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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[September 21,

been cancelled on account of his relatively poor work in this institution, but the Council, at its meeting of July 11, voted that the rule in regard to such concellation of credits should be suspended in this case. Mr. Martin thus becomes entitled to his degree, in accordance with the above recommendation.

This recommendation was concurred in unanimously.

MEMORIAL TABLET FOR ANNA MARGARETHE LANGE JAMES

(7) A request for authority to erect a bronze tablet in memory of his wife, Anna Margarethe Lange, on the south wall of the lobby to the Auditorium, either to the right or the left of the middle entrance to the hall. It would be a tablet five or six feet in length and three to four feet wide, either in a vertical position or a horizontal position. In the latter case the figure would be to the left of the inscription. Mr. Lorado Taft has promised to supervise the making of the tablet so that the artistic quality would be assured. The following legend would be placed on the tablet: In Memory of ANNA MARGARETHE LANGE wife of EDMUND JANES JAMES Fourth president of the University of Illinois this tablet has been erected ^ by Her Husband (Place here a symbolic figure depicting Ruth gleaning in the wheat fields and looking with longing eyes toward her own home.) (Below the figure the following inscription:) Her life was a new version of an ancient story. She, too, like Ruth of old, left home and kindred and journeyed into a far country. She made this people her people and this country her country, and though, standing amid the alien corn, she sometimes paused to gaze with tear-filled eyes and longing heart to her old home beyond the seas, it was only to gather new strength for the tasks before her. She, too, came to honor in the heart of her husband, in the love of her children, in the esteem of her countless friends. A gracious spirit, she moved through life a joyous, strong, and helpful presence, a source of power and inspiration to all who knew her, giving joy to the joyful, strength to the weak, and comfort to the sorrowing; a loving and devoted daughter of her adopted country, the land in which her children and her children's children will rise up and call her blessed.

On motion of Mr. Ward, it was voted, unanimously, that the Board of Trustees approve the erection of such a tablet, and that the matter be referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds with power to act.