Caption: Booklet - UI Senate Committee for Establishing UI Constitution (1915)
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HISTORIC \i. STATEMENT 13 has just been passed and aw.tits onl} the signature of the vernor to mala effective It such radical changes arc to be made it would seem wi r that the should conic upon the initiative of the universities themselves rather than from ; ician At my rate it should be done onl) after a careful study of the whole situal i. This senate committee at the University of Illinois is entering ther u] n : an auspicious work. It is expected that it will be engaged at 1 t one ; ir < l a report will he prepared. The members of the hoard of trustees of the university arc much inten I in this undertaking for the\ realize the need of a definition of their dut; md pow ^ md they will be < nl\ too glad to have a statement made of the relation of the board to the state government, on the one hand, and the relations of the board to the university, on the other hand. Four leading members of the board—President William L. Abbott, Mr. Fred L. Hatch, for fifteen years a member of the board, Mrs. Mary K. Bu y. and Mr Laura B. Evans—were present at this initial meeting and ga\ it their a rt approval. The ifteen members of the senate committee- that is to carry on tin inr rtant work during the coming year represent (either as graduate or former instructors some eighteen leading universities, three law sch< Is, thr techni .1 school5 two colleges, all in the United States and five foreign universiti< technical colleges. During the remaining meetings of the spring, an effort wiis m to : HISS carefully and extensively the scope of the problem that present 1 itself and the best methods of attack. The neral plan of •. >rl lap ! up n involved the a p p o i n t m e n t of a c o n s i d e r a b l e n u m b sub com to which were referred questions for in\ stigati< . with tin 1 \| - understanding that such sub-committees were to i II- t and dip the information available on the question at issue id t s u r e s t alt tive lin « of procedure, rather than to formulate Jus us In is \ a mass of prepared material was laid b fore tl I intuit t in a br tim( placing it in p cNsion o\' the experien of other ins < tutionn at hom and abroad. These sub-conunitt were furtherm iipj I for KpoeiHe purpo i and disebai I upon the nuph ii t • /•••] o tl I the memhe] of the gem d munitt n I in i on man) such subordinate bodi< nul in\ it iiuuv I ihhfi in th( II of tin. preliminary s u n \ \\\ virl tl ? and of their s< n i < meiulH i of th I luuitt tin (*»* n i l i a r w it Ii t b r g r o u n d w k r tl d all i •/. " di t m 1 <'\> of t lit- d m tl form f \ rilt of (hi* wi willi I di it t b\ tl it d. urn .it ii ii |n h, ini \
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