Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1876 [PAGE 105]

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105 The Executive Committee and Regent were requested to memorialize the Legislature for the following wants of the University:

For taxes on lands '44 library cases and furniture ' cabinets, wards, Palaeontology casts 11 Physical Laboratory apparatus: ' 4 Agricultural Museum * 4 ' Agricultural and Horticultural experiments 44 grounds around new building .. 4 • library, $1,000 per a n n u m 4 ' Geological Cabinet..... , .t $6,000 2,500 2,500 1,000 1,500 3,000 2,000 2,000 2,500 $23,000

The following resolutions were passed:

Resolved, That the Faculty be authorized to receive students for special studies in Architectural ©rawing and similar practical branches, under such conditions as they may deem expedient; Provided, that the conditions of the law shaJLl be observed, and that all students thus received be reported to the Board of Trustees. Resolved, That the Corresponding Secretary be authorized to arrange for Farmers' Institutes, without expense to the University, and to call upon Professors of the tjniversity for such services as lecturers as they may be able to render without detriment; to their work with their classes ; Provided, that the traveling expenses of such Professors, and all lecturers, shall be paid by the localities benefited by such institutes, or without charge to the University.

The following, offered by Mr. Sabin, was passed:

WHEUEAS, We have heard, with sincere sorrow, of the death of the late Hon. Ezra Cornell, of N. Y., the eminent philanthropist and founder of Cornell University; therefore, Resolved, That we express, as Trustees of a kindred institution, our sense of the eminent services rendered by the deceased to the cause of education, and especially our appreciation of his wise and noble use of the great wealth which he possessed. When other men equally wealthy b u t less wise shall have been forgotten and their riches with them, the name of Ezra Cornell will be remembered with honor and gratitude, and the wealth he so generously gave to mankind will still remain a blessing to his country and his kind. Resolved, That we tender to his bereaved family and friends, as also to the officers and friends of Cornell University, this expression of our sympathy with them in the irreparable loss which •has fallen upon them. Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased, and that they be published in the " Illini " and elsewhere.

Mr. Gardner was authorized to settle with Mr. Gehlman. Mr. Gardner was authorized to sell the remaining 160 acres of the Griggs Farm, at $60 per acre. Adjourned.

MARCH 9, 1875.

The Board met at the University parlor at 4 o'clock P. M. Present: Messrs. Brown, Boyd, Blackburn, Gardner, Mason, Pickrell and Sabin. Absent: Gov. Beveridge, Messrs. Cobb, Gillham and Slade. In absence of the President, Mr. Brown was elected chairman. Mr. Blackburn opened the session by offering prayer. Letters from Gov. Beveridge, Mr. Cobb and Mr. Slade, expressing regrets at not being able to attend this meeting, were read. After organizing, the Board took a recess to meet at 7:30 P. M., at the Doane House.