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1910]

PROCEEDINGS OF T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES. MATTERS P R E S E N T E D BY P R E S I D E N T J A M E S .

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The president of the University presented the following matters for consideration: 1. A request from Professor N. A. Weston for leave of absence on half pay for purposes of foreign study from September, 1910, to Aug. 31; 1911. Voted that said request be granted. 2. Communication from Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins and Dean Eugene Davenport, with the statement that three tracts of land had been donated to the University as experiment stations, and inclosing three warranty deeds transferring said lands to the University of Illinois for experiment fields, as follows: One deed for about fifteen (15) acres, one-half mile south of the railroad station at Raleigh in Saline county, from E. E. Burkhart and wife. A second deed for thirty (30) acres adjoining the village of Unionville in Massac county, from William J. Sharp and wife. A third deed from Frank Coffman and wife for twenty (20) acres adjoining the town of Mt. Morris in Ogle county. Voted t h a t said communications and documents be referred to the Committee on Agriculture, with the request for a report. 3. Communication from Dr. Cyril G. Hopkins inclosing an experiment field lease made the 8th of January, 1910, between George Postel, Mascoutah, St. Clair county, Illinois, and the University of Illinois, for fourteen and one-half (14%) acres of land in township one (1) south, range six. (6) west, of the third (3d) principal meridian, for sixteen (16) years, at a rental of eight dollars ($8.00) per acre. Yoted t h a t said communication with enclosed documents, be referred to the Committee on Agriculture with the request for a report. 4. A communication from Dean David Kinley concerning diplomas for recipients of advanced degrees. Voted that the president of the University be authorized to order a new plate from which to engrave diplomas for professional engineering degrees and other advanced degrees, and t h a t the sum of five hundred •dollars ($500), or as much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated for the same from graduate school funds. Ayes, Abbott, Davison, Grout, Hatch and Moore, and Mrs. Busey and Mrs. E v a n s ; nays, n o n e ; absent, Governor Deneen and Messrs. Blair, Crebs and Meeker, and Mrs. Bahrenburg. 5. Certain recommendations from the Senate of the University, concerning honorary degrees. Voted t h a t the president of the University is authorized to confer the appropriate honorary degrees upon the persons recommended for the same by the University Senate. 6. Recommendation from the executive faculty of the Graduate School that the sum of twenty-two thousand four hundred dollars ($22,400) be appropriated for scholarships and fellowships during the academic year 191011, of which twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) shall be charged to the general fund of the University and twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to the Graduate School fund. A further recommendation that the President of the University be authorized to appoint such persons to these fellowships and scholarships as may be recommended by the executive faculty of the Graduate School. Yoted that said appropriation be made and t h a t said authority be given to the president of the University. Ayes, Abbott, Davison, Grout,