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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912
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1912] PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Mrs. Bnsey, Professor - " 593 was On motion * of accepted. ColvinV resignation APPOINTMENT OF DR. COPFMAN. (3) A recommendation that Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, at present supervisor of the Training School of the Eastern Illinois Normal School at Charleston, 111., be appointed professor of Education at a, salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum, beginning Sept. 1, 1912. On motion of Mr. Grout, this appointment was made. APPOINTMENT OF ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BURGE. (4) A recommendation that Dr. W. E. Burge, now of Johns Hopkins University, be appointed assistant professor of Physiology for one year beginning Sept. 1, 1912, at a salary of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the year. On motion of Mr. Grout, this appointment was made: CASE OF A STUDENT INJURED IN A LABORATORY. (5) A communication from Mr. DeWitt S. Crowe, a sophomore student in the College of Engineering, stating that while engaged in a chemical experiment he was severely burned by having a concentrated solution of chlorine poured upon his back, and requesting,that the University should* bear, either in whole or in part, the expenses of the hospital residence and physician's care necessitated by this accident, amounting to $90.20; accompanied by a statement from Prof. T. A. Clark, dean of Men, that he had made an examination- of the case and that in his opinion neither the student nor the instructor who were with Mr. Crowe at the time the accident happened was in any way to blame, and that the University is in no way responsible for such accidents. On motion of Mr. Hoit, it was voted t h a t tile Board of Trustees of the University cannot recognize any liability in such accidents. APPOINTMENT OF INSTRUCTOR IN DOMESTIC SCIENCE. (6) A recommendation that Miss Ruth "Wheeler be appointed instructor in Household Science, vice Miss Susannah Usher, resigned, for one year beginning Sept. 1, 1912, at a salary of sixteen hundred dollars ($1,600.00) for the year. On motion of Mr. Hatch, this recommendation was approved. ADJUSTMENT OF SALARY OF DR. BOARDMAN. ^ (7) A request from Dr. William E. Quine, dean of the College of Medicine, that the, present incumbent of the chair of anatomy in the College of Medicine, Dr. Leonard C. Boardman, should receive one hundred dollars ($100.00) more for his services for the current academic year than was assigned to him in the budget; Dean Quine stated that he had originally intended to recommend a salary of eleven hundred forty dollars ($1,140.00) in Dr. Boardman's case and that the amount indicated in the budget, ten hundred forty dollars ($1,040.00) had been sent in through a clerical mistake in his office. On motion of Mr. H a t c h this request was granted, and the approp r i a t i o n of one hundred dollars ($100.00) involved was made, to be —38 U
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