Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1910 [PAGE 207]

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1909]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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SEC. 5. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the sum hereby appropriated, payable out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated upon the order of the Board of Trustees of said University, attested by its secretary and with the corporate seal of said University thereto attached. Approved June 8, 1909. 2. Recommendation that the funds granted by the Legislature for the biennium 1909-11 be assigned to the various purposes indicated in the law, subject to the usual appropriation acts by the Board of Trustees of the University. The recommendation was adopted by the following vote: Yeas, Governor Deneen, Messrs. Abbott, Blair, Davison, Hatch, Grout, Meeker, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Busey; nays, n o n e ; absent, Crebs, Moore, Mrs. Alexander. 3. The following recommendations for appointment: (a) That Professor Henry Baldwin Ward of the University of Nebraska be appointed Professor of Zoology in the University of Illinois at a salary of four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) per annum, work and salary to begin Sept. 1, 1909. • On motion of Mr. Blair, and by the following vote the appointment was m a d e : Yeas, Governor Deneen, Messrs. Abbott, Blair, Davison, Grout, Hatch, Meeker and Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Busey; nays, none; absent, Crebs, Moore and Mrs. Alexander. (b) 1. That W. S. Robertson be appointed assistant professor of history at a salary of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per year, work and salary to begin Sept. 1, 1909. 2. That John A. Fairlie be appointed associate professor of. political science at a salary of twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars ($2,750.00) per annum, work and salary to begin Sept. 1, 1909. 3. That Ernest L. Bogart be appointed associate professor of economics at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per annum, work and salary to begin Sept. 1, 1909. 4. That Dr. Jacob Kunz be appointed assistant professor of physics at a salary not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum, for the term of two years from Sept. 1, 1909. 5. That Fred L. Charles be appointed assistant professor of agricultural education at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00). per annum, work and salary to date from Sept. 1, 1909. 6. That Dr. W. S.' Bagley be appointed director of the School of Education for one year from Sept. 1, .1909, at a salary as director and professor of education, of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500.00) per annum from Sept. 1, 1909. 7. That the president of the University be authorized to offer the position of associate professor of the classics, at a salary of twenty-seven hundred and fifty dollars ($2,750.00) from Sept. 1, 1909, to Professor W. 0L Oldfather of Northwestern University. 8. That the president be authorized to offer the position of assistant professor of Romance Languages, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per annum, from Sept. 1, 1909, to Dr. John D. Fitzgerald «of Columbia University. 9. That the president be authorized to offer an assistant professorship of the Scandinavian languages, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) from Sept. 1, 1909, to George T. Flom, Professor in the University of Iowa. 10. That the president be authorized to offer an assistant professorship of education, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per annum, from Sept. 1, 1909, to Dr. Lewis F. Anderson of the Marquette State Normal School.