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1905]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

Adjourned Session, February 2 0 , 1 9 0 5 .

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W h e n the Board met pursuant to adjournment the members present were Messrs. Bayliss, Bullard, H a t c h , Kerrick, 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. McKinley. President James was present. T h e President submitted the following matters for consideration: 1. Request from Professor S. A. Forbes that he be relieved of the deanship of the College of Science at the close of the current college year. T h e request was granted, to take effect J u n e 30, 1905. 2. A report from the special committee to which the matter was referred, with power to act, that the claim of the Hibernian Bank of Chicago to a balance due on the contract with Kelly & O'Brien, $2,008.49, had been paid to the bank as the representative of Kelly & O'Brien, and that the University holds the bond of the bank for $5,000 to indemnify it from loss, if any. T h e report of the committee was received for record. 3. Letters from Professor Morgan Brooks and the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company to the effect that the company had donated to the University a 45-kilowatt generator, valued at $600. It was voted to accept the gift and to return the thanks of the board therefor. 4. A request, approved by Professor Shattuck, head of the Department of Mathematics, from Joel Stebbins, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, for leave of absence from the University from June 8 to October 1, 1905, to act as assistant to the party which is to be sent to J[jabrat[6r in June, 1£05? -by the Lick Observatory of California for the purpose of observing the total eclipse of the sun, which will occur August 30, 1905. I t was voted that such leave be granted. 5. The Council of Administration, after full and repeated consideration, recommends to the Board of Trustees that the privilege of the household science scholarships, hitherto available only in the College of Agriculture, should be extended to all the colleges of the University. Voted to approve this recommendation so far as to extend the privileges of the scholarships to the College of Literature and Arts, extension having been already made to the College of Science, the extension i n both cases to go into effect in relation to students now holding scholarships, at a date to be designated by the President of the University. 6. The following amendments to the rules relating to scholarships in agriculture and in household science: 1 1. Amend No. 3 in accordance with the rule adopted making the scholarship in Household Science available also in the College of Literature and Arts and in the College of Science. 2. Amend No. 4 by adding: "Provided, That for counties or districts in which there are no such domestic science associations, candidates may be appointed on the recommendation of the Illinois Farmers' Institute." 3. Substitute for No. 5 the following: - "That in case there should be additional acceptable candidates for either scholarship recommended after the first from any county or district, such additional candidates not exceeding five from any one county or district, may be assigned to other counties or districts from which there are no acceptable candidates."