Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868 [PAGE 127]

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inent branches of the mechanic arts, as workers in iron, in brass, in wood, and in the typographic arts, who may furnish ready illustrations of the se arts, and allow such students as desire it an opportunity to acquire some practical knowledge of these several trades and their tools. Rooms may be reserved for such shops as may be needed for the work of the University, and its several departments. The possession of a good steam engine will not only furnish the students of mechanical science an opportunity to become familiar with the management of this great motor, but will also provide opportunities, when occasion arises, for experiments in the manufacture of sugar from the beet and sorghum, of cheese, and other products from the garden and farms. I call this early attention to this subject, that the Board may secure wise and well digested plans for the future development of this important department of our work.

APPROPRIATIONS.

Appropriations will be needed soon for the following objects, viz : A bell of sufficient power to be heard over the farm. A good eight-day clock, and perhaps for three or four other clocks to furnish the recitation rooms. These latter are not asked for at present. An additional number of garden tools, for the garden and grounds. , The Committee on Building3 and Grounds will bring before you the further expenditures necessary to preserve the buildings ; and the Library Committee will explain to you the necessity of further appropriations for books and apparatus. It is especially important that an appropriation should be made to fit up, at once, a chemical laboratory. In this connection, I would ask that the Regent be authorized to employ such clerical aid as may be necessary from time to time, to write up the accounts of the several departments, and to take some care of the library. I have already employed Mr. A. Potter for several days to assist in labeling and putting up the books, and in preparing the, warrant statements which accompany this report. The crowd of labor which fell upon me in connection with the examinations for scholarships, and the preparations for the opening, compelled me to solicit the aid of Prof. Atherton, and I ask, accordingly, that his term of service be counted from the first day of February, and that a warrant be issued for his salary for that month.

HONORARY SCHOLARSHIPS.

The law authorizes the Board to make additional honorary scholarships, and provides that these need not be confined to the children of soldiers and sailors. The report of the Committee on Courses of Study recommended that the Regent be authorized to award the unclaimed scholarship of any county to some worthy student from some other county. I would suggest, also, that a rule be established, that upon the failure of applications from sons of soldiers and sailors, the honorary scholarships may be awarded to other worthy young men by the Faculty, in their discretion. This would be, in effect, simply to establish other honorary scholarships, as the Board has authority to do, the additional scolarships being contingent upon failure of applicants for those provided by law.

THE LAND SCRIP AND LANDS,

The attention of the Board is also respectfully asked to the questions concerning the lands already located, and the policy of making further locations. A prudent