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1901]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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Mr. McLean offered the following resolution, which was adoptedr Resolved, That a committee of three members of the Board be appointed to suggest and plan for the public dedication of the Agricultural Buildings now completed and to report the same at the March meeting of the Board. I t was ordered that the President of the Board, together with two members to be appointed by him should constitute this committee, and that President Draper should be, ex officio, a member of the committee. Mr. Smith and Mrs. Carriel were appointed on the committee. Dr. King, of the College of Medicine, was heard with regard to the organization of a school of dentistry as a department of the College of Medicine. With regard to this matter the Board adopted, on motion of Mr. Smith, the following resolution: Resolved, That the Board of Trustees approves the proposition that the College of Medicine establish a department of dentistry, and hereby authorizes the authorities of said College to proceed with the steps leading thereto in conjunction with the Committee of this Board on the College of Medicine and the President of the University, it being understood, however, that nothing should be consummated until first reported and passed upon by this Board, Upon motion of Mr. Bullard an appropriation was made to meet the deficiency of $2,226.26, shown by the report of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, in the excess of liabilities incurred over appropriations for the erection of the Agricultural Buildings. President McLean called attention to the fact that the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture, Mr. Fulkerson, was no longer a member of the Board, and appointed Mr. Hatch chairman of that committee. Mrs. Abbott moved that the salary of Professor Shattuck be made $3,500.00 a year from the first of January, 1901. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas—Mrs. Abbott and Messrs. Bayliss, Nightingale, McLean and Smith; nays—Mrs. Carriel and Messrs. McKay and Hatch; absent—Governor Yates and Messrs. Bullard and Conrad and Mrs. Flower. The Board adjourned.

W. L. PILLSBURY, ALEXANDER MCLEAN,

Secretary.

President.

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