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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904
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1903.] PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. KEEPING HORSES. 335 Mr. Kerrick, at the request of the Committee on Agriculture, offered the following propositions with regard to keeping horses for University officers and instructors. 1. That stabling and care for one team, and for one or two carriages, without coachman's service, be afforded the President of the University at $17.50 a month. 2. That stabling and care for one horse, and one carriage, be afforded the Dean of the College of Agriculture at $10.00 a month. 3. That stabling and care for one horse, and one carriage, be afforded the Professor of Animal Husbandry at $10.00 a month. 4. That the University purchase a team of typical coach horses, and a suitable vehicle, for the exclusive use of the University. These propositions were referred for further consideration to the regular meeting in September. The following resolution, offered by Mr. Bullard, was adopted: Besolved, That the Committee on Students' Welfare, in conference with the Registrar, and the Deans of the University, be instructed to prepare a printed plan calculated to aid new students in their first registration, and in other matters relating to the University. THE PRESIDENCY. The Committee on the Presidency made the following report, which was received, and the Committee was discharged with the thanks of the Board: URBANA, ILLINOIS, August 23, 1904. To the Board of Trustees: Your special Committee on the Presidency desires to report that soon after its appointment it began investigations for a successor to President Draper. The Deans of the several colleges of the University were invited to meet the Committee in a conference over the situation, and a full and free expression of opinion was interchanged. A request signed by a large number of the Faculty was duly considered, and numerous letters and recommendations by citizens and newspapers of the state interested in the University and its work were received and carefully examined. The Committee was unanimous in the opinion that the Presidency should be filled by a man who had attained eminence in general educational supervision; who had already had a large experience in the operation and management of a university consisting of a number of diverse departments; who had largely grown up with and was in warm sympathy with the plan and aim of higher education by the state: who was, if possible, a native of Illinois, a t least who was for years a citizen of our state and familiar with our constitution, our laws, our free school system, the temperament, character, and resources of our people and the history, traditions, scope, and possibilities of this great University; and who was a man of good personal presence, affable, gentle, courageous, and of irreproachable character, and of strong moral influence. Your Committee takes pleasure in saying that it has secured such a man to recommend for the Presidency of the University, and presents the name of Doctor Edmund Janes James to this Board and recommends his election. FRED. L. H A T C H , A. F . NIGHTINGALE, S. A. BULLARD, Special Committee.
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