Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1906 [PAGE 100]

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UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS.

[June 2

7. The President presented a communication from the Misses Sarah and Alice Abbott in regard to certain furniture for the Woman's building. Said recommendation was referred to the Committee on F u r n i s h i n g the W o m a n ' s Building. 8. A communication from Dean Kinley was presented in regard to a proposed School of Accountancy. I t was referred to the Committee on Instruction of the Board of Trustees. COURSE IN CERAMICS. 9. It was recommended that a course in Ceramics be constituted in the University, at a cost not to exceed $5,000 per year, the amount appropriated by the Legislature at its last session for this purpose, and that the President of the University be authorized to submit to the Board the outline of a suitable curriculum and to nominate the necessary instructors in this department so that, if possible, work may begin in the coming autumn. It is further recommended that in the organization of such a course an Advisory Committee be constituted, to which the Illinois Clay Workers' Association and other similar organizations may be invited to elect members; and, further, that 102 free scholarships—one for each county—be granted in this course, to be assigned by the University on nomination of the City Workers' Association. Voted that these recommendations be adopted. 10. The President announced that by virtue of the authority given him at a previous meeting of the Board he had appointed Mr. Henry J. Van de*n Berg as instructor in piano in the Music School of the University at a salary of $1,200, beginning Sept. 1, 1905. ADDITIONAL RIFLES AND BOND. 11. The President presented a letter from the Professor of Military Science and Tactics asking that a requisition be made upon the War Department for 160 additional rifles and equipments, and that the Board pass a resolution authorizing the proper authorities to furnish a bond for double the value of the property called for. Voted that the proper authorities of the Board be authorized t o furnish a bond to the W a r Department of the United States to the amount of $5,114.88 for the purpose of obtaining from the W a r Department 160 additional rifles and equipments for the University regiment. AUDITORIUM. 12. The President recommended that a commission be appointed to report to the Trustees of the University, at the earliest possible date, a suitable plan for an auditorium building, the cost not to exceed $100,000, with recommendations as to the place where it shall be located on the campus; and that such commission consist of the President of the University, of the members of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, of the Board of Trustees, of Professors Ricker, White and Wells of the Department of Architecture of the University and Messrs. Clarence Howard Blackall and Lorado Taft of the Alumni of the University. And further recommended that Mr. Clarence Howard Blackall of Boston, Massachusetts, be selected as architect of the auditorium building, if satisfactory terms can be arranged with him. Voted that the first part of the recommendation be approved, and that the second part, relating to the choice of an architect, be deferred for final acion until the meeting of the Board on Monday, J u n e 5.