Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912 [PAGE 502]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[July 8

I t was moved to approve the budget as submitted. As an amendment to thi$ motion, it was moved t h a t the salary of the president of the University, be made twelve thousand dollars ($12,000.00) a year, beginning S e p t - l , 1911. This amendment was passed. The motion to approve the budget was then passed as amended. The president of the University presented the following additional matters for consideration: LOCATION OF SCHOOL OP COMMERCE BUILDING. 1. A recommendation of the Supervising Architect that the School of Commerce building, for which the Forty-seventh General Assembly appropriated $125,000.00, be approximately 232 feet in length, north and south, by 187 feet, east and west, and be placed 203 feet west of the campus axis, and with the center of the facade on an axis with the Chemistry Laboratory, the west facade being thus located approximately 66 feet from the east curb of Wright street; and that the central portion of this building, 150 feet more or less in length, facing on Wright street, be erected at the present time with the appropriation mentioned above. This recommendation was approved. LOCATION OF ARMORY. 2. A recommendation of the Supervising Architect that the new armory, for which the Forty-seventh General Assembly appropriated $100,000.00, be located east of Mathews avenue, between the Agricultural plots and the line of the south fence of the Horticultural grounds extended, with the west wall of the main mass of the building 100 feet east of Mathews avenue; and that the building shall be designed to provide a clear floor area of about 200 by 400 feet, with the* necessary accessory rooms. Action upon this recommendation was deferred until a later meeting. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENTOMOLOGY. 3. A recommendation that Dr. A. D. McGillivray be appointed assistant professor of Systematic Entomology, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) a year, beginning Sept. 1, 1911. This recommendation was approved.

PURCHASE OF FERGUSON PROPERTY.

4. A recommendation from Professor S. W. Shattuck, comptroller, stating that an option has been secured at $1,800.00 upon the land owned by Mr. T. A. Ferguson, between Mathews avenue and Goodwin avenue, bounded on the south by Silver Creek, commonly known as the Boneyard, containing one hundred sixty-five (165) feet north and south by one hundred thirty-two (132) feet east and west, being one-half (y2) acre more or less. I t was voted t h a t the proper officers of the board be authorized to purchase the said property for the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800.00), and t h a t an appropriation of this amount be made for this purpose, to be charged against the fund for the engineering building and ground.