Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 227]

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UNIVERSAL Y OF ILLINOIS.

committee was referred those parts of the regent's report relating to t h e age for admission, the course of study of the preparatory school, the admission credits in Latin, and the admission of graduates of t h e State ^Normal Universities to the courses in pedagogics and allied subjects. On motion of Mr. Raab the faculty was authorized to announce in t h e next catalogue the courses and other requirements, for the degrees of doctor of philosophy ( P H . D . ) , and doctor of science (Sc.D.) Assistant Professor J. M. White was given leave of absence from June 7. 1894, and through the next college year. The farm report was referred to the farm committee. To the committee on instruction was referred the requests from t h e mechanical engineering department and the department of physics and electrical engineering. The communication in regard to the chemical laboratory was referred to the committee on buildings and grounds: t h a t from Professor Forbes, to the committee on instruction. The appropriations recommended by the regent, except t h a t for a certiticate for accredited schools, were made as follows: From current funds— For examination of high schools $100 00 For military supplies 22 00 For The Technograph and advertisement therein 100 00 For regent's bill for traveling expenses 43 85 For commencement expenses 200 00 For typewriter and cabinet, regent's office 120 00 Taking up the report from the Agricultural Experiment Station, t h e recommendation of the board of direction with regard to the readjustment of the salaries of those members of the station staff who are paid in part from the university funds and in part from experiment station funds, was approved, the readjustment to take effect April 1, 1894. In accordance with this action Professor Morrow will hereafter be paid $1,300 from experiment station funds, and $1,000 from university funds; W. L. Pillsbury, $800 from station funds, and $1,200 from university funds; F. D. Gardner, $1,000 from experiment station funds: Mr. Mayer, $360 from station funds, and $240 from university funds. Authority was given the board of direction to carry on the new experiments named in its report; also, should it be found advisable, to sell stock and buy dairy cows, and to make the Experiment Station a member of the National Dairy Congress. The secretary reported t h a t Mr. E. E. Chester, of Champaign; E. A. Beihl, of Alton, and H. B. Gurler, of DeKalb, stand recommended for membership in the board of direction of t h e Experiment Station by t h e Illinois State Board of Agriculture, Illinois State Horticultural Society, and the Illinois Dairymen's Association, respectively. These gentlemen were thereupon elected members of the board of direction of the Experiment Station for the year beginning April 1, 1894. Messrs. Morrison and Eaymond were elected members for the same time: also Professor Morrow, Professor Burrill, Professor Forbes, and Mr. E. H. Farrington. Professor Morrow was made president of the board of direction, and Messrs. Chester and Eaymond were designated as the two members of t h e board of direction who should, with its president, Professor Morrow, constitute its executive committee. The committee on buildings and grounds reported t h a t it was offered the Bronson strip of land, lying west of Mathews avenue, for $5,400, onethird cash, the rest in one and two years, with interest at 7 per cent., or for $5,000 cash. The board then adjourned, to meet a 8 o'clock p. m., at the Doane House, in Champaign.