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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1868
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80 library and cabinets. They shall have charge of the purchase and exchange, under the direction of the Board, of all cabinet materials, books, pamphlets, periodicals or specimens. They shall report, from time to time, the condition of the library and cabinets, and their future wants. XX. COMMITTEE ON RULES AND BY-LAWS. The Committee on Rules and By-Laws shall prepare and recommend, from time to time, by-laws for the government of the Board in its business, and rules for the management of all the departments of the University. XXI. AMENDMENTS OF BY-LAWS. These by-laws may be repealed or amended, at any meeting of the Board, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of the Board. [Signed] I. S. MAHAN, H. C. BURCHARD, A. M. BROWN. After the adoption of the by-laws, the Board adjourned to to-morrow morning at nine o'clock. MORNING SESSION. November 27, 1867. The meeting was called to order by the Regent, at 9 o'clock. Rev. Mr. LAWRENCE conducted the opening exercises. The minutes of yesterday's proceedings were read by the Secretary, and approved by vote of the Board. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MILITARY DEPARTMENT. Gen. BRATMAN, Chairman of the Committee on Military Department, presented the following report, viz: The United States and the State of Illinois have, by appropriate laws, endowed and established an Industrial University, wherein shall be maintained, prominent in its course of studies, the instruction of a portion of the youth of the State in military science and practice. Your committee recognize the wisdom and necessity of these enactments, as well as the duty of giving them full force. From the war of Independence to the present time, the successes and glories which crowned our arms have been due to natural courage, ready genius, and love of country, on the part of an intelligent and virtuous people, rather than to their knowledge of the art and practice of war. The Military Academy at West Point, founded in the early days of the Republic, has furnished graduates barely sufficient, in number, to officer our meagre regular establishment in times of peace. The universal dearth of military knowledge, and the want of competent leadership, remained unobserved during the long period of repose which our country happily enjoyed. But when, only a few years since, the whole nation was, almost
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