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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900
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1898] PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 9 The recommendation of the committee was adopted. The Committee on Instruction returned the list of appointments for the School of Medicine with the recommendation that appointments be made for the ensuing year at the salaries named and that authority be given to appoint a limited number of assistants, as might be found necessary. The report of the Committee was adopted. . COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTTRE. URBANA, September 20, 1898. To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, GENTLEMEN:—Your Committee on Agriculture recommends that $144.00 be appropriated and paid to Mr. Sullivan when he shall have furnished a teninch tile drain as an outlet for drains on the south farm and made connections with them. Also an appropriation of $60.00 for repairs on house, barn, and feed lot fences on the south farm. Respectfully submitted, Chairman Finance Committee. The recommendations of the Committee were adopted. COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. I. S. RAYMOND, URBANA, September 20, 1898. To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—YourLCommittee on Buildings and Grounds begs leave to report that it has taken into consideration the purchase of a system of clocks for the University and recommends the purchase of a synchronizing clock to be placed in the Astronomical Observatory, and of three smaller clocks, one to be placed in Library Hall, one in Electrical Laboratory, and one in University Hall, and that the system of bell alarms in the University be connected with the clock in Electrical Laboratory. S. A. BULLARD, Committee on Buildings and Grounds. An appropriation of $125.00 was made to carry out the recommendation of the Committee. An appropriation of $15 was made to pay P . S. Robinson for services in the fall and winter terms of last year in the military band. A communication from Joseph Kuhn & Son, of Champaign, in relation to uniforms for the battalion, was referred to the Committee on Students' Welfare. An elaborate report of tests made on Illinois coals by Professor Breckenridge and Professor Parr was received and referred to Mr. Morrison for examination and report. Mrs. Carriel moved that the use of Military Hall be granted for a charity ball, the proceeds to be given to the Julia F. Burnham Hospital. The motion failed upon the following vote: Yeas, Messrs. Bullard, and Smith and Mrs. Carriel; nays, Messrs. Freeman, Armstrong and McKay and Mrs. Flower. Mrs Oarriel urged the giving instruction in the University in vocal sight reading of music. On the motion of Mr. McLean this s u b • T. J. SMITH, J. E. ARMSTRONG, MRS. LUCY L. FLOWER,
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