Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1894 [PAGE 86]

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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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For commencement exercises, $200 was appropriated from current funds. Mr. Bullard stated t h a t a communication had been handed to him by Mr. B. F. Harris, Jr., asking the board to grant the Urbana and Champaign Electric Street Railway Co. permissionto run through the University north farm along the line of Wright street, extended south, and t h a t Mr. Harris would be glad to have the board grant him permission to present a brief statement with regard to the matter. The board directed t h a t Mr. Harris should be heard at the evening session. The board then adjourned to meet at the Doane House, in Champaign, at 7:30 o'clock p. m.

EVENING SESSION.

Immediately after the assembling of t h e board, Mr. Harris was heard on behalf of t h e request made by the Street Railway Co. On motion of Mr. Bullard, this matter was referred to the farm committee, to be reported upon before t h e board should adjourn. The report of the Agricultural Experiment Station was then considered. The vouchers were referred to the finance committee. On motion of Mr. McLean, appropriation of station funds was made, as asked by the board of direction. Also on motion of Mr. McLean, the appointments of the members of t h e station staff and their salaries, were approved. Authority was given the board of direction to undertake t h e one new experiment. Messrs. E. E. Chester, of Champaign, R. T. Fry, of Olney, and H. B. Gurler, of DeKalb, were appointed members of t h e board of direction of t h e Experiment Station, to represent the State Board of Agriculture, the State Horticultural Society, and the State Dairymen's Association, respectively. Mr. McKay moved t h a t Mr. Gore and Mr. Raymond be appointed members of the board of direction from the trustees; but upon Mr. Gore's asking to be excused, on the ground t h a t his many duties would preclude his giving this matter t h e attention it would require, Mr. Morrison's name was substituted in place of his. Professor Morrow, Professor Burrill, Professor Forbes, and Mr. Farrington were also made members of the board of direction. On motion of Mr. McKay, Professor Morrow was made president of the board, Messrs. Chester and Raymond were appointed to constitute, with Professor Morrow, the executive committee of the board of direction. The request from the camera club for an appropriation to put in repair the photographic room in the chemical laboratory, was referred to t h e committee on buildings and grounds.