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UNIVERSITY O F I L L I N O I S . M A T T E R S P R E S E N T E D BY P R E S I D E N T J A M E S .

[Sept.

12

T h e President submitted the following matters for the consideration of the B o a r d :

AUDITORIUM.

1. The first matter is the further consideration of the report of the Commission appointed by the Board on the subject of an auditorium. The Board requested Architect Clarence H. Blackall to prepare preliminary plans for two possible sites. Mr. Blackall has done so and is present to submit- the plans in person. M r . Blackall presented sketches for the south site, also for a building upon the site south of the Library. After a full explanation of these and a discussion of their merits and of the advantages and disadvantages of .the two sites, Dr. Davison moved the conditional selection of the south site recommended by Mr. Blackall, the condition being that there be presented by him satisfactory plans, with estimates of cost, for a building to be erected thereon, and the motion prevailed. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR FILIPINO STUDENTS. 2. I have a letter from William Alexander Sutherland, Superintendent of Filipino students, War Department, Bureau of Insular Affairs, Washington, D. C. He desires to know whether it would be possible to receive from four to six Filipino students in the College of Agriculture and an equal number in the other departments of the University for the present year, without charge for tuition. He calls attention to the fact that in a letter dated May 25, 1903, Dr. Andrew S. Draper, then President of the University of Illinois, wrote as follows: "We would be willing to receive the students from the Philippine Islands to a small number, say five or six, who are prepared for our work, without any charge for tuition/' O n motion of Mr. Bayliss it was voted that the President of the University be authorized to receive, at the request of the United States Government, without payment of tuition, certain Filipino students not exceeding twelve in number.

HOME TELEPHONE COMPANY.

3. The Trustees voted on January 17, 1905, (see minutes for current year, page 40,) to pay the Home Telephone Company of Champaign County, the sum of seventy-five dollars a year for certain services connected with the automatic system now in use at the University. This was done on condition that the company should install three metallic circuits to Champaign and one to Urbana, and further lines if they were necessary. The service rendered by this company is extremely unsatisfactory from every point of view. It does not appear that it has carried out its agreement in regard to extra lines, and certainly, if general complaint is any indication of the facts of the case, the service is extremely unsatisfactory. Voted on motion of M r s . Busey, that the Business M a n a g e r may lefuse to p a y the next installment of money to the H o m e Telephone Company until the company has complied with the agreement with the University in every respect.