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PROCEEDINGS OE THE BOAED OF TRUSTEES.

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College, and voted that the Supervising Architect be instructed to proceed at once with this construction; this matter having been referred to the committee, with power to act, at the meeting of March 19, 1912 (Report, 1912, p. 570). Respectfully • submitted, Committee on Agriculture. The foregoing report of the Committee on Agriculture, of the date of April 20, 1912, was received for record. REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND AGRICULTURE. AND GROUNDS

FRED L». HATCH., A. P. GROUT, O. W. HOIT,

The secretary presented also the following report of a joint meeting of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds and the Committee on Agriculture:

URBANA, I I I . , April 20, 1912.

To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: Your Committees on Buildings and Grounds and Agriculture held a joint meeting at the University on this date. There were present: Mr. Abbott and Mrs. Busey, of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds; Messrs. Grout and Hoit, of the Committee on Agriculture; Mr. Hatch, member of both committees, and Professor White, Supervising Architect.

HORTICULTURAL GREENHOUSES: LOCATION AND APPROPRIATION,

The joint committee considered the request for authority for the removal of the horticultural greenhouses with the necessary extensions and grading, which was referred to these committees on April 10 for consideration and report (Report, 1912, p. 582), and voted to recommend to the board: (1) That the present horticultural greenhouses be not removed at this time. (2) That the new greenhouses be constructed on the locations already approved by the board (Report, 1912, pp. 461, 505, 557). (3) That an appropriation of $50,000 be made for this purpose (Report, 1912, p. 489). Respectfully submitted,

W. L. ABBOTT,, MARY E. BUSEY., A. P. GROUT, FRED L,. HATCH, O. W. HOIT,

Joint Committee. The foregoing report from the Committees on Buildings and Grounds and Agriculture, of the date of April 20, 1912, was approved in full. DEGREES CONFERRED. The secretary presented for record the lists of students upon whom degrees were conferred at the Forty-first Annual Commencement held on June 12, 1912. The following is a summary of these degrees:

S U M M A R Y OF DEGREES.

Honorary Degrees—LL.D Degrees in the Graduate School— A.M M.S « C.E E.E M.E Ph.D Total Baccalaureate Degrees—. A.B., College of Literature and Arts A.B., College of Science B.S., College of Science B.S., College of Engineering B.S., College of Agriculture B.Mus., School of Music Total ...

2 46 39 3 1 4 20 113 164 44 20 195 68 2 493