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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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M E T H O D O F A C C R E D I T I N G SCHOOLS (5) A report of progress on the report concerning the relationship between the University and the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the matter of accrediting schools. (See page 226, minutes of April 15, 1921).

This report was received for record.

REPRINTING UNIVERSITY STATUTES (6) A recommendation that an appropriation of $150 (or so much thereof as may be necessary) be made to reprint the University Statutes, incorporating, of course, actions of the Board down to date.

On motion of Mrs. Blake, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Noble; no, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Small, Mr. Trimble.

R E M O V A L OF HOUSES O N H A R V E Y STREET

(7) A recommendation that the Superintendent of Business Operations be authorized to sell for removal three houses on the University lots on Harvey Street, in Urbana, to make space for the storage of coal.

On motion of Dr. Noble this recommendation was approved.

T H E CAHOKIA M O U N D S (8) In East St. Louis are several mounds which authorities think are relics of prehistoric times, probably enclosing many articles which would throw light on the life of the Indian population of Illinois. The mounds are private property. The owners have given permission to Mr. Warren K. Moorehead of Andover, Massachusetts, a distinguished archaeologist, to open several of them in order to discover the general character of the relics they contain. It is the opinion of people in this part of the country with whom I have talked on the subject that the State of Illinois is entitled to the first opportunity to investigate these mounds and to secure their contents, or such part of them as may seem desirable, for its own State institutions. Dr. Moorehead assents to this view, altho he himself has raised some money to prosecute the search. I have consulted with Dr. Crook of the State Museum and with several of our own people on the matter, with the result that Dr. Moorehead agrees, if the University will assist in the exploration, to send all his discoveries to the State Museum at Springfield until his work is finished. He agrees that, after the relics are all in the State Museum, Dr. Crook, he, and I shall have a conference to assign to the State Museum and to the University Museum whatever we agree is their fair share of the relics and to assign to Dr. Moorehead such things as would make a small typical collection for his museum at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. It seems to me that there is a public duty in exploring these mounds and in doing what we can to prevent the relics, if any, from going out of the State, excepting, of course, so far as there are duplicates not wanted in the State Museum or our own. I therefore recommend that an appropriation of $1500 (or so much thereof as may be necessary) be made as the University's share in carrying on this work, the money to come from the Reserve and Contingent fund.

On motion of Mr. Noble, this recommendation was approved. The appropriation was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr, Abbott, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Noble; no, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Small, Mr. Trimble.