Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1910 [PAGE 494]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Sept.. 21

The communication was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for report. 5. A recommendation that the President of the University be authorized to select a professor of Chemistry to fill the vacancy in the School of Pharmacy, with the approval of the Committee on College of Medicine and School of Pharmacy. The recommendation was approved. 6. A communication from Dr. Burrill was presented relating to the students' loan fund and asking that the board loan twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) of this fund. Comptroller Shattuck made a statement to the board concerning the condition of the fund. No action was taken. 7. A request from the Champaign and Urbana Water Company for permission to lay a water main across the campus south of the Auditorium. The request was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with power to act on the condition t h a t the interests of the University be guarded by referring the contract to the counsel of the University. 8. A request that the following appointments made during the summer by the President of the University be approved by the board: First—Dr. Charles Zeleny, assistant professor of Zoology, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) per year, work and salary to begin Sept. 1, 1909. Second—William G. Hale, instructor in law for the academic year 1909-10, at a salary of two thousand dollars ($2,000,000) per year, beginning Sept. 1, 1909. Third—Edward H. Decker, instructor in law, at a salary of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per annum for the academic year beginning Sept. 1, 1909. Fourth—Howard V. Canter, associate in the classics for the term of two years beginning Sept. 1, 1909, at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800.00) in place of Dr. F. H. Allen, resigned. By the following vote the appointments were approved: Yeas, Messrs. Abbott, Blair, Crebs, Davison, Hatch,, Meeker, Moore and Mrs. Bahrenburg and Mrs. E v a n s ; nays, n o n e ; absent, Governor Deneen, Mr. Grout and Mrs. Busey. 9. A request from Professor L. H. Smith, endorsed by the Dean of the College of Agriculture, that the title of C. H. Myers, appointed Assistant in Chemistry, be changed to Assistant in Plant Breeding. I t was voted t h a t the change be made. 10. A recommendation that upon the request of the Dean of the College of Agriculture the title of Leonard H'egnauer, as stated on page 242 of the minutes of the meeting of July 21st, be changed to read ,as follows: > Leonard Hegnauer to be Associate in Crop Production, in the College of Agriculture and in College Extension, and to be Assistant in Crops in the Agricultural Experiment Station, at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800.00) per annum. Approved. 11. Requests from the Dean of the College of Agriculture: First—For authority to purchase an experimental orchard. Referred to the Committee on Agriculture for report. Second—That the proper authorities be authorized to sign a lease for the coming year at a rate not to exceed sixty dollars a month for the so-called Shawhan house for the Domestic Science Department. Motion was made that the recommendation be approved.