Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906 [PAGE 380]

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UNIVEKSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[June 5

4. T h a t the sum of $1,000 be appropriated from the general funds to be placed at Professor Greene's disposal for the purchase of additional books in the department of history for the University Library. 2. The Faculty of the Engineering College have made a recommendation approved by the Dean of the College that Edward C. Schmidt be appointed Associate Professor of Railway Engineering at a salary of $2,500, to date from July 1, 1906. Professor Schmidt is a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology, 1895, in the course of Mechanical Engineering. After three years of practice work, he served for five years as instructor and assistant professor in the College of Engineering in this University. Since 1903 he has been engaged in practical work. His work done at the University of Illinois seems to have been of an unusually high character, according to the testimony of those who stood nearest to him. He seems to be a man of good training, initiative, enterprise, and professional ambition, in every way competent as a member of the staff in the new department of Railway Engineering and Administration. It seems to be desirable for him to begin his work on the first of July, since it will be necessary for him to do considerable work in organizing the department and adjusting the equipment for the most efficient work during the coming year. I recommend that this appointment be made. Voted that the recommendation be approved. 3. Professor Grindley has informed me that the cold storage interests of Chicago have offered to the University the sum of $500 to be expended in scientific investigation of the effect of refrigeration on meats and other food supplies. He requests permission to accept this money and recommends that a research fellowship be created with a salary of $300 for the coming year, and that $200 of the same be utilized in the necessary expenditure for materials, etc., connected with this investigation. Voted that the University accept the money to be expended under the direction of Professor Grindley, and that said research fellowship be created and the President of the University be authorized to appoint the incumbent. 4 The head of the Military Department requests that Mr Frederick Post be appointed Armorer and Administrative Assistant in the Military Department for thirteen months, beginning June 1, 1906, at a salary of $45 a month. Voted that such appointment be made. 5. The Secretary of the Medical College of the University has submitted the list of candidates for the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the approaching commencement. Voted that the President of the University be authorized to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine upon the following named persons who have, according to the certificate of the Secretary of the Medical Faculty, completed the work of the Medical course. GRADUATES OP THE COLLEGE OP MEDICINE. Abbott, Effie Louise Anderson, Alma Saraphia Andrews, Howard Ballance, Charles, Jr. Barrett, Fred Thornton Bauer, Frederick Beeson, Benjamin Barker Benson, Iver Simeon Benson, Lester Jarvis Bent, Frank Homer Berglund, Simon, A. B. Boal, David Bock, John Jay Bogardus, Fred Brown, M. D. Bowen, Jesse Clark Bowles, Loetta Beamer Bowman, William Townzen, Ph.G. Bowsher, Frank Llewellyn Brewer, Ernest Franklin Brosseau, Jesse Edward, Ph.G., B.S. Brown, Harry Stafford Brucker, Matthew William