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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888
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30 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Trustee Bennett offered the following resolution, which passed: was Resolved, That the President and Secretary of this Board be, and are hereby authorized to execute a lease of the Griggs farm to H. H. Darby at $640 per annum, as proposed and recommended by the Farm committee, for the period of four years, from March 1,1887, with the privilege of either party to terminate same upon giving the, other party six months notice thereof prior to the first day of March in any year. Adjourned to meet at 8 P. M. EVENING {SESSION. The Board assembled at the time appointed. Present as before. The Committee on Legislative Appropriations made the following report: To the Trustees of the University oj Illinois, GENTLEMEN : Your committee, charged with the duty of considering the needs of the University and the aid to be asked for it of the General Assembly at its next session, has attended to this duty and respectfully reports as follows: An estimate is presented of the cost of carrying on the usual work of the University for the two years following the first of July, 1887, and of the resources within the control of the University for meeting those expenses. EXPENDITURES, PER ANNUM. Salaries for instruction— Eegent Ten professorsat $2,000 Four " 1,800 tk Three 1,600 Seven instructors at average of $900 Two additional professors Salaries for services Fuel and l i g h t s . . . . . Board expenses Stationary, printing, advertising, postage Incidentals, including water Total Total expenses, forward RESOURCES. $4,000 00 20,000 C > K 7,200 00 4,800 00 6,300 00 4,000 00 2r 735 00 3,000 00 600 00 1,500 00 1,200 00 $45T300 00 9.035 00 $54,335 00 54,000 00 Interest on endowment. Interest on land contracts Fees from s t u d e n t s : . . . . . Miscellaneous .'. $19,000 6,000 9,000 2,000 00 00 00 00 $36,000 00 $18,000 00 Deficit to be asked of the State Also the following items as heretofore allowed: For payment of taxes on lands in Minnesota and Nebraska, per annum For repairs and improvements For mechanical shops '". .For apparatus and chemicals.^ ... For books and publications For collections of natural history For fitting laboratory of mining engineering Total asking per annum $2,000 3,000 1,500 2,000 1,500 1,000 2,000 ——— 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 $13,000 00 $31,00000 Your committer believes that all the items enumerated above are essential to the proper life and growth of the University. The two new professorships provided for are: First—A professor of mechanical engineering, who will be imperatively demanded when the present naval officer is withdrawn at the end of the current college year; and ' Second—A professor of pedagogy, as asked by a resolution of the Illinois State Teachers' Association, at their last meeting.
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