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Show Our reasons for asking for this advance in salaries were set Vorth in our petition of two years ago. The facts there cited related to the increase in the cost of living during the past ten years, the increase in salaries in other occupations, and the greater demands made of the Faculty; upon members but with no corresponding advance in salaries. These reasons for our former petition hold with even greater force now. Second. Faculty, Concerning the policy of the University as it affects the it seems to us more imperative that departments already estab- lished sh uld be put upon a proper financial basis than that new departments should be added. The multiplication of departments with poor fi~ nancial support will, in our opinion, weakenflrather than strengthen the institution. Third. - Concerning the conditions upon which leave of absence is granted to professors, we feel that the present method is very unsatis- factory and unjust to some departments. We favor a regulation that will give equal Opportunities to all, such as the privilege of leave of ab; sencane year in schn. or ten, if the term need be longer, on full salary, onc-half- salary, or some other fraction that shall be applied to all alike. Respectfully submitted, Wm. M. Stewart, Joe. F. Merrill, Byron Cummings, Richard R. Lyman, Goo. M. Marshall, R. L. McGhie, G. Coray, Levs Edgtr Young, Robert H. Bradford, Ephraim G. Gowans, V. C. Ebaugh, Wm. G. Roylance. Milton Reunion, |
