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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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4®8 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [Ju»e 10, June 6,1919 Mr. Robert F. Cart, President, Board of Trustees DEAR SIR: Your special committee, appointed to considerthe request of the City Council of Urbana that the University make certain changes in the curb line of Green Street at its intersection with Mathews Avenue, recommends that the City of Urbana be given permission, M its own expense, to make the changes requested whenever it makes corresponding changes in the curb line of Green Street on the east side of Matthews Avenue. Your committee bases the above recommendation on the information that that ^portion of Green Street whose curb it is proposed to change was not a part of the origii\al;University campus and therefore is not University property. Very truly yours, W. L. ABBOTT CAIRO A. TRIMBLE MRS. MARY E. BUSEY This report was approved and adopted. SALE OF SMITH FARM NEAR CHAMPAIGN Oil) A letter from the Comptroller, relating to the sale of the Smith farm southwest of Champaign. June 13,1919 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois M Y DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES: 1 beg to advise you that the sale of the Smith farm southwest of Champaign has been completed with Mr. John T. Smith, in accordance with my letter of June 3. The full amount of $32,000 was paid over by Mr. Smith on June 10, and a warranty deed signed by the President and Secretary of the Board, together with complete abstract and existing lease assigned to him, were delivered to him. In accordance with the action of the Board of Trustees, I have paid Mr. Charles M. Stahl a commission of $160, being $2.00 per acre for his services in connection with this sale. Cordially yours, LLOYD MQREY Tbis report was received for record. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY*UNION IN EUROPE (12) A request from the American University Union in Europe for further support. ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, April 10, 1919 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois DEAR SIR: Mr. Henry B. Thompson, Treasurer of the American University Union in Europe, writes me that he has asked you for the same financial cooperation in the way of a special subscription to the Union that you very generously gave last year. In a letter from him bearing date March 12th, he informed me that as yet he had received nothing from your University. You have doubtless received a copy of the pamphlet descriptive,of the work of the Union during the past year and of the plans for the remainder of the present year. I need not suggest that during the period of demobilization the work that the Union is doing is most important. The Club House is constantly crowded and all connected therewith are working to the limit. ^ Mr. Thompson advises me that, in the judgment of the Finance Committee of the Union, <the West .'this year should assume the responsibility of raising, through its universities that belong to the Union, $4,000 by special subscription, $1,000 less than was contributed by them last year. He asks me, as a Trustee of the Union, to secure this amqurit. The University of Michigan is still supporting at the Union a special representative^ Professor Charles B, Yibbert, which means a yearly expense to the University of
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