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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890
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26 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. MEETING OF DECEMBER 1 1 , 1888. The B o a r d of Trustees of t h e University of Illinois met in t h e University parlor, in Urbana, a t 3 o'clock p. m., December 1 1 , 1 8 8 8 : Present, Messrs. Bennett, Cobb, Eisenmayer, McLean, Millard, Pnllen, and S h a w h a n ; absent, Governor Oglesby, a n d Messrs. Clemens, Edwards, Dysart, a n d McKay. The minutes of t h e last meeting were approved. The s t a n d i n g committees were then called and they h a d no reports t o make. The Regent was then invited t o read his report. REGENT'S REPORT. To the Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN : The present year opens favorably, the number of students enrolled is 387. There has been a steady increase in attendance during the last three years, and the present enrollment is larger than at any one time in the history of the University. There is little doubt but that the year's enrollment will be larger than in any previous year. What, however, is deemed of more vital consequence, is the marked improvement in the character and scholarship of those who have been admitted this fall. Both of these items indicate a healthy condition of the University and are guarantees of still greater progress. While this advance is due partially to the general prosperity of the country which sends many students to institutions of higher education, it is also very largely the consequence of the work done throughout the State by the professors and the Regent of the University in attending gatherings of teachers and farmers, visiting schools, giving lectures, etc., etc. The service is laborious, but the good results are apparent. THE E X P E R I M E N T STATION has taken much time and attention. It is now fully organized, and the preliminary work is completed. The warehouse, in the midst of the experimental grounds, is finished and occupied. It is a plain, convenient wooden structure, over a brick cellar, plastered in the cellar and the first story. It has cost $2,260.02, against an estimate of $3,000.00. A small
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