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UNIVEESfTY OF ILLINOIS.

[Sept. 21,

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

FOR THE

Year Ending August 31, 1898.

M E E T I N G OF S E P T E M B E R 2L, 1897.

T h e B o a r d of T r u s t e e s of t h e - U n i v e r s i t y of I l l i n o i s met i n t h e T r u s t e e s ' room, L i b r a r y hall, in U r b a n a , Illinois, a t 3 o'clock p . m., T u e s d a y , S e p t e m b e r 21, 1897. T h e m e m b e r s p r e s e n t were Messrs. A r m s t r o n g , B u l l a r d , McKay? M c L e a n , Morrison, R a y m o n d a n d S m i t h and Mrs. F l o w e r a n d M r s . C a r r i e l ; those absent were Governor T a n n e r a n d M e s s r s . I n g l i s and Pearce. T h e m i n u t e s of t h e m e e t i n g of J u n e 8th were approved as p r e s e n t e d by the Secretary, on motion of M r s . Flower.

COMMUNICATIONS F R O M P R E S I D E N T D R A P E R . PHYSICAL TRAINING FOR MEN. /

lo the Board of Trustees. I have.had more anxiety about better provisions for physical, training work among the men than touching any other one matter, during the summer vacation. It is not too much to say that under all conditions which have grown up there is practically no opportunity at all for general work of this character among the entire body of students. The military work has come to monopolize Military Hall; and not only so, the structure has never had any adaption whatever to gymnasium purposes. I was disappointed at the failure to construct the addition planned by the Professor of Architecture, but since I have come to know all of the facts I do not see Low it was possible without either incurring obligations considerably in excess of all previous understandings about the matter, or contracting the structure so as to- make' it insufficient for our needs. Since my return I have many times carefully in-