Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918 [PAGE 243]

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1917]

U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S

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Dental and Medical buildings and their contents to bring the total amount up to three hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

PURCHASE OF DEAN GOSS'S HOUSE RECOMMENDED (17) A letter from Professor J. M. White recommending that the official residence now occupied by the President of the University be assigned to the use of the Military department; and that, if the President is willing, the house of Dean W. F. M. Goss, located on the south side of Nevada street between Mathews avenue and Goodwin avenue, be purchased and assigned to the President for his use. This recommendation is made with the understanding that the University should purchase the next lot west of Dean Goss's, 73 feet in width, and the second lot west, 35 feet in width, belonging to Professor Morgan Brooks, and that these be added to the Goss property as a yard or garden. This arrangement would secure for the University a frontage of 180 feet on Nevada street, and a lot which might properly be used in the future for the erection of a Women's Residence Hall.

The Executive Comrnittee recommended to the Board that this arrangement be made if possible. The other members present concurred in the recommendation.

PURCHASE OF T R I N I T Y CHURCH (18) A recommendation from Professor W. C. Bagley, approved by his colleagues in the department of education and by Dean Babcock, that the department of education be moved from its quarters in University Hall and Lincoln Hall to the neighborhood of the new School of Education building at the corner of Springfield and Mathews avenues; that the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church at the corner of Springfield and Mathews avenues be purchased and assigned, together with the frame building owned by the University and situated east of the Education Building, to the uses of the department of education. Professor Bagley thinks the changes would not be very expensive, and that the church Could be purchased as it stands for thirty thousand dollars. This would release two large rooms on the first floor of University Hall, a work room and store room in the basement of University Hall, a large room on the third floor of University Hall, and the use of some additional class rooms in University Hall and Lincoln Hall at certain h o u r s ; also one conference room on the first floor of Lincoln Hall.

No action was taken in this matter.

SITE FOR MCKINLEY HOSPITAL (19) A letter from Professor White submitting certain possible locations for the University Infirmary. His final recommendation is that the infirmary be located in the center of the north half of the present athletic field and that arrangements be made to transfer the baseball diamond and football gridiron to the new athletic field west of the University campus next to the Illinois Central Railroad. H e thinks this arrangement Could be