Y. A. OI DPA V\\\ m ERNEST I;. DEWSNI P n. I., [limns JULIUS < IOEBEL A. Y T U WOY HKBBEBT W. M UMFORI) P, I WINI OB C. M. MCCONN Mi \K\ i: \v VRD N< rrhiri/ Chun
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