Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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580 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [October i, Income Received from room rent Received from cafeteria and lunch room Received from cigar stand Miscellaneous Expenses Rent—July,and August Heat, light, water and power Gas (paid in Sept. 1919) Salaries and wages Food Laundry Repairs Office Expense Operating expense and miscellaneous.... Profit $ 501.87 5,339.42 94.80 269.69 833.32 219.50 70.16 2,015.77 3,407.43 70.88 175.92 48.29 54.22 $7,205.7* $6,895.49 $310.29 $7,205.78 This report was received for record. H ORTIC U LT U R E © UIL DING (33) A letter from Dean Davenport: October 2, 1919 Acting President David Kinley , University of Illinois M Y DEAR M R . PRESIDENT: At the risk of seeming importunate, I am writing to express the earnest hope that nothing will prevent the beginning of the Horticultural building this fall. I understand that the funds are appropriated and the detailed plans are finished except for the heating plant, and I am wondering if the two contracts cannot be let separately so that the body of the building may be begun early and the foundation put in while the weather is good. I know you will understand and appreciate my position in this matter. I t is now about a dozen years since we began to transfer the Horticultural interests from their old campus location. .We have even had funds for cold storage installation lying idle since 1910 because we were "on the move,", and the result has been that our cold storage investigations have been suspended at the very time when most needed. All this has been natural, but it is difficult to understand by those whose interest are most directly affected, and that is why I am especially anxious that no further delay may occur than is absolutely necessary. Very truly yours, EUGENE DAVENPORT In view of the restudy of the campus plan, no action was taken. SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIP IN PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY (34) A letter from Professor G. D. Beal, offering a scholarship in Pharmaceutical Chemistry: October 2, 1919 President David Kinley, University of Illinois M Y DEAR PRESIDENT KINLEY: I have been granted a stipend of $240.00 by the American Pharmaceutical Association for use in the promotion of pharmaceutical research. I believe that the best use which I can make of this grant is to donate it to the University of Illinois for use in the payment of a scholarship stipend to Mr. Vernon L. Harnack. Mr.
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