Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 56]

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PROCEEDING O F BOARD O F T R U S T E E S .

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I would recommend t h a t one-half of the fund now in hand be used in this way. This will set free in current funds enough to pay the salaries of the new professors appointed, and about $3,500 more. The other half may properly be used in extending our equipment, providing "facilities for instruction in the subject pertaining to agriculture and the mechanic arts, the English language, and physical, natural, mathematical and economic science." I t still impresses me t h a t the thing to do with this fund is to use it; to save it is to lose it. The first item which I would advise is t h a t a sum be set aside for the immediate addition of apparatus for instruction in electrical engineering. Something has been begun in the lower room of the east wing of University Hall. One half of the remaining room on t h a t floor should be used as a place for installation of dynamos. A good gas engine should be set with sufficient piers, shafting, etc., to arrange a suitable variety of these electric generators. I ask t h a t there be set apart:

F o r further e q u i p m e n t of electric l a b o r a t o r y F o r fxtendinff t h e laboratory of t h e mechanical e n g i n e e r i n g d e p a r t m e n t F o r t h e p u r c h a s e of balances a n d o t h e r p e r m a n e n t a p p a r a t u s for t h e chemical) laboratory F o r i n s t r u m e n t s for civil e n g i n e e r i n g F o r b< 'tany a n d physiology F o r natural history collection I n all $2,5<>0 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 500 00 500 00 2,000 00 $7,500 00

I wish to suggest t h a t all moneys which may be received from the United States through the State Treasurer, pursuant to the provisions of the Morrill college aid act, be administered as a special fund, distinct from all other moneys in the University treasury; and t h a t all moneys paid out of this fund be paid pursuant to distinct appropriations therefrom, which snail so clearly specify the purposes for which the moneys are to be used, as to show that they conform strictly to the requirements of the act of congress und r which the money comes to the University. This will give a proper and safe foundation for the annual report of the disbursements of these moneys, which the President of the University is required to make to the secretaries at Washington, furnishing to them the official information upon which they may proceed to authorize the consecutive payments contemplated in the law. I present the quarterly report of the professor of agriculture, as follows:

FARM R E P O R T .

Dr. S. II. Peabody, Begent,

U R B A N A, MARCH 5, 1891.

SIR: For t h e three months ending March 1, 1891,

T h e farm r e ^ e i p ' s have b e e n . T h e e x p e n d i t u r e s have b e e n . $518 79 309 08

The weather has been unusually favorable for the live stock, which has, with few exceptions, done well. We have been caused some trouble by lack of a full supply of water at the experiment farm barn. Respectfully submitted,

G. E. MORROW.