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UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

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4. I recommend that Professor David Kinley be appointed Dean of the graduate faculty (in place of Dean Burr ill, resigned) and Director of the courses in commerce, at a salary of $4,000.00 a year; said appointment and salary to date from Feb. 1, 1906. A motion to adopt this recommendation was postponed until the afternoon session in order that the Board might have a report as to balance available for further appropriations.

AUDITORIIUM.

Mr. Blackall, architect of the Auditorium, presented plans and a model of the proposed building, also plans for the grounds of the University. Upon motion of Mr. Abbott, the Board voted to go into committee of the whole for the consideration of these.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

The committee rose, and through its secretary, reported that it had organized by the choice of Mr. Bullard as chairman and Mr, Pillsbury as secretary; and that it made the following recommendations: 1. That an appropriation of $250.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, be made in order that the architect may get expert advice upon his plan of the grounds. 2. That bids be called for for the erection of the Auditorium, according to the plans and specifications prepared by the architect. 3. That the plans and specifications be first submitted to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for approval. Upon motion of Mr. Abbott, the report of the committee of the whole was adopted as presented. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds was authorized to advertise for bids for the construction of the Auditorium.

FIRE ALARM.

Mr. Abbott, who had been charged with the installation of a fire alarm system, reported that he had tested the efficiency of the alarm on two occasions, and that on the second occasion there had been a very prompt response on the part of the fire department of the University, as well as a considerable number of students.

ELECTRICAL EXHIBIT.

Mr. Abbott reported that at the electrical exposition held recently in the Coliseum in Chicago our electrical department and the electrical departments of several other institutions were represented, and that their exhibits attracted a great deal of attention. He said, further, that the exposition was very successful and that a similar exposition would doubtless be made hereafter annually, and that it would be a good thing for the University if we took pains to make a creditable exhibit next year. The Board took a recess to meet at 2 :oo o'clock p. m.