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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912
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154 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [June 22 URBANA, I I I . , June 17, 1911. President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois: DEAR SIR—I transmit herewith a letter from Dr. Carman, setting forth his objections to the location of the kiln house on the area between the 9 Physics building and the boneyard. It seems to me that Dr. Carman's objections are well taken. I should be glad if the question at issue could be given a somewhat Wider interpretation. For example, the Department of Ceramics should be grouped with, the Department of Mining Engineering, and with this there will ultimately be grouped a considerable amount of applied Work in chemistry. I have no doubt that when we get a Mining Engineering building it will provide for ceramics and for a considerable amount of chemistry. At the present moment, the Department of Ceramics has some money which can be expended for buildings and equipment. The Department of f i n i n g Engineering has $25,000.00 for equipment, a portion of which could probably be expended for a building. I would propose that we combine at this time these two interests, so far as buildings are involved; that we determine upon a site which will ultimately be occupied by a Mining Engineering building, and that we erect from the combined funds such outlying or laboratory portions of the proposed Mining Engineering building as may be possible. If this general proposition can be agreed to, there ought to be no great difficulty in finding the necessary location. Respectfully submitted, W. F. M. Goss. 3. Professor Carman's letter, referred to in the foregoing communication of Dean Goss: URBANA, I I I . , June 17, 1911. "President E. J. James, University of Illinois: DEAR SIR—You have asked me to write my opinion of the plan of using for a ceramics kiln-house the north end of. the lot which was bought by legislative appropriation as a site for the Physics building, and most of which is now occupied by the part of the Physics building which has been completed. I do not believe that this space should be used for a ceramics building. My reasons are: 1. It should be reserved for the extension of the Physics building as it has been planned. It cannot be stated definitely when that extension will be required, but it may be within the next five years, if the engineering college should increase and also if we should have an increase in the number of students taking physics from the courses in liberal arts. 2. A building of the character of the kiln-house means fire, gases, and more or less smoke, and there will also be dust and dirt. With a strong north wind this last spring, the laboratories in the west wing of the Physics building were, during one week, filled with soot and cinders, seemingly from the present kiln-house. The danger of this would be very much increased by the larger structure now contemplated. 3. The building proposed, I know, is said to be "temporary," but a $30,000.00 "temporary" building is likely to stay for twenty years. We must remember that the expenditure for this building will not end with the $30,000.00, but there will be considerable amounts spent annually in equipment of the same, most of which cannot be removed. I, therefore, do not believe that the plea of its being a temporary condition ought to allow a structure of this kind to go up where nobody would consider it properly placed as a part of our permanent development. If this is really "temporary" and "for six years," would it not be better to lease a site? I am forwarding this through Dean Goss that he may add such comment as he wishes. Yours truly, A. P. CARMAN, Professor of Physics.
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