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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900
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110 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [June 14, The recommendation as to crediting Experiment Station receipts and farm receipts and of the transfer of the dairy herd and appliances to the College of Agriculture (see page 106), was adopted. Mr. Smith moved as a substitute for the recommendation of the Committee with regard to the law as to returns from the Morrill acts that the following be adopted: Resolved, That the Board accepts the law and instructs its Business Manager to comply therewith. The motion prevailed. The proposition for the publication of a special circular was adopted. There was also a special vote of approval of part B of the report. The whole report as thus amended was then adopted. PLANS FOR AN AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. Two plans, Nos. 1 and 2, for an agricultural building submitted by t h e architect were then considered, the treatment of No. 1 being in the classic style. Mrs. Flower moved to adopt plan No. 1. Mr. Smith moved as a substitute the adoption of plan No. 2, The amendment was lost and the original motion was then adopted. SITE OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. It was voted that a site for the agricultural building should be •chosen on the east side of Burrill avenue, between the Chemical Laboratory and the Observatory, and about 800 feet south of the Laboratory, the building to front west. I t was also voted that Mr. Fulkerson, Mr. Bullard, President McLean, and Mr. Llewellyn, the architect, should be a committee to fix t h e precise location of the bailding. The Committee on Instruction made the following report with regard to the condition of affairs in the department of electrical engineering: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. URBANA, ILLINOIS, June 14, 1899. To the Board of Trustees, The Committee on Instruction to which was referred at the last Board meeting the investigation of the department of electrical engineering, desires to report that after a careful investigation it feels assured the trouble in that •department has resulted solely from the lack of a strong and efficient head to the department. Such a head having been secured in the person of Professor Aldrich, your Committee feels sure there will be no further trouble. Respectfully submitted, LUCY L. FLOWER, ALFRED BAYLISS, F. L. HATCH, MARY TURNER CARRIEL, % Committee on Instruction,
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