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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1902
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1901.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 99 M E E T I N G O P J U L Y 6, 1901. The following call for a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was issued July 1, 1901: "Upon the call of the President, Mr. T. J. Smith, there will be a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at 8 o'clock a. m., Saturday, July 6, 1901, in the Trustees' Room, Library Building Urbana, Illinois, to consider the report of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with reference to the new chemical laboratory and any other business which may be duly presented." When the Board met pursuant to the foregoing call there were present Messrs, Bullard, Hatch, McKay, McLean, Nightingale, and Smith and Mrs. Carriei, Mrs. Abbott, and Mrs. Alexander; absent, Governor Yates and Messrs. Bayliss and Conrad. President Draper was present. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds was authorized to advertise for bids for furnishing the University with coal and for hauling the same during the year beginning Sept. 1, 1901, and to contract for the coal and for the hauling upon satisfactory bids. Mr. McLean offered the following resolution which was adopted: Besolved, That all resolutions which shall be presented to the Board shall be reduced to writing when offered for consideration. CHEMICAL LABORATORY. The plans prepared by Mr. Spencer for the new Chemical Laboratory, were then considered, and, on motion of Mrs. Carriei, were adopted. I t was voted that the Committee on Buildings and Grounds should select the location for the building. Mr. Bullard and Mr. Spencer were requested to go to Lawrence, Kansas, and investigate the plan of ventilation used in the chemical laboratory of the University of Kansas.
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