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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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218 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [January - ^/ getting this matter started right and could you not at that time have prepared for us draft of bill to be recommended to the Legislature? For such a proposed bill I feel confident that our Committee can get support from every agricultural county in the State and also from the agricultural press of the State. Wishing you the compliments of the Season, I am, Very truly yours, D. M. CAMPBELL It was the opinion of the Executive Committee that the Trustees of the University would be perfectly willing to take over the administration and development of a veterinary college, if the General Assembly would authorize and instruct them to do so, and would also provide the necessary funds for the organization and maintenance of such a college. HOUSING OF S. A. T . C. AND S. M . A. (18) A report from Professor White as to the barracks of the S. A. T. C. and the S. M.A. \<\\0\ January 6,1918 President E. J. James, 355 Administration Building DEAR SIR: In order to provide barracks for housing the members of the S A T C, the University rented sixty-four (64) houses, which, on the. basis of-500 cubic ft. or,,45sq. ft. per man, would house 3315 men, but to fill them to this capacity required theaddition of a large amount of plumbing, and in many cases additional lighting in the rooms reserved for supervised study. Filling the houses to this capacity overtaxed the water heaters, and in many cases the service mains to the houses. Larger service mains were, put in for twelve (12) houses; hot water heaters were installed in eleven (11); and hot water'tanks in. eighteen (18); and work had been begun on several others. Besides the hot water tanks, 63 plumbing fixtures were actually installed, and we have on hand $6500.00 worth of other fixtures which we had intended to install. As soon as the floor in the Armory was completed, nearly half of the men were' transferred there and the building was continued as a barracks until the demobilization of the unit, with between 1400 and 1500 men housed there. This made'impossible for us to vacate ten houses at a time for reconstruction work, and to distribute the men through the remaining houses so that the plumbing facilities were reasonably adequate. "* It was possible to cancel the leases on some of the vacant houses soon after we received notice of the demobilization of the unit. Fourteen (14) houses were giVerr up November 30th; four (4) October 31st; eleven (11) during December; and "the : balance on December 31st. The total rents paid were ,. ... $21,994.06 The general repairs and installation of fixtures were 11,316.86 Estimated replacements.. •. : 8,699.74 $42,010.66
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