Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 89]

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UNIVERSITY O F

ILLINOIS.

Among the younger men who have been doing excellent work, and who y I think, deserve at your hands substantial recognition of this fact, I beg^ to name Professor Frederick, Assistant Professors Stratton and Myers, and Assistant G-rindley. Mr. Parker, foreman and teacher in the woodshop, asks a moderate increase of salary, which should be allowed* I f the University is to go forward with building operations, Mr. Parker's services cannot well be spared. I present the following communication from Professor Kicker: To the Begent and Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: I beg leave to present the following recommendations and statements for your consideration. A. For the College of Engineering. 1. T h a t a second Thatcher's computing scale be purchased for the useof the College during the next University year. I t will be much needed, is the best computing instrument of moderate cost now in use, and costs $30 and express charges. 2. T h a t a Webb's adder be likewise purchased for the use of the College, costing $7 and express charges. B. For the department of architecture. 1. That $40 be appropriated for an additional case for the collection of plates in the architectural room, to be placed next east of the two cases now in use, which are filled, leaving about 1,500 additional plates for which there is no place. 2. T h a t $30 be appropriated for a case for catalogues and price lists of building materials and appliances to be placed between the proposed case just mentioned and the steam radiator. 3. T h a t $75 be appropriated for a good photographic camera of t h e latest pattern and outfit, to be used for taking views of buildings, of structural and ornamental details, etc., as opportunity offers. The lens belonging to the department was stolen from the blue print room several years since and has never been traced. 4. The last appropriation of $100 for purchase of materials for the architectural collection nas been exhausted. A bout one-half the appropriations for this purpose are necessarily expanded for the purchase of portfolios, mounting boards, etc., leaving a comparatively small amount for the purchase of photographs, engravings, etc. 5. T h a t two respectable instructor's desks be purchased for the use of the professor and assistant in architecture. 6. T h a t Mr. James M. White be retained for the next year if possible. He is a first-class man, one of the best and most promising graduates of the University, and has done excellent work as an instructor during the year just ending, being a very competent and popular teacher, and enthusiastic in his chosen profession. I t would certainly be very unfortunate for the University to lose the services of so good a man, merely because the profession offers him more attractive and promising inducements to leave. C. For the architectural shops. 1. T h a t $800 be appropriated for the erection of an isolated wooden store-house for lumber, with proper racks and a roof of corrugated iron. The present sheds were built for temporary use over twenty years since, and have practically rotted down. 2. T h a t $200 be appropriated for a new dry kiln. I t is proposed to build this of brick, with arched brick roof, tinned outside, and with tinned wooded doors at each end. Dimensions 18x7x6 feet inside, with flat steam coil beneath the whole, and a ventilating flue. The old dry kiln has decayed, and is also somewhat dangerous to the main building. A dry kiln of some kind is an absolute necessity, since the kiln-dried lumber purchased in Chicago will absorb sufficient water while stored or