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PEOGEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OF TRUSTEES.

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Adjourned Session, January 17, 1 9 0 5 . W h e n the Board met pursuant to adjournment the members present were Messrs. Bayliss, Hatch, Kerrick, McKinley, McLean, and Nightingale and M r s . Alexander, M r s . Abbott and M r s . E v a n s ; absent, Governor Deneen, Mr. Barber and Mr. Bullard who was not able to come on account of illness. President James was present. President James submitted the following matters for consideration: 1. A request from Professor L. H. Bailey of the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, on behalf of the Committee on Graduate Study of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, to make an annual contribution of $25 toward the expenses of maintaining a graduate summer school in agriculture. It was voted that the request be granted. 2. Professor L. H. Bailey also submits a request to the University of Illinois to hold such a graduate school during the coming summer at Urbana. It was voted that authority be given to the Dean of the Faculty of the College of Agriculture to hold such a graduate school during the summer of 1906, and that the sum of $300 be appropriated from the college extension funds to meet the necessary preliminary expenses of organizing and advertising the school. 3. The owners of a certain forty-acre tract of land, at the front of the block known as South farm, represented by Mr. Saffell, have offered to lease to the University the said forty acres for the sum of $500 a year, giving to the University an option to buy the land at the price of $10,000. It was voted to authorize the officers of the Board to execute the said lease. 4. A communication from Vice President Burrill, stating that the Trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association, at their meeting yesterday afternoon, had authorized the sale of the lots held by that association, to the east of the Engineering building, to the University for the sum of $15,000. It was voted that the proper authorities secure a legal option for the purchase of this property at the said price. 5. A letter from Professor Forbes, requesting that his position in the University and his relation to the various departments be considered, with a view to simplifying his work and reducing somewhat his responsibility for one or another of the various enterprises. W i t h regard to this letter the following resolution offered by M r . Nightingale was adopted: WHEREAS, A communication has been received from, Professor Forbes asking for a consideration of his complicated relations to the affairs of, the University, and the propriety of readjusting them along simpler lines; therefore, ;7 Resolved, That-the Board of Trustees > hereby expresses its deep appreciation of the services of Dean Forbes as State Entomologist, Director, of tjie State Laboratory of Nattiral History, as well as Professor of Zoology; and further Resolved, That the President of the University be requested to have a conference with Dean Forbes concerning his varied responsibilities and his desires and report to the Board in the near future some plan for such a readjustment as will subserve the interests of entomology, those of the University and, so far as possible, meet the wishes of Dean Forbes. 6. A request from Professor Thomas A. Clark, Director of the Summer School, that a free scholarship in the summer session be offered each accredited high school in the State.