Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914 [PAGE 593]

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1913]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OE TRUSTEES.

$3,000 00 2,400 00 2,600 00 $ 700 850 1,000 500 00 00 00 00

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, 6. Temperature control— Engineering Hall Natural History Building Chemical Laboratory 7. Vacuum c l e a n e r s Lincoln Hall Woman's Building Natural History Building Library

8,000 00

3,050 00 S. Men's Gymnasium 8,000 00 9. Added furniture for Woman's Building 1,000 00 10. Shower baths and partitions, Woman's Building, first and second floors 5,300 00 11. Changes in basement corridor, Woman's Building 700 00 12. Furniture and equipment, Woman's Building (Household Science lecture-room 1,560 00 13. Lignting facilities for Morrow Hall 185 00 14. Changing locks, a Lincoln Hall " 290 00 15. Metal bookcases, Lincoln Hall 4,830 00 16. Changes in Room 405, Lincoln Hall (N. E. corner room, fourth floor) 600 00 .17. Changes in office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.. 750 00 18. Changes in Room 318-320, University Hall (rooms occupied by Rhetoric Department 400 00 19. Changes in Room 410, University Hall (former lecture-room, economics) 625 00 20. Changes in Room 118, Agr. Building (N. W. corner room, first floor) 1,200 00 21. Changes in Room 455-6, Agr. Building . 110 00 22. Waterproofing basement, metal shops 250 00 23. Waterproofing basement, Transportation Building 500 00 The committee recommends that all of these improvements be authorized, except Nos. 1, 5, 16, and part of 18. The supervising architect was instructed to report further on Nos. 1 and 5, and No. 18 is recommended with the exception of an office which it was proposed to obtain by cutting off the end of a corridor.

On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, it was voted to concur in the foregoing recommendation, making an appropriation of forty thousand six hundred dollars ($40,600) for the general building improvements listed above, with the exception of the items noted by the committee, namely, the items numbered 1, 5, 16, and part of 18. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Montgomery.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STUDENTS' WELFARE: CONCERTS AUTHORIZED.

ORCHESTRAL

Mrs. Evans, as Chairman of the Committee on Students' Welfare, reported that the committee had considered the recommendation of tne president that an appropriation not to exceed five thousand ($5,000) be made for the support of orchestral concerts at the University, this recommendation having been referred to this committee at the meeting of June 25, 1913, with power to act (page 264); and that the committee had authorized the president of the University to arrange for a series of concerts as recommended, and to expend not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for this purpose. The foregoing report from the Committee on Students' Welfare was received for record.

MATTERS PRESENTED BY T H E PRESIDENT OF T H E UNIVERSITY.

President James presented the following matters for consideration:

APPROPRIATION FROM STUDENTS' HOSPITAL FURNITURE. FUND FOR PORCH

(1) A request from Mr. A. R. Warnock, Assistant Dean of Men, and Acting Chairman of the Committee on the Students' Hospital Association, for an appropriation of fifty dollars ($50) from the Students' Hospital fund for the purchase of porch furniture for the porch recently built adjoining the students' ward at Burnham Hospital.

On motion of Mr. Blair, this recommendation was approved. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs.