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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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1918] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 157 The Commissioner of Fisheries has informed me of the peculiar good fortune of the Bureau of Fisheries has enjoyed in consequence of the generosity with which you devoted your architectural and engineering skill and experience to the design of this building. I have been particularly impressed with what he has told me of the gracious and modest manner in which your offer of free service was tendered, and of the wholly satisfactory, patient, and sympathetic manner in which you have endeavored to cooperate with the Bureau at all stages of the execution of the design. The plans themselves speak for the talent you have applied to the purpose and the success you have attained. I cannot refrain from exercising the privilege of writing you, not only to express my official appreciation of your great service to us—but also to tell you, inadequately indeed, of the feeling of admiration which such a patriotic act inspires. May I not say that those of us who labor in the public service, having always before us the hope of a reward in public approbation, at least, must derive new courage, new zeal, and a stronger faith in the value of the public service we are called upon to perform, when we have an example of men of high attainments giving freely their talents, their experience, and their time, asking no reward and driven by no other spur than a sense of personal responsibility for the nation's welfare. I have faith, a well founded faith, in the public service which the Biological Station at Fairport will render. The laboratory building, as the center of that station will always stand, I trust, as a symbol of the effective application of science to human welfare; it will also be to us and to others a continued reminder of the patriotic service which you rendered with exceptional modesty and yet, I ought to say, splendidly. Speaking for the Department, as well as for the Bureau of Fisheries, I extend to you my sincere thanks. Sincerely, WILLIAM C. REDFIELD Secretary These letters were received for record. DEGREES CONFERRED IN OCTOBER (5) A recommendation from the University Senate that the following degrees be conferred. THE GRADUATE SCHOOL Degree of Master of Arts In Education John Corwin Reeder, A. B., 1917 Clara Mabel Smith, A. B., 1917 Lewis Ward Williams, Ph. B., 1909, Hiram College In German Emma Bertha Butzow, A. B., 1914 Degree of Master of Science In Agronomy Frederick Charles Bauer, B. S., 1909 In Chemistry Otis Avery Barnes, B. S., 1916 Linton Millard Smith, B. S., ShurtlefF College, 1916
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