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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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125 Peterson, Henderson & Co., seed Jas. Yick, seed J". C. McKee, lumber E. Snyder, petty expense Total $14 16 ' 43 2 95 50 35 67 |1,605 06 The committee report the following bills, with the recommendation that they be referred to the Executive Committee, with power to act : G. H. Burt, sash Flynn & Scroggs, binding G. E. Hessell, harness, etc H. Swannell, paints, oils, etc Geo. Ely, Macksmithing J. W. Dowell, draughting Respectfully submitted. $19 50 76 55 47 45 24 23 8 60 15 00 L. W. LAWRENCE, P. R. WRIGHT, A. BLACKBURN", I. S. M A H A K Committee. : . The Board adjourned until 7:30 P. M. The Board convened at the hour appointed. Mr. J. M. Pearson, Chairman of the Committee on Mechanics, read the following report: REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT. To the Board of Trustees of Illinois Industrial University : After the account given you of the operations of this department, by the Regent, and witnessing, as most of you have, something of what has been done, we do not feel called upon to enter at length into the detail of operations. These can only be ascertained by reference to the books of accounts. I t is, however, needful to state that this newly developed department is growing beyond precedent. I t embraces forty-two students in its operations, and many others are preparing for the course. I t furnishes more labor for those students who wish to labor than all the other departments together. To meet this growth and provide the means to utilize this labor, has required considerable expenditure of means. The larger part of this has been furnished by the liberality of the State Legislature, and has been invested in tools and machinery, as partially shown in the report of the book-keeper. We still need farther appropriations in order to enable the Professor to teach successfully the practice as well as the theory of mechanics. When these arrangements are once completed, we hope and believe that the department will be self-sustaining, that is, that the current expenses will be met by the earnings. Accompanying this we submit statement of Prof. Robinson, of the more immediate wants of this department, and hope that the Board will be able to grant such help as is needed to carry out his sug^ gestions. J~NO. M. PEARSON, R. R. HARRINGTON, Committee. The report was received, and referred to the Finance Committee.
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