Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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318 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 12, COMMISSION FOR SALE O F CHAMPAIGN FARM (10) A request from Mr. Charles M. Stahl, real estate agent of Champaign, that the Smith farm near the Country Club, owned by the University, be put into his hands for sale at the price of four hundred dollars an acre. He requests a larger commission than was paid in the case of the other farms because of the small size of this particular farm. The President of the University was authorized to put the farm in Mr. Stahl's hands for a sale at a price of $400.00 an acre, and to pay, as in the case of the other farms, a commission of two dollars an acre. APPLICATION FOR R. O . T . C . (11) A statement that it is desirable to determine very soon what units of the R. O. T. C. should be established at the University of Illinois. It will be necessary for us to ask the Government to establish such units as we desire. I have felt that we ought not to establish any units of which we are not reasonably sure of making a success. The President of the University was authorized to request that the Federal Government establish such military units of the R. O. T. C. at the University of Illinois as in his judgment may be desirable and feasible. R E S I G N A T I O N O F P R O F E S S O R E. C . S C H M I D T (12) Professor Edward C. Schmidt, who has been absent from the University during the past year on leave for military service, has resigned his professorship of railway engineering to take effect immediately. The President of the University was authorized to accept this resignation, with an expression of regret on the part of the Board that Professor Schmidt is leaving us and an expression of appreciation of his excellent service rendered during the years in which he has been connected with the University. CLINICAL. LABORATORY (13) Certain preliminary plans for the clinical laboratory for the erection of which the trustees have asked the present legislature for the sum of $300,000.00. It is proposed to ask the Department of Public Welfare of the State of Illinois, of which Honorable Charles H. Thorne is Director, to assign a suitable site for this building on the plot which he is considering as a site for the new State hospitals, and that this building be located as near the land now owned by the University as possible. The President stated further that, after a conference with Mr. Thorne as to the possibility of cooperation between the University of Illinois and the Department of Public Welfare of the State of Illinois, Mr. Thorne made the suggestion which is printed^below.
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