Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904 [PAGE 264]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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must be kept together and in close proximity to the Heating Station. There are four lots in the rear of the Heating Station, lying next to the old right of way, running from our east line through to Mathews avenue, having an aggregate width of about 270 feetand a depth of 198 feet, held by three different owners, from whom I have an offer of sale. There are two houses upon these lots. The owner would stipulate the right to remove one of these and i t would be as well; the other would go with the property. The price asked for the four lots is $13,000. I t is large, but I am satisfied we shall never be able to buy it much if any cheaper. The form of the appropriation would clearly imply the propriety of using a p a r t of the money for the purchase of land for the purpose of extending the engineering equipment. This purchase would go a long way towards settling the ultimate ownership of the entire block, for but two parcels would remain, one of them being at the northeast corner, upon which there is a residence, which is hardly likely to change circumstances and for which we can wait almost indefinitely if need be, and the other being the Christian Association lot at the southeast corner. The Christian Associations have practically decided that they will not build upon this lot as at first intended, and there is no danger of its going into adverse hands. I n view of all circumstances, I am in favor of the purchase of the four lots described. Therefore my recommendations for the action of the Board are as follows: 1. That the sum of $30,000 be allotted for the reinforcement of department equipments for undergraduate instruction and divided as follows:

College at large Civil E n g i n e e r i n g . ~-*. Electrical Engineering? . . . . . . . . . . Mechatdcal E n g i n e e r i n g and Rail-

$ 750 00 3,000 C O 4,500 00 5, L'50 00 9,000 00

Applied Mechanics, and Municipal and Sanitary E n g i n e e r i n g Physics

$3,750 00 3,750 00 $30,000 00

2. That $13,000 or so much as may be necessary be appropriated for the purchase of land hereinbefore described and that the Business Manager be authorized and directed to make such purchase. 3. That $10,000 be appropriated to enlarge the Metal Shops or erect a separate building to provide for the foundry. 4. That $20,000 be appropriated to erect a new building for the Steam Engineering Laboratory. 5. That a State Engineering Experiment Station be established; and the remainder of the appropriation ($77,000) be used for the purchase of apparatus having reference to advanced work in engineering research and to experimentation in engineering problems; that this apparatus be installed in the departments to which it relates; that a board consisting of the Dean and the full professors of the College be created to consider and report from time to time upon the lines of work which shall be undertaken, to approve results and supervise publications, and in general to assume joint responsibility concerning the interests, the purchases and proceedings of the Station. 6. That the balance of the appropriation be allotted as follows:

Engineering Experimental Station at large $ 1,000 00 Architecture 4,600 00 Civil Engineering 6,000 00 Electrical Engineering 10,000 00 Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Municipal and Sanitary Engineering 18,000 00

Mechanical Engineering and Railway Engineering $30,000 00 Physics 6,000 00 General Engineering Drawing... 1 500 00 $77,000 00