Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 16]

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PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BOARD OF T R U S T E E S

OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS,

FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31,1893.

M E E T I N G O F S E P T E M B E E 13, 1892. T h e B o a r d of T r u s t e e s of t h e U n i v e r s i t y of I l l i n o i s m e t at 4:30 o'clock p. m., Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1892, in t h e U n i v e r s i t y P a r l o r , in U r b a n a . P r e s e n t , Messrs. B u l l a r d , Cobb, G r a h a m , M c L e a n , B a a b , a n d S h a w h a n ; absent, Governor Fifer, and Messrs. B r y a n t , Clemens, F u n k , M c K a y , a n d M o r g a n . T h e B e g e n t p r e s e n t e d his r e p o r t :

REGENT'S REPORT.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Since your last meeting t h e chief activities bearing upon the affairs of the University have been along the lines of perfecting the material equipment of the institution and in preparation for the work of t h e coming collegiate year. Your committee on buildings and grounds will report upon most of the work under the first of these subjects, and your committee on instruction upon t h a t of the second. University Hall has been cleaned and repaired and the heating apparatus is in order for use. Natural History Hall is still incomplete, and the arrangements for heating the Chemical Laboratory are not yet perfected. I t would have greatly added to the conveniences of instruction and to the best interests of the University, if these jobs could have been completed before this time; but it is hoped t h a t the disadvantages will be of but a few weeks' duration. I t is, however, exceedingly unfortunate t h a t the new building cannot be adequately furnished when ready for occupancy. The appropriation is, as was anticipated, altogether inade—2 U. I.