Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 293]

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1919]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PROFESSOR R U S K ' S SALARY

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(35) A recommendation from the College of Agriculture that the salary of H. P. Rusk, Professor of Beef Cattle Husbandry, be advanced to five thousand dollars a year from May 1, 1919.

This matter was referred to the President of the University with power to act.

A D D I T I O N TO LAW FACULTY (36) A request from the Dean of the College of Law for authority to nominate a successor to Professor Carpenter, who resigned last year. We had hoped to carry the work without filling the position occupied by Professor Carpenter, but Dean Ballantine is quite insistent that this is impracticable, unless we are willing to see a material reduction in the standards of the College of Law.

This matter was referred to the President of the University with power to act.

P R O P E R T Y IN CHICAGO (37) A report from the Comptroller on the purchase of certain lots in the city of Chicago. January 23, 1919 President Edmund J. James

M Y DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES:

I beg to submit the following report on the purchase of lots in the city of Chicago. In the Board Minutes of July 17, 1918, page 29, the Executive Committee was given power to close a transaction involving the condemnation of certain property in the block bordered by South Wood, South Hermitage, Flournoy, and West Polk Streets. At the direction of the Executive Committee, I have issued warrants as stated below, for the purchase of the following described properties: 1. From Samuel B. Panama and Rose Panama, his wife, and William J. Foster, a bachelor. The north ten (10) feet of Lot Five (5) and the south fifteen (15) feet of Lot Six (6) in the Re-Subdivision of the West half of Block Five (5) in the Assessor's Division of the East half of the Southeast quarter, Section Eighteen (18) Township Thirty-nine (39) North, Range Fourteen (14) East of the Third Principal Meridian. Located at 727-729 South Wood Street, containing a frontage of 25 feet on the east side of Wood Street, between Flournoy Street and West Polk Street, and a depth of 123.79 feet, bounded on the north by our property at 721-725 South Wood Street, Tract No. 104; and on the south by our property at 1756-1758 West Polk Street, Tract No. 106. (See Report of the Comptroller 1918, page 92.) Purchase price Eighteen Hundred ($1800) Dollars. Taxes for the year 1918 are payable by the grantor.