Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914 [PAGE 756]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[ June 9,

The appropriation was made by the following vote: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker. On the recommendation of President James and on motion of Mrs. Henrotin, the plans for the Zoological Laboratory were approved, and the supervising architect was authorized to proceed with the construction of the laboratory and pond and insectary on the Barnes property at an estimated cost of forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000). The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Mr. Trevett, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker.

RELEASE OF MINOR BUILDINGS,

Professor White presented a letter from Mr. James B. Dibelka, State Architect, under date of November 3, 1913, and requested that the following paragraph be printed in the minutes: "Replying to your favor of the 1st, I am not including the library nor the boiler-house, nor any other minor work." Professor White stated that he had interpreted this to release the plans for the smaller buildings, such as the laboratories for the Departments of Botany and Zoology and others of about the same cost.

PROPOSED SALE OF LAND.

Mr. Trevett stated that he had been asked whether the University would sell the north eighty acres of the Busey quarter-section recently purchased by the University. Mr. Trevett moved that the Finance Committee be authorized to sell the eighty acres in question for one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000). The motion was rejected by the following vote: Ayes, none; noes, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore, Miss Watson; not voting, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Trevett; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Meeker. The board took a recess at 12:.30 P.M. for luncheon.

AFTERNOON SESSION. When the board re-convened at 1:45 P.M., the same members were present as during the morning session.

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

The board proceeded to the consideration of the following matters presented by President James: (1) A statement concerning the graduation of Mr. Foster North, a former student of the class of 1885 who was dismissed from the University after he had completed thirty-seven credits for refusal to attend chapel. On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, it was voted that the board would approve a recommendation to confer the degree of B.S. on Mr. Foster North, as of the class of 1885.

S I T E A S S I G N E D FOR GREGORY M E M O R I A L B U I L D I N G .

(2) The following letter from Dr. Thomas J. Burrill: Edmund J. James* President, University of Illinois. DEAR SIR: As you know, the Memorial Committee of the Alumni Association has agreed to try to raise $150,000 for a Gregory Memorial Building and Art Collection and has started activities upon the understanding that the trustees will furnish a site on the campus for such building.