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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS, NOV. 14, 1892.

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The college of agriculture recommends: T h a t some special effort be made to secure attendance at a one term farmers' short course, extending through the winter term at the University. That, in addition to regular lectures and class work by the professor of agriculture on soils and crops, and on animal husbandry, and those by the professor of veterinary science, there be given brief series of lectures by the professors of botany and horticulture, of chemistry, entomology, zoology, and geology, and the chemist of the Agricultural Experiment Station, or by their assistants so far as their other duties permit, and by a few representative men not connected with the University, but interested in different phases of agricultural work. T h a t students for this term be admitted without examination and without fees, with reasonable regulation as to age (18) and to attendance and work while at the University. T h a t to provide for the expenses of advertising and conducting this special course a sum not exceeding $150 be asked from t h e trustees

G. E. MORROW, Dean.

The regent presented a further request from the college of agriculture for an appropriation of $100 for the purchase of lantern slides and other apparatus. On motion of Mr. Eunk, the college of agriculture was authorized to offer the proposed short course for the next winter term, and $250 from the U. S. fund was appropriated for the uses named. Statements of the needs of the college of engineering and of the several departments of the college, were presented by the regent, but as the sums of money which would be required to meet these needs were greatly in excess of the present available resources of the University, they were referred to a committee on legislation, to be appointed. Twenty dollars was, on motion of Mr. Cobb, appropriated for use in Professor Snyder's room. Three hundred dollars was appropriated for such furnishing as is indispensable in Natural History Hall, the amounts to be expended by the business agent and the heads of departments who are to occupy the building. Upon the request of Mr. Hall, director of the gymnasium, $120 was appropriated for fitting up a room in which the women students of the University may take physical exercise. The selection of t h e place for such exercise was referred to the faculty. A petition for an elevator for the use of women, in University Hall, was laid over to t h e December meeting, together with requests by Mr. JIall for apparatus for the gymnasium, and with regard to athletic affairs. The question of what appropriations for new buildings should be asked for of the legislature was then taken up. The regent presented the following from the faculty in relation to this question: The following paper was voted by the faculty of the University of Illinois, October 31, 1892: "On February 24, 1892, the faculty of the University of Illinois voted t h a t it was desirable to ask for buildings from the next legislature, (a) engineering building, (b) library, (c) museum, the order not to imply precedence, all being considered absolutely necessary." At a meeting of the trustees held June 27th, it was voted " t h a t there be erected, as soon as practicable, a library building and a building for the college of engineering." In the report of t h e committee on buildings and grounds of the trustees, presented, September 14,_ 1892, it is said; , . • ,. •