Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 184]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OE TRUSTEES.

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The report was approved and the appropriation asked for was made. On motion of Mr. Morgan, it was voted to subscribe for 400 copies of the Illini. This matter was p u t in charge of t h e committee on publication. Mr. Morgan, from t h e special committee appointed at t h e June meeting to consider what i t was desirable to do for t h e welfare of t h e young women of t h e University, made an informal report of progress. The committee on buildings and grounds made t h e following report:

U R B A N A, I I I . , Sept. 13, 1893.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: A S directed by t h e board, your committee on buildings and grounds had ordered t h e work of putting into proper condition closets for men to be done a t an expense of $2,500, which sum we ask you to appropriate. We have also ordered fitting up a toilet room for t h e faculty, and ask an appropriation of $350. The work of fitting up rooms in t h e preparatory school in t h e lower floor of t h e southwest wing of University Hall will cost $440, and t h e board is asked to appropriate $40 in addition to t h e $400 already appropriated therefor. The work of fitting up t h e business agent's and t h e registrar's office has been done a t an expense of $200, t h e amount which was appropriated therefor. Your committee was directed to put in dumb waiters in t h e chemicaj laboratories and to fit up a store room in t h e basement of t h e Chemical Laboratory. This work has been done, and t h e board is asked to appropriate $700 therefor. Five additional desks have been ordered for t h e chemical laboratories at a cost of $550, which sum you are asked to appropriate. The improvements ordered, to provide for additional classes in N a t u r a l History Hall, have been nearly completed, a t a cost of $190, and an appropriation of this sum is needed. The repairs on t h e ladies' toilet room Have been made a t an expense of $150; an appropriation of this amount is recommended. Some work in t h e rooms of t h e free-hand drawing classes, which has been asked for, will cost $100. We recommend an appropriation of this amount in order t h a t t h e work may be. done. We also ask for $40 to make needed improvements in t h e music room. Your committee has employed Mr. S. P. Sutton, at $125 a month, to take charge of t h e work intrusted to t h e committee, and we ask your concurrence in this action. We also employed Mr. J. M. White to take charge of t h e architectural work for t h e committee, and we recommend t h a t his bill of $185 for his services be paid. Kespectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, ) Committee on N. B. MORRISON, > Buildings KICHARD P. MORGAN, ) and Grounds.

The report of t h e committee was approved and the appropriations were made as therein asked. The committee on instruction reported recommending the appointment of Mr., Frank Smith, M.A., to be assistant in zoology, salary $1,000, for ten months. The report was approved, on motion of Mr. Morgan.