Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926 [PAGE 50]

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1924]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Dated at Los Angeles, California, this twelfth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty-four. Attest: Carrie M . Hodges (seal) O. A. Harker Marjorie Hodges (seal) O n motion of M r s . Busey, this report was accepted. O n motion of M r . Trees, the option dated July 12, 1924, was accepted, and the Legal Counsel was instructed to proceed to close the purchase.

MOVING STEBBINS AND WALCOTT HOUSES

(23) A recommendation that $13,000 be appropriated to meet the expense of moving the Stebbins and Walcott houses to the north end of the Forestry, of repairing the buildings, and of furnishing the Walcott house. These houses are to be used as residences for women students. O n motion of M r s . Evans, this appropriation was m a d e , by the following vote: A y e , M r . Armstrong, M r s . Blake, M r s . Busey, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r s . Ickes, M r . Noble, M r . Trees; no, none; absent, M r . Blair, M r . Small, M r . Trimble. LEGISLATIVE BUDGET, 1925-27 (24) A statement concerning the budget for 1925-17 to be presented to the next General Assembly. Statements concerning college and departmental needs were m a d e by D e a n Eycleshymer (Medicine), D e a n D a y (Pharmacy), D e a n Moorehead (Dentistry), D e a n Chadsey (Education), Director W i n d sor (Library and Library School), Director Stiven (Music), Director Huff (Physical Welfare), D e a n H a r n o (Law), D e a n K e t c h u m (Engineering), D e a n M u m f o r d (Agriculture), D e a n T h o m p s o n ( C o m merce), and D e a n Babcock (Liberal Arts and Sciences).

GOLF CLUB

(25) A statement concerning the transfer of the University Golf Club to the department of Physical Education. M r . H . B . Ingalls, Secretary-Treasurer of the Golf Club, m a d e a statement concerning this matter. EAST TOWER OF UNIVERSITY HALL (26) A statement from the Supervising Architect concerning the east tower of University Hall: "On the 8th of August we had a heavy windstorm from the northwest which developed weaknesses in the masonry work of the east tower of University Hall. The supports under the south wall of this tower were poorly planned when the building was built and the southeast corner of the tower has always been weak. About fifteen years ago I did some shoring in the upper stories which relieved the situation, but due to the softness of the brick and the fact that the upper stories of the tower are open to the weather, a disintegration has been going on which has resulted in the present condition. "I considered i an emergency situation and conferred with Professor Talbot t about how best to make the structure safe as there was no doubt in my mind but that we ought to preserve the tower during the l f of the building i i could possibly be ie f t done. A heavy steel column has been put up inside the southwest corner of the tower and we will immediately start transferring the loads from the upperfloorson to this steel column. W e will then cut into the wall and replace the defective masonry so as to make the structure safe.