Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884
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224 Expense Account of Public Grounds. Expense. Proceeds. Balance. Old C a m p u s Arboretum University Campus: Labor .. Material P l a n t s from G r e e n h o u s e $10 00 10 00 : 482 37 133 68 300 00 $10 00 $10 00 916 05 Of this sum about $200 may be credited to permanent improvement. The Griggs Farm has been leased during the last year to F. G. Jaques. Up to December 1,1883 the rate of rental was $3 per acre. Since that date the rate has been advanced. This farm has been in bad condition, fences needing repair and a considerable area requiring drainage. The determination to perfect the drainage was made last summer by the Farm Committee, and the work has been done since as fast as opportunity has offered. There has been expended on the farm within the year: Forfencing $5 35 Fortile and ditching 668 45 $673 80 The receipts have been Leaving to be paid from the rental of the current year THE CHEMICAL DEPARTMENT. $480 00 193 80 $673 80 The business transactions of this department consist in the sale of chemicals, apparatus, gas, etc., to students. These materials are purchased in bulk, and are furnished to the students at as low prices as are possible without loss to the department. A custom liad grown in this department of furnishing to assistants their chemicals and other material free of charge, and a very considerable loss has thus fallen upon the laboratory. This matter being brought to my notice, I ruled that assistants should pay for the material used by them in the prosecution of their own studies, at the same rates charged to other students. If the wages paid to assistants are inadequate they should be raised, but by definite payments rather than by indefinite perquisites. The professor in charge has also revised the system of keeping accounts, with decided advantage to the finances of the laboratory. Balance Sheet. Credits, From Sta&e appropriations Students, for materials.. Other sources For apparatus and chemicals . gas repairs and plumbing. freights, etc printing Debits. $649 42 697 33 4 22 $896 18 233 00 83 41 30 00 11 00 $1,350 97 $1,253 59 $97; $19 85 174 00 $193 85 Balance to credit of department. Credits might properly be added for material: To other departments , To assistants THE MACHINE AND CARPENTER S SHOPS. Three purposes are served by these shops: 1. They furnish the means of instruction in practical art to students who take kindred courses of study. 2. They assist in paying expenses by profits on commercial work. 3. Incidentally to the latter they furnish to some students the means of earning some money by which to help them through the University. While this item has its usefulness it should not be expected to yield much profit to the treasury, nor should it be allowed to become a drain upon resources.
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