Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912 [PAGE 629]

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1912]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OF TRUSTEES.

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that the service is about as satisfactory as it can be made. We are feeling our way in the matter of press service, and so far as we can discover we are reaching the maximum number of people with the minimum effort. While it cannot be included in the list of complaints, I ought to say that what is perhaps our greatest difficulty arises from requests of individuals for a class of information that cannot be given without making a special study of their individual conditions. Representative Blank asks if he cannot have the soil of his farm analyzed, reminding us that he voted for our bill. This calls for a letter of explanation in whichTwe show that the only way to study the soils of the State consistently is by the study of types •—not individual farms. This, I am glad to say, has in every case proved entirely satisfactory, and I believe in no instance has'the individual held an objection against the University for not at once entering into a study of his own special problem. In this way the Experiment Station serves the individual only so far as the information at hand will go, and it does not expend its funds or its energy in needless service beyond that point. In a few- rare cases, when the problem presented had a broader significance, we have gone into the case, and in that way secured information which was of special value to the individual, but the point of view has always been the public need. Yours very truly,

E. DAVENPOKT,

Director. REAPPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WORMSER. (9) A request for authority to reappoint Mr. I. M. Wormser assistant professor of Law, for the academic year beginning Sept. 1, 1912, at a salary of * $2,200.00. I t was voted, on motion of Mr. Hatch,- that the president of the University be authorized to make this appointment. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Anthony, Mrs. Bahrenburg., Mr. Grout, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore; noes, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Deneen, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Meeker. RESIGNATION OF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR USHER. , (10) The resignation of Miss Susannah Usher as assistant professor of Household Science. I t was voted to accept Miss Usher's resignation. PAVING OF LINCOLN AVENUE. (11) A communication from the Honorable Frank H. Boggs, mayor of Urbana, transmitting a petition for the paving of Lincoln avenue from the north end of the Forestry running south to the city limits, and of Michigan avenue from Lincoln avenue to Orchard street, signed by a majority of the owners of the abutting property, together with the engineer's estimate of the cost of this improvement to the University. This communication was accompanied by a suggestion from Professor James M. White, supervising architect, that the University ought not to agree to the paving of Lincoln avenue until the city of Urbana shall have provided an adequate outlet for the drainage of that portion of the University grounds which drains naturally in the direction of Lincoln avenue. This communication, with the accompanying suggestion, was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for consideration and report. •