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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 23

of beds. He states that the University needs at least two hundred patients for proper instruction of medical students in the general hospital. He urges the need of a building to house the nurses and also a building for a training school for nurses. The University, he says, is now prepared to furnish at least a large part of the instruction necessary in such a school. A properly organized training school should materially diminish the expense of nursing. He points out that the building erected for the Children's Surgical Institute remains, up to the present, unequipped and unoccupied. D e a n D . J. Davis m a d e a statement concerning this matter. After discussion, on motion of M r . W h a m , this matter was referred to a special committee, consisting of M r . Trees, M r . Barr, and the President of the University, to confer with Governor Small and Director Jenkins and to report at the next meeting of the Board. HESSEL LAND (2) The following recommendations: 1. I recommend that the Comptroller of the University be authorized and directed to offer Mr. J. F. Hessel of Champaign at once $i,;oo an acre for the forty-six and a fraction acres of land owned by him east of the Illinois Central track in the neighborhood of the Stadium. O n motion of M r . Trees, this recommendation was concurred in. 2. I recommend that i Mr. Hessel refuses this offer condemnation proceedf ings be instituted by the University at once to secure this land. The land is needed in the work of the University. Our Experiment Station people need more land and this should be turned over to them for some of their purposes as soon as we get it. It will be needed also for purposes of physical education in so far as, and when, it is not in use for agricultural purposes and in the not distant future it will be needed for buildings. To permit it to be subdivided into city lots would block the necessary future development of the University since the value after subdivision and building would put i beyond the University's ability to purchase. t The Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station as well as his predecessor have both said that we need more land, the former estimating the amount necessary at a thousand acres and the latter five hundred acres. This land in connection with other recent purchases in that neighborhood would ease the situation somewhat. O n motion of M r . Barr, the condemnation of this land was authorized. O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, the President of the University was authorized to employ special legal counsel in this matter. WAGES OF JANITORS President Noble stated that representatives of the Building Service Employees International Union had requested a hearing concerning the wages of janitors employed by the University. M r . Carrothers, M r . Nelson, and M r . John Walker, w h o were introduced, m a d e statements concerning this matter and retired. O n motion of M r . Trees, this matter was referred to the President of the University for investigation and report. T h e Board resumed its discussion of matters presented by the President of the University.