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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1902
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1901] PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 33 This action ean only be accomplished through legislation, and we recommend that if these suggestions be approved by you, the, committee be continued with power to prepare a bill, and take such action as shall seem most likely to secure its passage. Respectfully submitted, T. j ; BURRILL, C. W. ROLFE, A. S. DRAPER, The Board then took a recess until 4:00 o'clock p . m. AFTERNOON SESSION, DEO. Committee. 11,1900. "When the Board met after the recess the same members were present as in the forenoon, except Messrs. Bayliss and McKay. The importation of supplies for the chemical laboratory to the amount of $2,000.00 was authorized. A petition was received from the young women of the University asking that there be included in the legislative appropriations a request for an amount sufficient to build and equip a woman's hall and a woman's gymnasium. MEMORIAL TO PROFESSOR MORROW. Mr. Smith presented the following preamble and resolutions: SPRINGFIELD, I I I . , NOV. 14, 1900. The Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association is perpetually mindful of the long and efficient service rendered Illinois agriculture by the late Professor George E. Morrow; and, WHEREAS, It is desirous that some fitting and permanent memorial be placed to his name; therefore, be it Besolved, That it be requested of the Trustees of the University of Illinois, that the Assembly Boom of the Agricultural Building be known as Morrow Hall, and that a suitable tablet be erected to his memory at the entrance of said room. The following resolution was then offered by Mr. Smith: Besolved, That in memory and in honor of the long and faithful services of George Espy Morrow, as Professor of Agriculture in the University, the assembly hall in the new Agricultural Building be hereafter known and called Morrow Hall, and that a suitable tablet be placed in said hall with the name of Professor Morrow and with appropriate representations of the facts concerning him. This matter was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, to report at the next meeting of the Board. On motion of Mr. McLean, Miss Ethel A. Hampton was granted a scholarship in the University. Mr. E. E. Chester and Dean Davenport were then heard with regard to a memorial for Professor Morrow, and after the hearing and remarks by President Draper in support of the same, the motion to sefer Mr. Smith's resolution was reconsidered and the resolution was adopted. -3 U WHEREAS,
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