Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906 [PAGE 416]

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UNIVERSITY O F I L L I N O I S .

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"We would expect to put in a meter and pay for every gallon used." "The Mt. Hope Cemetery Association desires to tile the burying grounds. "We find that about eight acres drain north and about three across south through your grounds. If you could grant us the privilege we would like to know the distance from each road to the tile, also the size of tile we would connect with. "We would call your attention to the lay of the surface of the ground which shows a fall of over ten feet in 400 yards. This water passes over your ground and we think it preferable to have it pass under, through tile." T h e first of these communications was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for investigation and report. The second was referred to the A g r o n o m y Department of the College of Agriculture for investigation and report. 29. That the President of the University be authorized to reappoint clerks and stenographers for the coming year at the present salaries, reserving until the autumn any propositions for increases in salary or promotions in rank. Approved.

PURCHASING AGENT AND PURCHASES.

30. The Purchasing Agent states that he is now ready to handle in his office the entire purchasing business of the University. Voted that all purchases for the University by any officer or employe thereof be made hereafter t h r o u g h the Purchasing Agent. ENGINEERING COLLEGE AND EXPERIMENT STATION. 31. There seems to be some difference of opinion as to the proper relations of the Engineering College and the Engineering Experiment Station. From consideration of convenience the Deanship of the College and the Directorship of the Station have been vested in different persons. This may easily lead to a separation of interests and functions unless carefully watched. Voted that the Engineering College and the Engineering E x p e r i ment Station be administered in the closest possible harmony and as nearly as may be as if they were one department; to this end the personnel of the Engineering Faculty and the Engineering Experiment Station staff shall be as far as possible the s a m e ; each member of the Engineering Faculty being a member of the Station staff and vice versa; looking to a time when all members of the instructing staff shall be engaged in work in the Engineering Experiment Station and all the members of the Station staff be engaged in instruction.

APPOINTMENTS.

T h e Secretary reported that since the March meeting of the Board, he had, by direction of President James, sent notices of appointments to persons not named above, as follows: 1. Dr. G. A. Miller, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, at a salary of $2,000 a year, from September 1, 1906. 2. John Pascal Brooks, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, at a salary of $2,250 a year, beginning September 1, 1906. 3. Charles "Wilson Haskins, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, at a salary of $1,500 a year, beginning September 1, 1906.