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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914
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602 UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS. [July 23, BIDS. Morava Construction Company, of Chicago. $31,920 00 Kenwood Bridge Company, of Chicago 34,750 00 Hansell-Elcock Company, of Chicago 33,500 00 (These bids are all based on making the two end bays 30 feet each, and all in accordance with the original framing plans by Mr. J. M. Heuser, Engineer, with certain exceptions indicated in the bids. The State Architect is willing that this work go on under the immediate supervision of the supervising architect, owing" to the fact that all plans, etc., were drawn by the preceding State Architect. RECOMMENDATION. That the offer made by the Morava Construction Company for completing the steel work of the end bays of the Armory, being the low bid, be accepted, and that the officers of the board be authorized to enter into a contract with the Morava Construction Company on the basis of this bid of thirty-one thousand nine hundred twenty dollars ($31,920). On motion of Mrs. Evans, the foregoing recommendation was approved. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs.- Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Meeker. I M P R O V E M E N T S IN M. E. SHOPS, APPROPRIATION ASKED. (8) A request from Professor James M. White, Supervising Architect, for an appropriation of three thousand dollars ($3,000) for improvements in the shops of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. No action was taken with reference to this matter. E X T E N S I O N OF T I M E ON T H E F L O R I C U L T U R A L A N D P L A N T BUILDINGS. BREEDING (9) A request from Messrs. English Brothers, Contractors, of Champaign, for an extension of time for the completion of their contract for the erection of the floriculture and plant breeding buildings from June 28, 1913, to September 1, 1913 ; with a recommendation from Professor J. M. White, Supervising Architect, that this request be granted. On motion of Mr. Montgomery, it was voted to grant the request as recommended. SYSTEM OF F R E S H M A N A D V I S E R S ; APPROPRIATIONS. (10) The following request from Dr. K. C. Babcock, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, for an appropriation of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) to carry out a system of freshman advisers; accompanied by the recommendation that the plan be tried as an experiment for the coming year: President details of the system of advisers which we discussed last week are set forth in the following statement. The plan has been discussed, also with Dean Clark and with Assistant Dean Warnock. Advisers for Freshmen in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 1. The system proposed is confined to the men of the freshman class for the present. 2. It is in the nature of a supplement to the admirable work now carried on by the dean of men and to the formal relations necessarily arising from supervision of study lists, etc., which will be continued. 3. It contemplates the assignment of each male freshman to some member of the faculty, for the purpose of establishing helpful, friendly, inspiring relations between them. 4. The selection of the members of the faculty will have to be made with extreme care to secure those who are at once mature, sympathetic, scholarly men, who can understand the student point of view, and who are willing to give some time and thought to bettering the present relations between the students and t h e faculty of the University. Not more than ten or twelve freshmen should be assigned to each adviser. 5. The method of assignment is as important to the success of the plan as is the selection of the advisers. It is hoped to reduce the number of assignments made in a purely arbitrary, perfunctory, or merely official manner by giving large consideration wherever possible to a. Suggestions of secondary school teachers who know members of the faculty as well as the freshmen, especially teachers who are alumni of the University. MY DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES : In compliance with your request some of the E. J. Jamess University of Illinois. URBAN A,. I I I . , July 9, 1913.
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