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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900
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1899] PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 119 CHICAGO, I I I . , June 27,1899. lo the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—According to your request I communicate herewith a copy of the report of the Dean of the College of Agriculture dated May 30, 1899, addressed to the President of the University. This copy has been handed to me today. I find, upon inquiry, that the report was handed to the President and that he made, apparently, in connection therewith, certain recommendations at your last meeting. These recommendations were towards increasing the salaries of Messrs. Holden, Blair, and Fraser, and for the appointment of a stenographer. I do not find that any other of the suggestions of the Dean were reported to your body, and I therefore suppose they did not meet his approval for the time being. I have ether reasons to suppose that some of the recommendations of the Dean would receive his endorsement when he considered the time ripe for them. I can not in the least be held, however, to speak for President Draper in these matters, and under the circumstances I should much prefer to make no recommendations concerning them; yet it seems to me action is required, and the responsibility of positive movement is upon all in whom authority exists, but great care is needed that whatever is done should be carefully done and that no undue haste should be made. Under the circumstances I recommend that positions be created as follows, as additions to those now filled in the College of Agriculture, and that the salaries agreed upon be paid from the funds devoted to the College, viz.: 1. An assistant professor of animal husbandry at a salary of $1,200 to $1,600 a year. 2. An assistant professor of soil v physics at a salary of $1,200 to $1,600 a year. 3. An instructor in horticulture, or an assistant professor, at a salary of $900 to $1,200 a year. 4. An instructor in dairying at a salary of from $600 to $1,200 a year. I further recommend that suitable provision be made towards finding the proper persons to fill these positions, but that no nominations of persons be made until after President Draper returns. I also recommend that a small room be added on the west of the house occupied by Professor Davenport, the cost of the same not to exceed $500. I recommend further that consideration of the other matters communicated by the Dean of the College of Agriculture be postponed until the September meeting. Respectfully submitted, T. J . BURRILL, Vice-President. T h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s i n t h e foregoing p a p e r were adopted, i n c l u d i n g t h e a p p r o p r i a t i o n of $500.00 for t h e p u r p o s e n a m e d , b u t with an a m e n d m e n t , offered b y M r s . Carriel, to t h e effect t h a t a n effort should b e m a d e at once to find a n d a p p o i n t t h e p r o p e r persons to fill t h e new places created. A letter was p r e s e n t e d from D r . W . E . Q u i n e w i t h d r a w i n g h i s resignation of t h e d e a n s h i p of t h e School of Medicine, a n d a s k i n g for a leave of absence from official d u t i e s for a year. Dr. Q u i n e ' s r e q u e s t was g r a n t e d . D r . Burrill p r e s e n t e d to t h e B o a r d t h e following c o m m u n i c a t i o n from P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r :
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