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1899]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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With regard to scholarships for students entering the Agricultural College (see page — : ) , the committe to which the subject was referred reported as follows:

SCHOLARSHIPS IN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

URBANA, ILLINOIS, June 14,1899. To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—Your special committee reports as follows with regard to scholarships for the Agricultural College: Besolved, That the University receive into the College of Agriculture for the period of two years each one student from each county outside of Cook county and one from each of the first seven congressional districts of the State, upon the recommendation of the executive committee of the Illinois Farmers' Institute, and that all term fees of such students be remitted, provided the students so recommended shall not have previously been in the University and shall comply with all conditions of admission to the College of Agriculture. Respectfully submitted, ALICE ASBURY ABBOTT, FRED L. HATCH.

Messrs. G. A. Willmarth, President of the Illinois Farmers' Institute, and A. B. Hostetter,, Secretary, who were present, stated their views with regard to these scholarships, and approved the resolution presented by the committee. The report of the committee was adopted. Mrs. Carriel, on behalf of the Committee on Students' Welfare,, offered the following, which was adopted, and appropriations were made as therein requested:

LUNCH ROOM AND SUPERINTENDENT.

WHEREAS, For the convenience of students a lunch room is desirable,, therefore, be it Besolved, That the Committee on Students7 Welfare be authorized to have the rooms under the University chapel repaired and fitted up for a lunch room, and that for this purpose $2,500, or so much thereof as may be neededt, be hereby appropriated. Also Besolved, That some one to take charge of this lunch room be employed at a salary not to exceed $1,000 a year. REPORT OF AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS.

The discussion of the report with regard to agricultural matters was then continued. A vote was taken upon the recommendation for an increase, as soon as expedient, of the faculty and instruction force of the College of Agriculture (see page 106), and the recommendation was adopted. The recommendation with regard to the careful separation of Experiment Station funds from other University funds (see page 106), was adopted after a statement had been made by the Business Manager, Professor Shattuck, that this had been, from the establishment of the Station, the policy of the University.