Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870 [PAGE 100]

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84 The report of the Committee on Nominations was received and adopted. The Regent here took the Chair, and the following resolutions, offered by Mr. Blackburn, were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the Board records with sorrow, the death, since its last meeting, of General Edward Kitchell, an efficient friend and laborer in the cause of Industrial education, and a recently appointed member of this Board; and that we present our sincere sympathy and condolence to his bereaved family in this, their hour of deep affliction. Resolved, That the Recording Secretary be directed to send a copy of these resolutions to the widow and family of the deceased. Mr. Brown, of Chicago, offered the following resolutions: 1st. That the salary of Prof. Snyder be made $2,000, instead of $1,200, as at present. 2d. That the Committee on Library be instructed to procure all the Chicago daily papers. 3d. That the Executive Committee be instructed to endeavor to procure the passage of a law, by the next Legislature, prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors within a radius of three miles of the Illinois Industrial University. The 1st resolution was referred to the Committee on Faculty and Courses of Study; and the 2d, to the Finance Committee. The 3d resolution was adopted. Mr. Johnson offered the following resolution : Resolved, That as Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University, we believe that the girls of the State of Illinois are equally entitled to an Industrial edu. cation with the boys; therefore, be it ordered, that they be admitted to all the classes of the University, and subject to all regulations, except military drill. Mr. Brown, of Chicago, moved to amend, by striking out the words "except military drill." Lost. Mr. Wright offered the following substitute to Mr. Johnson's resolution: Resolved, That, hereafter, female students shall be admitted to the lecture and recitation room of the University, on the same terms and conditions as male students. Mr. Burroughs offered the following, as a substitute for Mr. Wright's substitute: WHEREAS, The law of Congress declares the end of this University to be the liberal education of the industrial classes, with no limitations to one sex * more than another; therefore,