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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906
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1906] PEOCEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OF TRUSTEES. 353 Meeting of June 5, 1906. A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the Palmer House in Chicago, J u n e 5, 1906, upon the call of the President; the purpose of the meeting being to authorize conferring degrees upon those to be graduated from the College of Medicine on that day, and to transact such other business as might be presented. T h e members present were Messrs. Abbott, Bullard, Davison, Kerrick, McLean, and M r s . Alexander, M r s . Evans, and M r s . B u s e y ; absent, Governor Deneen and Messrs. Barber, Bayliss, and Lehman. President James and M r . H a u g a n , Treasurer, were present. MATTERS PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT. 1. Dr. Evarts B. Greene, Professor of History in the University, has received a most flattering call to the Professorship of History in one of the oldest and largest of our eastern institutions, offering him an immediate salary of $3,500 to be advanced within a comparatively short time to $4,000 with a possibility of its going higher than that in case the general average of salaries is raised. It contains also the extra inducement which a well defined and well established system of retiring allowances already adopted in that institution, provides, with the opportunity to share in the grant from the pension fund for American college professors recently established by Andrew Carnegie. This call is certainly a very just recognition of a worthy man. I think it would be a great misfortune to the University of Illinois to lose Professor Greene's services. I think the Board should improve his situation here as far as in their judgment would be feasible, considering our resources and the claims of other departments and other men. Voted: 1. T h a t Dr. Greene's salary as Professor of History and head of the Department of History be fixed at $3,000 per annum, beginning September 1, 1906. 2. T h a t he receive in addition to this for his work as dean of the College of Literature and Arts the sum of $500 a year, beginning at the same date. 3. T h a t in addition to the present force in the department of history, another professorship of history be established with a salary of not to exceed $2,500, and that the President of the University be authorized to recommend an incumbent for this position at his earliest convenience. - 2 3 U.
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