Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 58]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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The plan involves partitioning off a narrow room an armorer's room in the center, and places to put where they can be under lock and key. But these present. The effort now should be simply to get up a substantial roof, and lay a good solid, floor. Such been able to prepare will be laid before you.

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.

along one side, with the rifles in rooms can be omitted at the walls, cover with details as we have

I desire to call attention to the needs of the school of architecture. Professor Bicker now occupies for lecture and drawing rooms two apartments on the third floor in the northeast corner of the main building. The growth of the classes has been such as to fill these rooms too full for convenience, and for best results. There is now no department in the University which so imperatively needs relief. I beg leave to present this solution of the difficulty, and ask your approval thereof: The tipper mansard of the east wing is one large room about 58 by 78 feet. I t is now used by the classes in projection drawing, but so large a room is not necessary for t h a t purpose; and if the room were filled, the class would be much too large for one teacher to instruct. I would divide the room into three; first cut off from the south end about 30 feet for the use of the projection drawing; cut off a suitable passage on the west side leading to t h a t room; then divide the remainder into two rooms which would each be about 25x52 feet in area. These rooms I would connect by large sliding doors, and give them to Professor Bicker for his classes. They would afford him nearly twice the floor space he now h a s ; would make the work in them much more controllable, and give him great and needed relief. To make the light satisfactory, it would be necessary to put in each room a sky-light. But this is no objection; the best eastern institutions have their drawing-rooms so constructed by preference. I have had the cost of this improvement carefully estimated, and find t h a t it may be completed for the sum of $430—which may be taken from the state appropriations for buildings and grounds.

T H E CHEMICAL BUILDING

Should have a thorough renovating in the interior. Nothing has been done here in the way of painting and calcimining since the house was erected in 1878. The wood-work in first and second stories, and in halls of basement and mansard, should be well painted with two coats, and t h e walls and ceilings calcimined. For this purpose I ask an appropriation from state funds, buildings and grounds, of $400.

T H E NORTH CAMPUS.

The fence about this plat of land has been a subject of much.question already. The nature of the problem has changed since the two adjacent cities have passed ordinances restricting the freedom of cattle. This tract is 1,260 feet long by 450 feet wide. I t lies across and closes three streets. If all fencing is removed it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to prevent teams and carriages from crossing it, particularly as it lies in its present position between the two cities. I wish to propose as the cheapest and best solution t h a t I can devise, other than the absolute removal of all fencing and the throwing the tract open to the public, t h a t a low fence be made, t h u s : place a single line of, say li-inch iron pipe, at 18 inches from the ground, supported by 6x6 inch oak posts, cut four feet long, and projecting out of the ground, say 20 inches. I think fhat the whole will cost, say 220 rods at $2 a rod, or $440. This fence need not surround the drill hall, and the saving will be enough to pay for taking