Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1878 [PAGE 10]

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10 5. For instruction of band as per request of Prof. Snyder, $15.

6. For additional apparatus for the calisthenic classes, $25. 7. To cover expense of models already made for drawing and designing classes, and for additional ones needed, $10. 8. To cover clock and other articles needed for civil classes, $30. engineering

A t the request of Dr. Prentice, I again ask your attention to the propriety of ordering at once the large model of the horse from Dr. Anzoux of Paris. A t least six months must elapse after the order is made before the model can be finished. There is an unexpended balance of the state appropriation nearly sufficient to cover this purchase. I desire to call your attention to the music for our daily general exercises in the chapel. This daily assemblage of the whole body of students is in my estimation one of the most important educationary influences of a general character amongst us. I t affords opportunities for familiar practical lectures on subjects not taught in classes and yet of high importance in the formation of character. The general discipline of the University depends largely upon this daily assembly. To give it additional attractiveness and power, a choir is organized, and with the aid of Prof. Robinson I have undertaken to procure a new organ without calling upon the friends of the University for aid. Miss Patchin has at my request undertaken the lead of the choir and with a success which has been gratifying to us all. I wish some appropriation might be made to compensate her for these valuable services. A t least the compensation she receives for private lessons for the same time.

HEATING APPARATUS.

Our heating apparatus has been found liable to many accidents, and to frequent failures, and lately a new difficulty has shown itself. T h e steam force pump is inadequate for the work required of it. I t cannot draw from the well and lift to the present tanks the water required. A remedy is demanded at once or we must frequently be left without steam and with cold rooms. A new and more powerful pump will cost $200 or $300, as I am informed. Two other expedients offer themselves : 1st, to employ additional labor to work the pump, lifting the water first into a barrel or hogshead and thence to the tanks, or, 2nd, the construction of two new tanks over the water closets. This would probably be the cheapest, and would serve some good purposes. But ultimately a new pump must be purchased.

APPROPRIATIONS FROM STATE.

Several weeks since, Governor Beveridge visited the University to ascertain the amounts of the appropriations which it would be needful to ask from the approaching general assembly. In connection with Mr. Gardner, I laid before him our wants, subject to the revision of the board of trustees, and he deemed the following worthy of recommendation, the board of trustees concurring.