Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904 [PAGE 115]

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1903,]

PKOOEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

COLLEGE OP MEDICINE.

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I transmit the estimates of the College of Medicine, and recommend their approval.

These recommendations were referred to the Committee on College of Medicine.

THE WOMAN'S BUILDING.

The legislative appropriation of $80,000 will be immediately available for the construction of a Woman's Building, and I recommend that the Committee on Buildings and Grounds be authorized to employ an architect and proceed with the work, submitting the plans, specifications, and contracts to the Board for approval. As the committee and the architect will want to have the location of the building settled before commencing plans, I recommend that, speaking generally, it be fixed on the south campus, close to Wright street, and nearly opposite the Agricultural Buildings, but that the Committee on Buildings and Grounds fix the precise site or report it to the Board.

It was so ordered and it was voted that Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Evans be members of the Committee where matters' relating to this building are under consideration.

AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES.

I transmit herewith the several recommendations of the different committees provided for in the Statute making appropriations for agricultural instruction and investigation, and except as to the suggestions touching the location of structures, which can be nothing more than a voluntary suggestion, I recommend that they be approved. J

These recommendations were referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.

I transmit two communications from Professor Morgan Brooks touching electrical equipment and recommend the appropriation of $925 to carry out his recommendations.

It was so ordered.

URBANA, ILLINOIS, June 3, 1903.

President A. S. Draper: DEAR S I R : The lighting of Engineering Hall has never been completed. The building is wired, but fixtures and lamps are in place in rather less than half the openings. There has been a demand this past year for additional lights, as in the drafting room on the upper floor, and wrhile some lights have been installed, I have been somewhat afraid that the transformers installed would not carry satisfactorily the additional load, as they are not adapted to the entire building. I believe that it would be cheaper in the end to complete the lighting arrangements for this building at one time, and suggest the present. I f this building be changed from 110-volts to 220-volts, new transformers for the entire building would cost but $60, whereas if the 110-volt system be retained an additional cost for transformers would be required of about $200. Not only would the first cost of transformers be reduced by about $140 but the running expense would be reduced, and under the new arrangement even an overload of lamps could be safely carried, if necessary.