Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1890 [PAGE 91]

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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS.

Rufus Anderson, Instructor in Iron Work and Foreman, $1,600 per annum. S. R. Winchell, Professor of Latin, $2,000 per annum. Howard S. Brode, Assistant in Zoology, $100 per month. H. S. Grindley, Second Assistant in Chemistry, $60 per month. J. Y. E. Schaeffer, Assistant in Machine Shop, $80 per month. Cleaves Bennett, Assistant in Library, $40 per month. Mr. Anderson graduated from the mechanical department of Cornell University. He has served several years as foreman in private mechanical shops, and for five years as foreman in the Sibley College of Engineering, of Cornell University. From his long and special experience, and the evidences of his practical skill as workman and teacher, I am led to put great confidence in his ability to do the work desired here. Mr. Winchell is a graduate of the University of Michigan, has served successfully as principal of the high schools at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is well known as an educational author and publisher. He will be an important accession to the force in our college of literature and science. Mr. Brode comes with excellent recommendations for his work in connection with Professor Forbes. The other appointees are well known graduates of our own schools. Learning t h a t Professor Arthur W. Palmer had finished the year's work which he had undertaken in Germany, and was about to return to this State, I offered him the nomination to t h e vacancy made by the transfer of Prof. Manns from the Experiment Station. But Mr. Manns declines the appointment to the University work, preferring to remain in t h a t of the Experiment Station. I have no question but t h a t he would do t h e University excellent service. Some conference with him has given an understanding as to his ulterior purposes in life which shows t h a t this declination is creditable alike to his good sense and to his kindly disposition to the University, and I think his wishes should be acceded to. I therefore, with leave of the Board, nominate Arthur W. Palmer, Sc. D., to the position of Assistant Professor of Chemistry, at a salary of $1,600 per annum, and recommend t h a t he be placed in charge of t h e department of chemistry. Prof. Palmer will be remembered as a graduate of this University, having received his Doctor's degree at Harvard University. He has had long experience as a teacher, both at Harvard and at home; he is thoroughly a chemist, familiar with our courses and methods, and has fairly earned this appointment. Mr. Bedros Tatarian has declined the appointment as First Assistant in the Chemical Laboratory, and Miss Essie Dana declines to be Assistant in Drawing. These places are to be supplied. Wednesday last an alarm of fire was made, proceeding from the north barn, caused, probably, by the machinery connected with the large windmill. The barn was filled with hay and burned rapidly. All the animals and most of the machinery and tools were saved. The barn with about sixty tons of hay, the dairy house, the corn-crib, with about 600 bushels of grain, and the silo were lost. Prof. Morrow's house, although at one time in imminent danger, was not injured. The loss of this barn makes a serious interruption in the work of the farm, and especially of the Experiment Station. I hope t h a t the Board will see the need of its immediate reconstruction, and I believe t h a t the means for so doing will be found to be within your control. The total loss may be roughly estimated at about five thousand dollars. Professor Morrow has returned from his European trip. During his absence the farm work has been cared for by Mr. F . D. Gardner, in a very satisfactory manner. The farm report is presented herewith: