Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914
This is a reduced-resolution page image for fast online browsing.
EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:
92 UNIVERSITY OE ILLINOIS. F U R N I T U R E A N D E Q U I P M E N T FOR N E W E N G I N E E R I N G [July 13, BUILDING. (6) A recommendation that the Dean of the College of Engineering be authorized to purchase furniture and equipment for the buildings of the transportation group; the sums expended for the same to be charged to the appropriation for an engineering building and ground. The foregoing recommendations were approved. OPTIONS ON L A N D S O U T H E A S T OF T H E FORESTRY. (7) A commnuication from Professor J. C. Blair, head of the Department of Horticulture, enclosing an option for the purchase of 27.8 acres of land lying south and east of the Forestry, at a price of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per acre; accompanied by a request that the board secure an option for the purchase from the Busey heirs of 150 acres lying east of Lincoln Avenue and south of the road running south of the cemetery. This communication was referred to the Committee on Agriculture for consideration and report. APPOINTMENT OF A S S I S T A N T TO T H E S U P E R V I S I N G ARCHITECT. (8) A recommendation from Professor James M. White, Supervising Architect, that Mr. H. D. Oberdorfer be appointed assistant to the supervising architect for one year, beginning July 1, 1912, at a salary of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for the year; this salary to be charged to specific building and operating appropriations as may from time to time be found to be equitable. This recommendation was approved. REPAIRS. A request from the supervising architect for the approval of proposed repairs in the University buildings to the amount of $10,000. It was voted to appropriate ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for repairs in the University buildings proposed by the supervising architect, subject to the approval of the president of the University. COMPLETION OF T H I R D STORY OF W O M A N ' S BUILDING. (9) A communication from Professor James M. White, Supervising Architect, presenting revised plans for the completion of the third story of the addition to the Woman's Building (see pp. 2 and 40 above). It was voted to request the State Architect to prepare detailed plans for this work as soon as possible, basing on plans submitted by the supervising architect and approved by the president of the University; and, as soon as v the plans shall be completed, to call for bids thereon. At this point Mr. Hatch withdrew from the meeting. T H E S T A T E BOARD O F PRISON I N D U S T R I E S A N D U N I V E R S I T Y PRINTING. (10) A memorandum concerning a statement of the State Board of Prison Industries that they will not continue to approve releases on printing required by the University. Also, a statement from Dr. Eugene Davenport, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, that in his opinion the State Board of Prison Industries cannot satisfactorily do the work of printing the agricultural bulletins, and that it would be better to cease publishing these bulletins altogether than to send them out in such unsatisfactory form as we should have if the State Board of Prison Industries insists on printing them ;• for the reason that the whole value of these bulletins' often turns upon absolute accuracy in figures and the like, and it seems to be impossible to secure accuracy in work done by the State Board of Prison Industries. This memorandum was received for record.. REPORT OF FEES. The secretary presented the registrar's report of fees due from the students of the University at Urbana for the second semester of the year 1911-12, as follows:
| 
