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PKOCEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OF TRUSTEES.

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president, nor its legal counsel has been a party to it or has in any wise consented to it or encouraged it. Sincerely yours,

O. A. HARKER, HISTORY. APPOINTMENT OF A N A S S I S T A N T PROFESSOR OF

(11) A request that authority be given to the President of the University to appoint Dr. Frederick Duncalf, now Adjunct Professor of History in the University of Texas, to be Assistant Professor of History in the University of Illinois, for a term of three years beginning September 1, 1913, at a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) per annum. On motion of Miss Watson, it was voted that such authority be given. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Meeker.

APPOINTMENT OF A N ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY.

(12) A request that authority be given to the President of the University to appoint Dr. Albert Howe Lybyer, now Professor of History in Oberlin College, to be Associate Professor of History in the University of Illinois, at a salary of twenty-eight hundred dollars ($2,800) per annum, beginning September 1, 1913. On motion of Mr. Montgomery, it was voted that such authority be given. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Hoit, Mr, Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Meeker.

DR. WASHBURN MADE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY.

(13) A recommendation that authority be given to the President of the University to appoint Dr. Edward Wight Washburn, now Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry in the University of Illinois, to be Professor of Physical Chemistry, at a salary of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500) per annum, beginning September 1, 1913. On motion of Mrs. Evans, it was voted that such authority be given. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Meeker.

NOTE AND INTEREST DUE, COLLEGE OF M E D I C I N E PROPERTY.

(14) The following statements and recommendation with reference to a note and interest due, being liabilities contracted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. (a) A statement from Mr. F. P. Schreiber, Cashier of the Union Trust Company, Chicago, addressed to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, that a payment of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and the semi-annual interest on a seventy-six thousand dollars ($76,000) loan amounting to nineteen hundred dollars ($1,900), will become due and payable at the office of the said Trust Company on July 1, 1913 ; this being a loan made to the College of Physicians and Surgeons by the School Board of the city of Chicago. (b) A further statement from Mr. E. J. Prescott, Secretary of the Chicago Savings Bank and Trust Company, addressed to Dr. D. A. K. Steele, President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, that coupons on the bonds of the College of Physicians and Surgeons are due and payable on July 1, 1913, and in addition a charge of one-quarter of- one per cent by the Chicago Savings Bank and Trust Company for paying the same. The sums due July 1, 1913, therefore, if the above statements are correct, are as follows: Board of Education mortgage note $10,000 00 Semi-annual interest on the $76,000 mortgage at 5 per cent 1,900 00 Semi-annual interest on the $60,000 mortgage bonds (on the old building) at 6 per cent interest 1,800 00 Commission to the bank for paying this interest 4 50 Semi-annual interest on mortgage bonds on the old high school building, at 6 per cent ...' 3,270 00 Total $16,974 50 (c) A recommendation that the counsel of the University be authorized to pay the interest due on said mortgage and bonds, including the commission to the bank for paying interest, and t h a t he be instructed to secure, if possible, an extension of the Board of Education mortgage note for ten thousand dollars for as long a term as may be feasible.