Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904
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326 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS [June 7, Resolved, That the Business Manager be authorized and directed to draw a warrant upon the Treasurer of the University for an amount equal to the sums which would have been due him had his leave of absence not been freely offered to the first of July, and, further Resolved, That we follow the President to his new field of labor with the gratitude and good will and blessings of the Board of Trustees, as representing the sovereign people of the State of Illinois, to whose interests he has given the past ten years of a very earnest life. It was also voted to give to President Draper the chair which he has occupied in his office, and that the Secretary of the Board be instructed to send him the minutes of all the meetings of the Board. APPROPRIATIONS FOR ATHLETIC GROUNDS. Upon the request of Mr. Huff, Director of Physical Training, $230 was appropriated for tiling, and $300 for grading the south half of Illinois Field. In this connection it was stated by Vice President Burrill that about $150 would be needed for the summer's work on the athletic grounds on the south farm, and it was left that this amount should be paid from the appropriation for buildings and grounds. DEAN OF UNDERGRADUATES. On motion of Mr. McKinley, the vote by which the Dean of Underg r a d e tes' salary was left at $2,750, was reconsidered. The recommendation that he be reappointed at a salary of $3,000 was then amended to read that Thomas Arkle Clark be appointed Professor of Rhetoric and Dean of Undergraduates at a salary of $3,000 a year, the amendment was adopted, and the recommendation was adopted as amended. HISTORY OF THE PAST T E N YEARS. The following resolution was adopted: 'Resolved, That, in view of the desirability of securing a correct history of the last decade in the development of the University, President Draper be requested to prepare such a record and publish the same at the cost of the University. FOUNDRY. On the recommendation of the Chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, Mr. Bullard, it was voted that the bid of English Brothers, of Champaign, $10,770 in amount, be accepted for the construction of the Foundry. ATTORNEY'S FEES. The bill of John S. Brown for services as attorney in the matter of the School of Pharmacy and transactions connected therein was referred to the Business Manager and Mr. Kerrick with power to act. ACTING PRESIDENT. It was voted that after President Draper had retired, Doctor T. J. Burrill should be Acting President of the University. Adjourned. W. L. PILLSBURY, F. L. HATCH, Secretary. President,
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