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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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ment Station, at a salary of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, work and salary to date from the time when he reports for service; which it is expected will be some time during the month of April, 1913. This recommendation was approved, the vote being as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Anthony, Mrs. Bahrenburg, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Moore; noes, none; absent, Mr. Deneen, Mr. Hatch.

DEPOSIT FOR P R I N T I N G OF DOCTORS' T H E S E S .

(3) A recommendation from the Executive Faculty of the Graduate School that the following new regulations be adopted with reference to the deposit of a bond or cash to guarantee the printing of doctors' theses: 1. The doctor's thesis must be printed, and one hundred copies deposited in the Library of the University, not later than the first of June preceding the conferring of the degree. If it is not printed by tlie first of June, the student must deposit seventy-five dollars ($75) or a bond for that amount satisfactory to the Comptroller of the University and the Dean of the Graduate School. If a bond is accepted, it must be replaced at the end of one year with a cash deposit. At the end of two years, if the thesis has not then been printed by the student, the University will print such part of it as it deems best, using for the purpose the cash deposit made by the student. 2. The cash deposit made by a student who does not print his thesis by the end of the second year after his degree is conferred becomes the property of the University, to be used for the general purpose of printing theses, and all graduate students who receive their degrees must agree at the time when the deposit is made that the University shall become owner of this deposit for this purpose. 3. This rule shall go into effect at the opening of the University year, September 1, 1912. On motion of Mr. Blair, the foregoing regulations were approved as recommended.

A P P O I N T M E N T TO T H E BOARD OF E X A M I N E R S I N ACCOUNTANCY.

(4) A recommendation from the University Committee on Accountancy that Mr. Marquis Eaton ,of the firm of Defrees, Buckingham, Bitter and Eaton of Chicago, be appointed a member of the Board of Examiners in Accountancy for the term of three years ending July 1, 1915. On motion of Mrs. B a h r e n b u r g , t h i s recommendation w a s approved.

USE O F U N I V E R S I T Y B U I L D I N G S ON SUNDAYS.

(5) The following resolution adopted by the University Senate on December 2, 1912: Resolved, That, in the judgment of the Senate, University buildings, libraries, laboratories and drawing-rooms should be open on Sunday for the use of instructors and students only in case of special necessity and not for ordinary everyday work. On motion of Mr. Blair, it was voted that it is the opinion of the Board of Trustees that the University buildings should not be open to students, or members of the instructing or scientific staff, or administrative officials, for work oh Sunday, except in cases of necessity, such as the necessary care and feeding of animals, necessary care and observation on continuous experiments, and necessary care of buildings and plant, and in such other cases of emergency as may seem to be of real importance* and that departures from this principle should be authorized by action of the board.

HORTICULTURAL A N D FLORICULTURAL SERVICE A N D CONTRACTS. BUILDINGS: BIDS

(6) A letter from Professor James M. White, Supervising Architect, stating that, th6 bids on the horticultural and floricultural service buildings are to .be received on December 20, 1912, and asking that authority be given to open these bid£ and award the contracts on the buildings. It was voted to authorize the Executive Committee to open the bids on the horticultural and floricultural service buildings and to award the contract^ the vote being as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Anthony, Mrs. Bahrenburg* Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Moore; noes, none; absent, Mr. Deneen, Mr. Hatch.