Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900 [PAGE 326]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[ Juns 12,

(a) That such leave be granted Dean David Kinley, of the College of Literature and Arts, for the next University year; (b) that Professor Thomas Arkle Clark be appointed as acting dean of the college for next year, at a salary of two thousand ($2,000.00) dollars a year; (c) that Matthew Brown Hammond, instructor in the department of economics, be made assistant professor, and placed in charge of the department for the year, at a salary of eleven hundred ($1,100.00) dollars a year; and (d) that the President be authorized to engage an assistant for the department. I also recommend that Professor Samuel Wilson Parr, of the department of applied chemistry, be granted leave of absence during the next University year, on half pay, for the purpose of foreign study, and that I be authorized to fill his place as best I can with the half of his salary remaining.

j A. S. DRAPER,

President. Leave of absence was granted Professors Parr and Kinley as recommended, Professor Clark was made acting dean of the College of Literature and Arts at the salary of $2000.00 a year, and President Draper's other recommendations were approved. On motion of Mrs. Abbott it was voted to strike out at the beginning of paragraph 13, on page 5 of the Statutes of the University of Illinois, the words, "A professor shall be the head of the department," and to insert in lieu thereof, "The ranking professor of the department shall be the head thereof." It was voted to pay the coal bill of the Odin Coal Co. at $1.00 a ton.' The Committee on Buildings and Grounds was directed to advertise for bids for coal, and was instructed that a bond would be required of the successful bidder, conditioned upon the faithful performance of any contract that might be entered into with him. Three hundred dollars was appropriated for a steam pipe to the agricultural plant, the same to be tapped to furnish steam for the dining room. The special order for 4 o'clock was then taken up. Mr. Bayliss moved that President Draper's recommendation that the Deans' of the several colleges and departments be reappointed be adopted, Mr. McKay moved to amend to the effect that Dr. Scott be asked for his resignation. After discussion on this question the roll was called with the following result: Yeas—Mr. McKay. Nays—Messrs. Bayliss, Bullard, Hatch, McLean and Smith, and Mrs. Flower and Mrs. Abbott. Absent—Governor Tanner and Messrs. Fulkerson and Nightingale, and Mrs. Carriel. The original motion was then passed.