Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912 [PAGE 86]

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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS.

[Oct. 15

It appears that identical resolutions were adopted by other associations of teachers in the State, and a similar resolution has been adopted twice by the State Teachers' Association meeting in Springfield, 111. (e) Request for an addition to the Woman's building, which shall provide ( l ) a much needed enlargement of the facilities of the Department of Household Science; (2) new facilities for the woman's gymnasium; (3) an increased number of rooms for the use of the music school; said addition to cost not less than $150,000.00. It will be noted that the original scheme of the Woman's building provides* for an addition east of it, fronting Burrill avenue, as large as or larger than the present building. The location of Lincoln hall was made with reference to the possible location of some such addition to the Woman's building in the future, and there is ample room left between the building line of Lincoln hall and the present Woman's building for the erection of such an addition in case the trustees should decide upon it. (f) The Engineering Department will request: (1) For the maintenance and increase of the salary budget of the College of Engineering, per annum, $50,000.00. (2) For the maintenance and extension of equipment of the College of Engineering, and the work of the Engineering Experiment Station, per annum, $75,000.00. (3) For the work of the Department of Mining Engineering, per annum, $15,000.00. (4) For the location, erection and equipment of an additional engineering building, $300,000.00'. The president noted further that there are other matters which will form the basis of requests from the engineering college; t h a t urgent requests from all departments for more rapid additions to the University Library seem to necessitate a request for a considerable additional appropriation for the.purchase of books; t h a t the appropriation for the College of Law should certainly be increased; t h a t the demands from every department of the University for more adequate facilities for advanced work indicate the very great importance of an increased appropriation for the Graduate School; and that the requests for appropriations from the various departments of the Colleges of Literature and Arts and Science, and from the College of Agriculture and the Agricultural Experiment Station, will be submitted to the board at the earliest opportunity. T h e following communication was received from Professor S. W. Shattuck, Comptroller:

URBANA, Sept. 13, 1910.

Mr. W. L. Abbott, President, Board of Trustees, University of Illinois: * DEAR SIR—The board is requested to appropriate $500.00 to cover the expenditure of the fines collected in the Library, and other similar items. It has been the custom to have this appropriation to use. The board is also requested to appropriate $500.00 on account of the telephone exchange. The $1,500.00 appropriated by the State for this purpose was for one year only and is exhausted. Respectfully submitted,

S. W. SHATTUCK,

Comptroller. I t was voted t h a t the first request, for the appropriation to the library of five hundred dollars ($500) to cover the expenditure of the fines collected and other similar items, be approved.