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1905]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OP TRUSTEES.

PKOFESSOR BROOKS'S REQUEST FOB L I G H T AND HEAT.

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With regard to Professor Brooks's request for light and heat at reduced rates for a dormitory building, your committee reports that Professor Brooks, after investigating with regard to the cost of the proposed building and the probable income therefrom, has decided not to proceed with the matter, and so withdraws his request. Respectfully submitted,

S. A. BULLARD, W. B. MCKINLEY, ALEXANDER MCLEAN, A. F. NIGHTINGALE,

Committee on Buildings and Grounds. T h e following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That a special committee of three members of the Board be named by the President of the Board to ascertain and report the facts of the rumored imprudent connection of any person responsible for the good name of the University with the promotion of certain phosphate mines in Tennecsee. T h e committee appointed is M r . Bayliss, c h a i r m a n ; Messrs. McLean and McKinley.

INCIDENTAL FEES.

T h e vote by which the incidental fee was reduced from twelve to ten dollars a semester (see p. 45) was reconsidered, and it was then voted not to change the fee.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

On motion of Mr. McLean the Board voted that M r . Bullard should be chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds. T h e President of the Board named the standing committees as follows: Agriculture—Leonidas H. Kerrick, chairman; Austin D. Barber, Mrs. Mary E. Busey. Buildings and Grounds—Samuel A. Bullard, chairman; Alexander McLean, William B. McKinley, William L. Abbott, Mrs. Laura B. Evans. Finance—Alexander McLean, chairman; Leonidas H. Kerrick, William L. Abbott. Instruction—Mrs. Carrie T. Alexander, chairman; Alfred Bayliss, Leonidas H. Kerrick. Publication—Dr. Charles Davison, chairman; Alfred Bayliss, Mrs. Laura B. Evans. Library—Mrs. Laura B. Evans, chairman; Dr. Charles Davison, Leonidas II. Kerrick. Students' Welfare—Mrs. Mary E. Busey, chairman; Mrs. Carrie T. Alexander, Mrs. Laura B. Evans. School of Pharmacy—William L. Abbott, chairman; Mrs. Carrie T. Alexander, Mrs. Mary E. Busey. College of Medicine—Alexander McLean, chairman; Dr. Charles Davison, Wiliam B. McKinley. Engineering—William B. McKinley, chairman; William L. Abbott, Alexander McLean. T h e Board adjourned.

W . L. P I L L S B U R Y , S. A. BULLARD,

Secretary.

President.