Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1922 [PAGE 439]

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1921]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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P O R T R A I T OF R E G E N T PEABODY (3) A recommendation that the sum of $2,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated from general funds to secure an oil portrait of Regent Selim Hobart Peabody, for the University; and a request for authority to arrange for the publication of a biography of Dr. Peabody.

On motion of Mrs. Evans, the President of the University was authorized to procure a suitable portrait of Dr. Peabody, at a cost of not more than $2500, and to arrange for the publication of a biography of Dr. Peabody. The appropriation for the portrait was made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Herbert; no, none; absent, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Noble, Mr. Small, Mr. Trimble.

G I F T OF AN EDITION OF DANTE (4) A report that, through the agency of Mr. Luigi Carnovale, the Italians of the United States have presented to the University of Illinois a copy of Hoepli's edition of heliochrome reproduction of a manuscript of Dante's Divine Comedy, recently issued in Milan. I have accepted this under authority given me by the Board and report it that it may be recorded. I recommend that the Board also authorize me to express its thanks.

On motion of Mr. Blair, the President of the University was requested to express the thanks of the Board to the Italians of the United States. During the presentation of item No. 4, Mr. Hoit and Dr. Noble took their places with the Board.

HIGHWAY NEAR EXPERIMENTAL. T R A C T (5) A recommendation from the Department of Agronomy that the Board deny a request from the Highway Commissioner of Jasper County for a strip of land on the south side of the experimental tract near Newton, Illinois.

On motion of Mr. Hoit, this matter was referred to the President of the University with power to act.

REPORT ON THE PARR COKING PROCESS The following report: At the meeting of July 26, 1920, there was submitted to your Board a proposed agreement concerning the manufacture of coke from bituminous coal under the so-called Parr Coal Coking Process. The matter was referred to the President of the Board and the President of the University with power to act (see page 19). At the meeting of September 28, 1920, the matter was again brought to the attention of the Board with certain objections to the proposed cantract. The matter was then turned over to a committee consisting of Mr. Ward, Mr. Trimble, Mr. Abbott, President Carr, and the President of the University (see page 72). At the meeting of November 19, 1920, your committee recommended that action previously taken by the Board on August 16, 1918 (see page 152), authorizing the Comptroller to enter into a contract, be rescinded. The action was rescinded, and the matter was referred to the President of the Board and the President of the University for further inquiry (see page 112). On February 18, 1921, your committee, the President of the Board and the President of the University, recommended that the President of the Board be authorized to appoint a commission of three prominent business men to give the Board an opinion on the claims of Messrs. E. B. Fulks and A. L. Kuehns to an in(6)