Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900 [PAGE 280]

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UNIVERSITY O F I L L I N O I S .

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of the same from the beginning of the next University year; and that this department fix the standards and havje general oversight over the lunch room authorized by the Board to be opened on the University grounds next year. 8. That in view of suggestions of Dean Davenport, and of the informal request of Dean Kinley for leave of absence next year on half pay, the Committee on Instruction be requested to take up and report upon the matter of a rule covering the conditions upon which leaves of absence of members of theFaculty for a considerable length of time will be granted, if in the judgment of the Committee any such general rule is desirable. 9. That the accompanying bill for $250.00 from Hon. John P. Wilson, for legal services as counsel for the University in the matter of the more perfect union with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, presented at this time at my request, be paid. 10. That the communication from citizens of Champaign asking that the University join in a movement to open a street on the south line of the city limits from Wright street west to Fourth street which is herewith transmitted,, be referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with directions to investigate and report. I may say that I am of the opinion that such opening would be against University interests. 11. That the financial statements of the Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, herewith transmitted, be referred to the Finance Committee for examination and report. 12. That the resolution forwarded by the University Golf Club touchiner the laying out of golf courses, which is herewith transmitted, be approved. The resoultion is as follows: Resolved, That the University Golf Club is hereby authorized to lay out and maintain a golf course upon the premises of the Uniuersity, including the campus and the Experiment Station grounds, subject, however, to the approval of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds as to the location on the campus, and to that of the Director of the Experiment Station as to the location on the Experiment Station premises. The use of the course by the members of the club is conditioned upon theestablishment and maintenance of rules approved by the President and by the Director of the Experiment Station, which rules shall include a penalty of dismissal from the club and forfeiture of all rights to the course for trespasson Experiment Station property.

A. S. DRAPER,

President, Action was t a k e n u p o n t h e i t e m s of t h e foregoing c o m m u n i c a t i o n as follows: 1. A u t h o r i t y was given for t h e i m p o r t a t i o n s for t h e c h e m i c a l l a b o r a t o r y , t h e botanical laboratory, a n d t h e A g r i c u l t u r a l E x p e r i m e n t S t a t i o n as r e c o m m e n d e d . 2. Professor N e w t o n A. W e l l s , who h a d been e m p l o y e d for half t i m e at t h e r a t e of $2,000.00 a year, was a p p o i n t e d professor of t h e h i s t o r y a n d p r a c t i c e of p a i n t i n g on full t i m e after S e p t e m b e r 1,1900, a t a salary of $2,000.00 a year. After t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t h a d b e e n m a d e t h e following s t a t e m e n t s were read to t h e B o a r d by P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r :

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STATEMENT REGARDING THE DECORATION OF THE LIBRARY.

The contract price for the decoration of the Library Building was $3,500.00. I began the work of decorating the building August 5,. 1897, and at the end of four months had completed all but the fresco-work in the rotunda. F o r