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SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

The Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University met on Tuesday, March 12, 1872, at four o'clock P. M., in the University Building, the Eegent in the chair. After the meeting was called to order by the Eegent, and the scriptures read and prayer offered by him, the roll was called, the following gentlemen answering to their names : Messrs. Blackburn, Brown of Pulaski, Brown of Sangamon, Cunningham, Goltra, Hayes, Harrington, Mahan, McMurray, Pearson, Pickard, Pickrell, Pullen, Scott, Slade, Yan Osdel, Wright and the Eegent—18. Absent:—Messrs. Anderson, Bowen, Bateman, Brayman, Cobb, Edwards, Galusha, Greenleaf, Griggs, Johnson, Lawrence, Scroggs, Wagner and the Governor. The Eegent stated that letters had been received from Messrs. Brayman, Bowen, Cobb, Edwards, Galusha and Judge Lawrence, regretting their inability to attend this meeting of the Board, and giving the respects and good wishes to the gentlemen of the Board. On motion, the reading of the minutes of last meeting was dispensed with. The Eegent then proceeded to read his report:

ANNUAL REPORT OF REGENT.

To the Board of Trustees of Illinois Industrial University : GENTLEMEN :—Four years have now elapsed since the University first opened its doors to students. These years, through the good providence of God, have been years of prosperity and rapid growth, and the University has now reached a position which fully justifies your plans, and affords a most brilliant promise for its future. In tendering you this annual report, I am no longer offering you a scheme for a doubtful experiment, but the yearly record of a great and prosperous institution—an institution which, while rooted in the hearts of thousands of warm and active friends at home, has already won a name across the Atlantic and in distant States. But while it thus repays your care in the past, itwill still demand new and not less wise and earnest care for the future. I t s progress must orever tax the best thought and the noblest efforts of its officers and trustees.

REPORT OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

The Executive Committee has held meetings nearly every month of the year. The reports of it proceedings have been published, and furnished each month to the Trustees. The record is herewith again placed before you for your information and approval. The great building enterprises in which we have been engaged, heav received the close and careful attention of the Committee, and have con-