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

[May

5

T h e special c o m m i t t e e a p p o i n t e d a t t h e last m e e t i n g of t h e B o a r d t o consider P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r ' s c o m m u n i c a t i o n with regard to t h e a g r i c u l t u r a l d e p a r t m e n t of t h e U n i v e r s i t y (see pages 70, 71) r e p o r t e d as follows:

URBANA, I I I . , May 5, 1899.

To the Board of Irustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—The special committee to which was referred the propositions of President Draper concerning the use of the $150,000.00 appropriated by the legislature for an agricultural plant, begs leave to report that it disapproves of the establishment of an agricultural high school, either as a distinct department or as a substitute of the existing Preparatory School; and it further reports that it is earnestly of the conviction that the entire appropriation should be devoted to the establishment of an agricultural college that shall meet the demands of the best farming intelligence of the State and provide for the children of the agriculturists and all other classes of our citizens the broadest opportunities for the highest scientific education. The committee recommends that before the Board of Trustees decides upon the kinds and number of buildings and their equipments and upon additions to the faculty, the Committee on Agriculture, with Professors Davenport and Holden, and two others whom they may select, be empowered and directed to visit the agricultural departments of colleges of other states, study the character of their buildings and equipment, work done, and methods used, and to report to the Board of Trustees at the earliest practicable date. The committee also recommends the selection of a competent architect at once who shall be requested to counsel with this committee before the report i s presented. Respectfully submitted,

W. H. FULKERSON, F R E D L. HATCH, F . M. MCKAY. ALICE A. ABBOTT, A. S. NIGHTINGALE.

T h e report of t h e c o m m i t t e e was adopted. T h e B o a r d adjourned to meet at 2 o'clock p . m.

AFTERNOON SESSION, MAY 5, 1899.

W h e n t h e B o a r d m e t after a d j o u r n m e n t t h e same m e m b e r s were p r e s e n t as i n t h e m o r n i n g . O n motion of Mr. S m i t h , a free s c h o l a r s h i p i n t h e U n i v e r s i t y was awarded to Chester L o g a n , of E d i n b u r g . O n motion of M r . M c K a y , it was voted to a p p o i n t Mr. J . O. Llewellyn architect for t h e erection of t h e a g r i c u l t u r a l b u i l d i n g or buildings. T h e following resolutions were a d o p t e d : Resolved, That the President and Secretary be directed to draw upon the Auditor of Public Accounts such requisitions as the law requires in order that he may issue to the Treasurer of the University his warrants upon the said Treasurer for the sums of money appropriated by the legislature to the University of Illinois or to any of its departments, and to the State Laboratory of Natural History.