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PROCEEDINGS O F BOARD O F TRUSTEES.

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his report a t t h a t meeting, touching t h e conferring of Bachelors' and Masters' degrees on students who graduated with certificates. Your committee has considered the subject and respectfully reports t h e following resolution, with t h e recommendation t h a t it be adopted by t h e Board of Trustees: Besolved, T h a t in t h e annual recommendations for Bachelors' and Masters' degrees to be conferred at commencement, t h e Faculty be, and hereby are, authorized to include in a special list, not to exceed in number in any year, t h e names of such certificated alumni, of not less than ten years' standing, as shall be found to have distinguished themselves in their several pursuits and professions in life. Bespectfnlly submitted,

S. H. PEABODY, )

O. A. H A E K E E , UKBANA, March 10, 1891.

GROUNDS FOR THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

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CHARLES B E N N E T T , )

The Eegent presented t h e following r e p o r t from t h e committee t o which was referred a t t h e December meeting t h e petition of t h e Athletic Association, asking t h a t it be g r a n t e d a portion of t h e n o r t h campus b y t h e Trustees:

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your committee to which was referred the petition of the Athletic Association for leave to use a portion of t h e north campus for an enclosure, for practice and exhibition of athletic games, respectfully reports: The committee examined the grounds referred to, and other grounds on the University farm, and decided to permit the use of the north half of the north campus, as at first asked by the Association. A formal permission to occupy t h e grounds guarded with such restrictions and penalties as seemed needful to t h e committee was drawn up, as is herewith reported. The association has not yet accepted the permission herein granted nor has it fulfilled the requirements thereof, and the permission still remains in the hands of t h e committee. Respectfully submitted,

S. A . BULLARD,

O. A. H A K K E R , G. E. SHAWHAN, S. H. PEABODY,

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A L E X A N D E R M C L E A N , !• Committee.

URBANA, March 10, 1891.

PERMISSION TO U S E P A R T OF NORTH CAMPUS FOR ATHLETIC PURPOSES.

WHEREAS, The Athletic Association of the University of Illinois has petitioned t h e Trustees of t h e University of Illinois for leave to enclose and occupy for t h e purpose of conducting athletic exercises and games, a portion of the grounds belonging to the said University and under t h e control of said Trustees; A N D WHEREAS, The Trustees aforesaid at a meeting held in Champaign, on the ninth day of December, 1890, did refer t h e petition of said Athletic Association to a committee consisting of its standing Committee on Buildings and Grounds, S. A. Bullard, G. E. Shawhan, and O. A.