Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1908
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436 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [April 3 Meeting of April 3, 1908. A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held at the Palmer House in Chicago, April 3, 1908, pursuant to the following notice which was sent out by the secretary, March 26, 1908 : Upon the call of the President, Mr. W. L. Abbott, there will be a special meeting- of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Friday, April, 3, 1908, at the Palmer House in Chicago, at 9:30 o'clock a. m., to receive reports of committees, to consider the communication of Professor Kemp, and to act upon any other matters which may be regularly brought before the Board. When the board met pursuant to this call the following members . were present: Messrs. Abbott, Blair, Davison, Hatch, Lehman, and Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Alexander, and Mrs. Busey. Mr. Madden and Governor Deneen came in a little late. President James was present. MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT JAMES. The president submitted the following matters for consideration: 1. The President of the University read his annual address to the Board of Trustees in which he set forth at considerable length the working out of the plan for the development of the University which had been submitted to the Board of Trustees and approved by them June 2, 1905, and sketched out the general line of further development. After the reading "of this address the trustees on motion of Mrs. Alexander went into executive session for the consideration of the address. By vote of the board of trustees of the University of Illinois at its meeting held September 29, 1908, the following changes were made: In the first line of paragraph numbered one the words "his annual" were changed to "an." There was added at the end of this paragraph—"and recommended that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby re-affirm their approval of the general University policy thus far developed by the President of the University." The following paragraph was then added: Mr. Blair moved the adoption of the recommendation of the president. The paragraph beginning "after the reading," etc., was changed to read as follows:
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