Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1900
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58 UNIVERSITY O F I L L I N O I S . [ M a r c h 14, 10. I recommend the appropriation of $100.00 for incidental expenses in the department of Mechanical Engineering. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY. 11. In my opinion plans for the future at the School of Medicine and the School of Pharmacy need very full and careful consideration. Our leases at both institutions terminate one and two years hence. The most thoughtful study of the whole situation must be made, and plans laid with as little delay as possible if we are to be ready to act in time and with confidence as the interests of the University may demand. In one case or the other it may become necessary to erect a new building. It is recommended that the committees of the Board upon these two institutions be directed to take the matter up at an early day, act in cooperation with each other in reaching conclusions, and, if practicable, report to the Board at its next meeting and certainly at the September meeting. 12. Consequent upon the action of the Board arrangements have been made for operating a summer term of a part of the University departments. The announcements have been prepared and are submitted for your information. 13. The oil portrait of the first President of the University, John M. Gregory, D.D., LL.D, hanging in the room of the Trustee?, should be given a "better frame and I recommend that provision be made for it. IMPROVEMENTS ON ILLINOIS FIELD. 14. I transmit with my approval an estimate and recommendation of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds for draining Illinois Field and constructing a one-third mile running track thereon, involving a cost of about one thousand dollars. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, March 14, 1899. President A. 8. Draper, DEAR SIR:—Upon request of the Athletic Board I have made an estimate of the probable cost of properly draining Illinois Field and constructing a new track for same. I find that a complete system of drainage, with sufficient catch basins to carry on0 a heavy rainfall, will cost about $300.00, and that a new track, constructed as large as our field will permit, being about one-third of a mile, if well constructed, would cost about $700.00. This latter item might be lessened somewhat by using a cheaper means of construction of track, but I would recommend spending about the above amount of money for same. , Very respectfully, N. S. SPENCER, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. THE UNIVERSITY IN THE WAR WITH S P M N . lb. It is appropriate that I should announce to the Board the names of the University students and Alumni who entered the army or navy to engage in
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