Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926 [PAGE 104]

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1924]

U N I V E R S I T Y O F ILLINOIS

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4. Building for Architecture and allied subjects 5. Building for Pharmacy to provide room for about double the present number of students 6. Completion of Lincoln Hall 7. Completion of the present Library building for other uses 8. Engineering testing laboratories 9. H o m e Economics building 10. Electrical Engineering laboratory 11. Another unit addition to the Medical buildings 12. N e w Dental building 13. Administration building 14. M u s e u m building 15. Shop laboratories 16. Mining laboratory addition 17. Addition to complete the Auditorium 18. Addition to complete Music building 19. Addition to complete Vivarium 20. Service buildings for agriculture and physical plant 21. Field Houses for intramural games in physical education, for women The total amount of money necessary to erect all these buildings will depend, of course, on the time of their erection, their size, and architectural character. At present prices and with the plans that are at present in mind the amount would probably be in the neighborhood of nine millions of dollars. In deciding upon the buildings to recommend, I feel very strongly that we must be guided primarily by our needs and not by our likes. I would like to see a beautiful campanile on our Campus; a beautiful little theater in which our students could study their dramatics; a separate Fine Arts Building; more dormitories for young women; and possibly dormitories for men, altho I a m not yet convinced that their erection at an institution like this is good educational or public policy. There are many other fine things that it would be well for us to have. The time m a y come when public sentiment would support appropriations for such purposes. I do not believe that it would do so now, nor do I believe that we would be justified in making requests for such purposes now, either from the point of view of public willingness to grant them or public ability to pay for them. These are, in general, the principles which have guided m e in preparing the budget which I now recommend be presented to the Legislature. Having determined on the total amount needed for operation I requested the Comptroller, M r . Lloyd Morey, with whom, as well as with Professor White and the deans, I have been in conference on this whole matter, to distribute the total among the items prescribed by the state budget law in such proportions as our needs seem to demand, and the following assignment to the various items is in accordance with M r . Morey's judgment as well as m y own. PROPOSED STATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR OPERATION, 1925-27 Total for Per A n n u m Bicnnium Salaries and Wages £3 050 000 $6 100 000 Office Expense 140 000 280 000 Travel 40 000 80 000 Operating 460 000 920 000 Repairs 150 000 300 000 Equipment 290 000 580 000 Improvements other than Buildings 120 000 240 000 Total $4 250 000 $8 500 000