Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918 [PAGE 672]

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[February 16,

west half of the block on which the new Education Building is located, and in addition one lot in the east half. On motion of Mr. Hoit, the Comptroller of the University was authorized and directed to purchase this lot. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Blair, Mr. Carr, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Taggart, Mr. Trimble, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Trevett, Mr. Ward.

SITE FOR M c K I N L E Y HOSPITAL—ADDITIONAL LAND

(18) The following statement: I have not found it possible to purchase lots 73 and 74 on Armory Avenue between Third Street and Arbor Street in the city of Champaign at what seemed to me to be a reasonable price (see page 634). Oil motion of Mr. Carr, the President of the University was authorized to institute proceedings for condemnation of these lots.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY UNION IN EUROPE

(19) The Board at its meeting September 11, 1917 (page 520), authorized me to signify to the Secretary of the American University Union in Europe that the University would become a member of the Union, the object of which is to furnish social facilities to the graduates of American Universities, connected with the military and naval forces in Europe.* This Union has been organized with a considerable number of American Universities as members. It is necessary now to raise the requisite funds to purchase and equip the building. The President of the University was authorized to ask the alumni of the University, in the name of the Board of Trustees, for subscriptions to this fund.

UNIVERSITY PAGEANT

(20) A report from Mr. William Chauncy Langdon, Director of the University Pageant. I may say that items mentioned in this report are in addition to the preparation for the pageant which the University is preparing to give in connection with the semi-centennial celebration of the University when peace returns. February 15, 1918 President Edmund / . James, University of Illinois

MY DEJAR PRESIDENT JAMES:

In reply to your request for a report of the work I am doing this year, I beg to say that thus far I have produced the following:

*The executive committee of the American University Union in Europe has rented for the period of the war the Royal Palace Hotel on the Place du Theatre Frangais. It is within a block of the Palais Royal station of the "Metropolitain"—the Paris Subway. 1 Arrangements have been made for serving meals, furnishing sleeping rooms, the establishment of a reading room, etc. The Union was opened October 20, 1917. The Committee has decided that an annual budget of at least $50,000 should be provided for it.