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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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Battery F, to stable the horses, and to provide headquarters for the battery, if this building will be accepted by the Military Department of the State. On motion of Mr. Hoit, the President of the University was authorized to utilize the present Horticulture Building for such purposes" if satisfactory arrangements can be made for the interests now housed in it.

CHANGES IN D E N T A L BUILDING.

(27) The following statement: Owing to the unexpected increase in attendance in the freshman classes of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, it will be necessary to make some additional provision for the Department of Anatomy. It is recommended that a suitable freight elevator be constructed in the Dental Building, and that a room for the storage of the cadavers be constructed in the basement of the building, and that some additional improvements be made in the dissecting room. On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, this recommendation was approved and the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, was assigned for this purpose from the sum appropriated for the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry.

DEPOSIT OF F R E I G H T LOCOMOTIVE.

(28) The following letter from Dean W. F. M. Goss in regard to the deposit of a locomotive' by the ^Illinois Central Railroad Company: December 13, 1915. President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois. Park, Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and Prof. Edward C. Schmidt of our Department of Railway Engineering, there has been deposited with the University of Illinois by the Illinois Central Railroad Company for such use as the University may care to make of it, a Mogul freight locomotive designated in the records of the railroad company as of the 401 class. The engine was selected from among those in service on the road, has since been put through their shops in order that it might reach our laboratory in first-class condition, and has now been received at the laboratory. It is our purpose to have this locomotive serve in the routine work of the laboratory during intervals when for various reasons a modern engine may not be immediately available. You will, I know, appreciate the fine spirit of cooperation which has been shown by Mr. Park in this matter. Respectfully submitted, . W. F. M. Goss. On motion of Mr. Carr, this was accepted and the thanks of the hoard were extended to Prof.^Goss and Prof. Schmidt for their successful negotiations in this matter, and to Mr. W. L. Park, Vice President of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and the other officials of the Illinois Central, for their action in this matter.

C O M M I T T E E ON E X T E N S I O N OF T H E C O L L E G E OF ENGINEERING. MY DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES : As a result of conferences between Mr. W. L.

(29) A recommendation that the President of the University be authorized to appoint a committee to work out a general plan for the plant extension of the College of Engineering. On motion of Mrs. Evans, this recommendation was concurred in.

COMMISSION ON CAMPUS P L A N S .

(30) The following statement: It seems very desirable that the board should make provision for a more systematic and thoro consideration of the Campus plans of the University. The board authorized the creation of a commission some time ago, of which Mr. Burnham was Chairman, and Messrs. Blackall, Zimmerman, and White were the other members. Mr. Burnham has since died, and Mr. Zimmerman has given place to Mr. Dibelka, the State Architect. The commission, therefore, has practically come to an end. There are three general plans which may be followed in a comprehensive policy relating to this matter: 1. A commission of eminent architects may be appointed to consider such plans as may be referred to them by the Supervising Architect, or the State Architect, Or others who might be interested, similar to the Burnham commission mentioned above. 2. A firm of competent architects may be employed to work out such plans, to be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their consideration. 3. A competition may be instituted, open to the architects of the world, for tile most satisfactory plan. All these plans have been followed by one or another of our American universities. The most successful one of the third type was that inaugurated by the University of California at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sum was provided by a gift of Mrs. Hearst. I think it is very desirable that the board should give early attention to this important matter. We must go ahead with our building. We cannot otherwise take care of the students who come to the University. On the other hand, there is at present no well defined plan which has been approved by the Board of Trustees for