Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1916 [PAGE 890]

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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS.

[Feb. 8,

This land is bounded on the west by First Street, on the north by Armory Avenue, and on the east by Fourth Street. Miss Sherfy states that various rumors about the possible utilization of these lots by the University make it difficult to sell the lots.

No action was taken,in this matter.

ORDERS FOR BOOKS FOR T H E LIBRARY.

(18) A request from Mr. P. L. Windsor, Director of the University Library, for authority to place orders immediately for the purchase of books for the University Library to be delivered after July 1, 1916, at a cost of not more than sixteen thousand dollars, the amount to be charged against the book appropriation for the fiscal year 1916-17, and that similar authority be given for the purchase of books for the Library of the College of Medicine at a cost of not more than one thousand dollars, this amount to be charged against the medical appropriation for the fiscal year 1916-17. This is a request similar to one approved by the board during 1914 and also in 1915. It is necessary x to give these orders now if we hope to have the books on hand for use next year.

On motion of Mrs. Evans, this request was granted. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Carr, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Small, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Trevett, Mr. Ward.

B U I L D I N G PROGRAM A N D POLICY.

(19) A statement calling attention to the fact that if the proposed changes in the building for the School of Education should be carried out, it would mean that the board would spend much more in the construction of this building than it had been planning to do, and that inasmuch as our funds are strictly limited this would mean that certain very necessary additional building schemes would have to be postponed. It is very desirable, indeed necessary, that the Natural History Building be completed at the earliest possible date so as to provide proper accommodations for the Department of Botany and the other departments in the building which are steadily increasing. It is also necessary to make certain important changes in the engineering plant amounting altogether to upwards of one hundred thousand dollars, and it is difficult to see where these funds are coming from if we undertake to expend such a large additional sum on the School of Education during the present biennium or the next biennium. The pressing items in the College of Engineering Building budget a r e : (a) Reconstruction and rearrangement of the equipment of the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory at an estimated cost of $30,000. (b) A temporary building for an Industrial Museum. We are likely to get some very important gifts for our Industrial Museum during the present year and the coming year in addition to those we have already received and for which we must provide some housing. It will cost $10,000 or more to meet this need. (c) The completion of the Transportation Building at an estimated cost of $33,000. (d) An extension of the Mining Engineering Laboratory by the construction of an additional wing at an estimated cost of $15,000. ' The pressure for additional space in our Department of Architecture is very great and this can only be satisfied by making the additions suggested above so as to take care of the Mechanical Engineering and other departments by certain comprehensive readjustments of space.

No action was taken in this matter.

R E P A I R S ON P H A R M A C Y BUILDINGS.

(20) A recommendation that the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated for the necessary repairs to the buildings recently purchased at the corner of South Wood and Flournoy Streets in Chicago, to make them available for use by the School of Pharmacy.

' On motion of Mrs. Evans, this appropriation was made. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Carr, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Small, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Trevett, Mr. Ward.

DOCUMENTS' P E R T A I N I N G TO T H E P H A R M A C Y LOTS.

(21) A list of documents filed with the Secretary of the board pertaining to the lots recently purchased in Chicago at the corner of South Wood and Flournoy Streets: "List of Documents pertaining to Lots in Chicago Purchased for School of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, December, 1915. P 1—DEED : Adam Prehler to the Board of Trustees of the University of Till nois, for lots 9, 10", and 11 in Carpenter's resubdivision of the west half of block 5 in Hadduck's subdivision into blocks 4, 5, and 17 of that part of the east half of the southeast quarter of section 18, township 39 north, range 14 east of the Third Principal Meridian set off to said Hadduck in partition of said tract by order of Superior Court of Chicago, July 7, 1859, in Cook County, Illinois.—Dated December 27, 1915. No. 5778849; book 13716; page 169. P 2—WARRANTY DEED: Chicago Title and Trust Company, as receiver of Chicago Hoemopathic Hospital, to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, for lots 12, 13, and the south one and three-twelfths feet of lot 14 in the resubdi-