Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 10]

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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31, 1887,

M E E T I N G OF S E P T E M B E K 14, 1886. The Board met at the University parlor on Tuesday, September 14, at 3 o'clock P. M. Present—Trustees Bennett, Earle, Eisenmayer, McLean, Millard and Pearman. Absent—Governor Oglesby, Hon. John Landrigan, Trustees Cobb, Follansbee and Paden. The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. The Begent read his quarterly report, which was received for further consideration:

To the Trustees of the University of Illinois: GENTLEMEN: The indications of the months that have passed since your last meeting have all been favorable for the prosperity of the University, and point to a very decided increase in its membership. Wherever I go in the State I meet fresh evidence that the work of the University ia gaining favorable appreciation for its strength and quality, and that the only real foundation for substantial growth is being successfully laid. 1 regret to report that Miss Kittie M. Baker, who has for some years so satisfactorily taught and llustrated music in the University, has resigned her position. I have to recommend that Miss M. limball, formerly one of our students, and a pupil of Miss Baker, and for some time a student at he Boston Conservatory of Music, be appointed to the vacancy. Miss Helen M. Gregory declines the reappointment to be instructor in Frencli. I desire to nomilate for this work Mr. C. E. Eggert, B. A., a graduate of the University of Iowa. He has taught in hat institution, is strongly recommended by its president, and I think will be found a useful and lompetent teacher.