Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1896 [PAGE 98]

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P R O C E E D I N G S O F BOARD O F T R U S T E E S .

P A P E R D—ESTIMATES— Concluded.

101

F r o m farm fund— Wages Irrigation experiment. P u r c h a s e of pigs Total

$400 00 40 00 20 00 $460 00

The Board of Direction asks authority to undertake the following experiments : 1. Establishing varieties of red clover by selection. 2. Improvement of Indian corn by selection and careful breeding. 3. Companion and catch crops for Indian corn. 4. Methods of Pasteurizing cream and milk. The Board of Trustees is asked to assign funds of the Experiment Station according to estimates made in Paper D, and also to authorize the President and Secretary of the Board of Direction to expend, as the best interests of the Station may require, any unexpended balances of the United States fund. The Board of Direction will continue for the rest of the year until March 31, 1896, its present staff at salaries now paid. Respectfully submitted,

T. J. BURRILL,

President Board of Direction. I respectfully recommend that $30.00 be appropriated for the purchase of a bust of Senator Justin S. Morrill? pursuant to an arrangement which has been entered into by the different institutions deriving revenues from the Morrill acts. Respectfully submitted,

A. S. DRAPER,

President. A u t h o r i t y was given to t h e P r e s i d e n t to confer degrees as recomm e n d e d by t h e F a c u l t y . (See p a g e 87.) $2,000.00 was a p p r o p r i a t e d for t h e p u b l i c a t i o n of catalogues, circulars, a n n o u n c e m e n t s , etc. T h e q u e s t i o n of a p p r o p r i a t i n g $1,000.00 for m a i n t a i n i n g a course of lectures was referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on I n s t r u c t i o n . T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s with r e g a r d to t h e Illini a n d a Universityq u a r t e r l y were referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on P u b l i c a t i o n . T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s with r e g a r d to t h e m i l i t a r y b a n d a n d t h e s c h o l a r s h i p in music were referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on S t u d e n t s ' Welfare. T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s with r e g a r d to corps of i n s t r u c t i o n a n d t h e r e o r g a n i z a t i o n of t h e shops, so far as it concerns t h e work of i n s t r u c tion, were referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on I n s t r u c t i o n . T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s with r e g a r d to b u i l d i n g a new s h o p a n d t h e removal of m a c h i n e r y to i t ; also with r e g a r d to t h e care of b u i l d i n g s a n d g r o u n d s were referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s a n d Grounds. Mr. Morrison, from t h e F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e , p r e s e n t e d a bond s u b m i t t e d by C. W . S p a l d i n g , T r e a s u r e r , a n d moved its approval. After