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1906]

- PKOCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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Meeting of January 30, 1906.

T h e following call for a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was issued J a n u a r y 20, 1906: Upon the call of the President, Mr. S. A. Bullard, there will be a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at 9:00 o'clock a. m. Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1906, at the University, to transact such business as the President may have to lay before the Board, and also any other business duly presented. W h e n the Board was called to order the members present were Messrs. Abbott, Bullard, Davison, Kerrick, Lehman and McLean and M r s . Alexander and M r s . E v a n s ; those absent were Governor Deneen and Messrs. Barber and Bayliss and M r s . Busey. President James was present.

M A T T E R S P R E S E N T E D BY T H E P R E S I D E N T . DONATION TO QUINE LIBRARY.

1. Dr. William E. Quine has given notice that if his offer of an endowment fund of $25,000.00 for the support of the library of the College of Medicine is not formally accepted by the Trustees of the University on or before Jan. 1, 1908, the proffer will be withdrawn and cease to be operative on that date. Voted that this matter be referred to the Committee on the School of Medicine and the President with the request that they interview D r . Quine and report as to what may be feasible or desirable in regard to this subject. ADVISORY BOARD OF THE SCHOOL OP PHARMACY. 2. The Illinois State Pharmacy Association has submitted the following list of five names from, which the Trustees are expected to appoint one member of the Advisory Committee of the School of Pharmacy, in place of Mr. Bennett of Urbana, whose time has expired: George R. Baker, Herman Fry, W. T. Adams, Albert Zimmerman, Frank Thomas. I t w a s voted that M r . F r a n k T h o m a s , of Cairo, Illinois, be appointed on the Advisory Committee on the School of Pharmacy. GRADUATE SCHOOL. 3. The Senate of the University has made a formal recommendation to the Trustees that a special faculty of the Graduate School be constituted which shall have charge of the Graduate School in the same way and to the same extent as other faculties have charge of their respective schools and colleges. Voted to approve said recommendation.