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1st. Regarding the conferring full Professorships upon
those persons acting as Lecturers in the different provinces of
that Departnent, the Committee would ask that the conten.plated action be deferred until the June meeting.
2d. They would recommend the employment of Janitor
Nragle for the whole year at a fixed salary pe' annum.
3rd1. That the matter of erecting and establishing a Hospital by the authorities of the University be referred to a speci:l Comnmittee, who shall report concerning the manner and
probable success of sustaining such Hospital, together with
the requisite expenditure neled to establish it, and for its annual manintenance, with instructions to report as early as possible.
1Reueit Johnson moved tlat the Special Committee shall
consist of the Committee on the Medical Department and
Professors Sager and Douglass. Which was carried.
Regent Gilbert presented the following, which was
adopte d.
RBesolved7, That the sum of $4,000 be appropriated from
the State Aid Fund, to reimburse the " Peserve Fund" for
money bolrrowed to enlarge the Chemical Laboratory.
Regent Stockwell, fiom the Commlittee on the Medical
Departlmel.t, to whom was referred the subject of Professors
giving private instruction to students, submitted the following
report, which was acceptedl
The Commnittee on the Medical Department would respectially repolt upon th-e subject of private fees. The Committee are firmly of the opinion that the practice alluded to is
manifestly productive of jealousy and ill-feeling among stulents, wxbhile its tendency is to treat slightingly in the general
class, Lmatters of lesser importance with a view to elaborate
them liore fuilly iin private. In this way members of the general class, not niiembers of the private classes, would be deprived of the fill benefit of instruction that they would otherwise receive.
No man, howeveri exhalted his integrity, is proof against
nmore or less bias from interest. If from one, a fee, whether
greater or less is received, and firom another no such fee is
c.ontributed, it is but natural thllt the former is less liable to
that rigidc examinaition than the latter. If perfect justice is
accorded the latter, he will often feel himself agreived,
andcl ill thus obtain a basis of complaint, which has already
worked injury to the Institution, and, will hereafter in the judg