Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904 [PAGE 48]

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UNIVEBSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Oct. 25,

health. I recommend that Mr. William Gordon Eraser, Instructor in the Machine Shop, be appointed Instructor in Machine Design for ten months from September 1, at $100 a month. 6. I recommend that Eobert Clayton Matthews be appointed Assistant in Genral Engineering Drawing a t $70 a month, for ten months, to commence September 1, 1902. He has been a t work from the opening of the semester. 7. I recommend that Miss Isabel Jones be appointed Assistant in the Department of Art and Design on p a r t time, at $30 a month, for ten months from October 1, 1902. 8. I recommend that Miss Edna L. Goss be appointed Eeviser in the Library and Library School at $500 from October 1st to commencement; and t h a t Frank W. Bumstead be appointed messenger in the Library at the rate of $20 a month from the time he commences work until commencement. 9. I recommend that Mr. Perry Barker be appointed Assistant on the Water Survey at $50 per month for nine months, beginning October 1, 1902. 10. I recommend t h a t Mr. Edwin Gardner Greenman be appointed Instructor in Mechanical Engineering a t $75 a month from October 20, 1902, to J u l y 1, 1903. 11. I recommend that Horticulture and Dairy Husbandry be recognized as independent departments entitled to representation in the University Senate. 12. I recommend that Professor Katharine L. Sharp be granted leave of absence till November 1st on account of ill health; and that Professor Lewis A. Ehodes be granted leave of absence until January 1, 1903, on account of the illness of his wife, upon the condition that their work be provided for without expense to the University and to the satisfaction of the President. 13. I transmit herewith certain contracts made by the officers of the College of Medicine, subject to the approval of your Board, with the Woman's Presbyterian Board of Missions of the Northwest, with the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior, and with the Northwestern Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church for establishing scholarships, four in all, and each in the sum of one thousand dollars, in the College of Medicine, for the education of medical missionaries, and I recommend that the agreements be approved. 14. Some time ago the Board requested me to procure suitable portraits of certain gentlemen heretofore connected with the University. Having made a general arrangement with Professor Newton A. Wells to do the work, I am able to present the first portrait to the Board for its acceptance at this meeting. I t is of Professor George Espy Morrow, Professor of Agriculture from 1877 to 1894. I t is a crayon portrait, as it had to be made from a photograph, and i t was not possible to execute it in oil. I t seems to me quite as satisfactory as could be expected, and if it is approved by the Board, I recommend that Professor Well's nominal charge for his work, and the cost of framing, amounting in all to $34.00, be paid. 15. For some years there has been much dissatisfaction in University circles a t the almost unlimited extent to which it is said the authorities of the city of Champaign have allowed liquor to be sold, and particularly the extent to which they have allowed the Sabbath to be desecrated in violation of law, and to the humiliation of all good citizens. That there is abundant ground for indignation is clear enough to every observer. The trouble is continuous and flagrant. I t is manifest every day, and doubly so every Sunday. An intolerable offense, perhaps more unbearable than the others, although it comes but once a year, is the license given for a band tournament each year on the Sunday which comes just a t the time students are gathering for the fall semester. On this Sunday brass bands, numbering perhaps twenty or thirty, come with miscellaneous crowds by special trains from all p a r t s of the State for a day of recreation if not of dissipation. I t is said t h a t upon the trains coming hither this year handbills were distributed announcing that the saloons would be found open through the day. The matter has recently been reported upon to the Council of Administration by its Committee on Students' Welfare. The Council feels that the committee