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1903.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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Therefore, I recommend that the thanks of the University be expressed to Dean Davenport for his offer and that he be advised that the Board does not think it well to act upon it.

N A M E OP THE PREPARATORY SCHOOL.

I recommend that the school maintained by the University and commonly called the Preparatory School be hereafter named and called " T h e Academy of the University of I l l i n o i s . "

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE MATTERS.

Last summer Mr. Louis Dixon Hall was appointed Instructor in Sheep Industry for five months at $125.00 a month. At the request of Dean Davenport, I recommend that he be appointed for the remaining five months of the year a t $100.00 a month. I t is recommended that the following appropriations be made for the agricultural work:

Prom teachers' and institute fund From interest on endowment

$2,000 00 5,000 00

From State funds for College.... From United States Station funds submitted,

$6.000 00 3,750 00

Respectfully

A. S. DRAPER.

All the foregoing recommendations were adopted except that relating to the School of Pharmacy, which was referred to the Committee on the School of Pharmacy for report at next regular meeting of the Board. President Hatch announced the following as members of the Standing Committee on the College of Engineering: W. B. McKinley, Chairman, S. A. Bullard and Alexander McLean.

BONDS FOR ARMS.

The following resolution was offered by Mr. McLean:

Besolved, That the University execute as principal, and deliver to the government of the United States a bond in the penal sum of $9,590.40 for additional ordnance and stores, consisting of three hundred Springfield cadet rifles and sets of equipment, to be issued to the University for the use of the military department by the Secretary of War, and that Mr. Frederic L. Hatch, President of the Board of Trustees, be and is hereby authorized to sign said bond on behalf of the University, and attach thereto the seal of the University.

The resolution was adopted. On motion of Mr. Bayliss it was voted to purchase saddles and bridles for the purpose of mounting three officers of the regiment.

SUMMER TERM.

Seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as should be needed, was appropriated to defray the expenses of the summer session of 1904. President Draper's bill, amounting to $85.95, w a s ordered paid upon recommendation of the Finance Committee.