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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900
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22 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [Sept. 80, CHAMPAIGN, October 6,1898. Mr. W. L. Pillsbury, Urbana, III. DEAR S I R : Yes, by all means record me as voting for the resolution. I t does not more than express the truth. Respectfully, T H O S . J. SMITH, T h e Secretary was ordered to send a copy of t h i s p a p e r to P r e s i dent Draper. BUILDING ON STATE FAIR GROUND FOR UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SCHOOL EXHIBITS. SPRINGFIELD, I I I . , September 30,1898. lo the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on Agriculture respectfully submits the following preamble and resolution for your consideration and recommendation and moves their adoption: WHEREAS, This University is now# one of the foremost institutions of its kind in this country and is of great importance to the agriculturists and other citizens of this commonwealth, and, WHEREAS, The State of Illinois has located permanently the State Fair at Springfield, and it is but meet and proper that this institution should be fully represented at the annual exhibitions of the Illinois State Board of Agriculture, and, WHEREAS, This University is ready at all times to make large exhibits of live stock, of agricultural products, of the results of investigations in many branches of art and science, and of educational appliances and work,-which it is believed would be of great value to the people of this State, provided such exhibits could be made and properly displayed in a suitable building erected for that purpose on the State fair grounds, and, WHEREAS, The University of Illinois, being desirous of making such an exhibition, has met with strong and proper objections from private exhibitors who allege that it is not right for the University to compete for premiums with individual exhibitors in their several lines of business, and, WHEREAS, The exhibits of the public schools of the State have become of great importance to our educational interests and should be made in a suitable building, therefore, be it Besolved, That this board petitions the Illinois State Board of Agriculture for a suitable building to be erected on its grounds and occupied permanently by the public schools of the State and by the University of Illinois for the purposes above set forth. Respectfully submitted, I. S. RAYMOND, N . ' B . MORRISON, J. IRVING PEARCE, ALEX. MCLEAN, \ Committee on Agriculture. T h e b o a r d adjourned. J. H. FREEMAN, W. L. PILLSBURY, Secretary. President pro tempore.
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