Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906 [PAGE 70]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

44

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Feb. 20

Your committee is of opinion that at the proper time this should be done, and respectfully recommends that the President of the University be requested to report upon its present practicability at the regular meeting of this Board in June, 1905; and, in the event that he is of opinion that such a reorganization of the department of education would be good University policy at this time, to make such recommendations as he may wish to submit for the consideration of the Board of Trustees.

ALFBED BAYLISS, ALICE ASBTJBY ABBOTT, A. F. NIGHTINGALE, NAMING. WOMAN'S BUILDING.

Committee.

President Hatch said he had received a large number of letters suggesting names for the woman's building. It was voted that these letters should be deposited with the secretary for future reference. The Board then took a recess until 2 130 p. m.

Afternoon Session, February 20, 1905. When the Board met after the recess the same members were present as in the morning except Mr. Kerrick. A communication was received from Collins Bros, asking that the time for the completion of the woman's building be extended from March 1, 1905, to July 1, 1905. It was voted that the request be granted; provided, however, that any additional expenses incurred by the University on account of the salary of the superintendent or in any other ways, because of such extension, should be paid by Collins Bros. On motion of Mrs. Abbott it was voted that a bronze tablet in the usual form with the names of the members of the Trustees and the President of the University at the time of the erection of the building, be placed in the woman's building, and that the Committee on Buildings and Grounds be charged with the erection of the tablet. The following resolution was adopted: WHEREAS, The present Trustees hold office until their successors are elected and qualified, and deeming it to the best interests of all concerned, Resolved, That the retiring Trustees attend the March meeting, to introduce their successors.,

OPTION ON THE Y. M. C. A. LOTS.

Authority was given the President of the Board to accept the option on their lots east of Engineering hall tendered by the. trustees of the Y. M. C. A. connected with the University, or on better terms as to cash payment or time, if such concessions could be secured, and to report to the Board.