Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914
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70 UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS. [July 5, TABLE SHOWING COST OF UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAND BETWEEN MATHEWS AND GOODWIN AVENUES. EstiEstiEstima- mated mated ted total netcost netcost land of land net cost ofper per of land. front square foot. foot. ReferNominal Nominal ence Location property by frontdepth of numstreet number. age of of l o t ber. feet. lot—feet. Total price paid. Estimated value of buildings. 1 2 3 4 5 7. 501 505 507 No S. Goodwin S. Goodwin S. Goodwin frontage.:.... 66 132 100 65 132 82 126 132 $ 4,500 00 $2,800 00 $1,700 00 $25 75 $0,195 28 79 .218 132 5,000 00 1,200 00 3,800 00 19 00 132 2,600 00 .144 700 00 1.900 00 33 85 132 6,000-00 3,800 00 2,200 00 .256 165 1,800 00 None 1,800 00 N o n e . . .083 132 7,000 00 3,600 00 3,400 00 41 46 .289 264 10,800 00 2,800 00 8,000 00 63 49 .240 RESIGNATION OF ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RICKARDS. (12) The resignation of Mr. Burt R. Rickards, Associate Professor of Municipal and Sanitary Dairying in the College of Agriculture and Assistant Chief in Municipal and Sanitary Dairying in the Agricultural Experiment Station, to become effective August 1, 1912. It was voted to accept the resignation of Professor Rickards. NEW PROFESSORSHIPS IN THE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE. (13) A recommendation from Dr. Eugene Davenport, Dean of the College of Agriculture, that the following new professorships be created in the College of Agriculture: (1) A professorship in landscape gardening or landscape a r t ; (2) A professorship in animal pathology; (3) A professorship in dairy husbandry; also an associateship and an instructorship in the Department of Landscape' Art. This recommendation was approved. SETTLEMENT WITH COLLEGE OF P H Y S I C I A N S A N D SURGEONS. (14) A recommendation that the Finance Committee be authorized to settle up the outstanding accounts between the University of Illinois and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, and turn over to the College any balance which may be due under the contract between the University and the College of Physicians and Surgeons upon the certificate of the University Counsel and the Comptroller that all accounts are in order and that adequate bonds have been given to protect the University against any possible claims growing out of its relations with the College of Physicians and Surgeons. This recommendation was approved. REAPPROPRIATION OF BALANCES. (15.) A recommendation that the balances to the credit of the different departments of the University on June 30, 1912, be reappropriated for the academic year 1912-18 to the purposes of the respective departments, subject to the approval of the President of the University. This recommendation was approved. COMMISSIONS ON J E W I S H - A M E R I C A N A N D G E R M A N - A M E R I C A N AND CULTURE. HISTORY (16) A recommendation that the President of the University be authorized to appoint a commission upon Jewish-American History and Culture; the object of this commission, which may consist of people not otherwise connected with the University as well as members of the staff of the University, to be to devise ways and means of increasing the collections of the University bearing upon the subject of Jewish-American History and Culture, and to promote in general the University and public interest in this subject. (17,) A recommendation that the President of the University be authorized to appoint a commission upon German-American History and Culture; the character and purpose of this commission to be similar to that of the commission on Jewish-American History and Culture. The foregoing recommendations were approved.
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