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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[April 12,

P A Y M E N T OF BILL OF MR. C. A. PLATT

The Secretary reported for record the action of the Executive Committee in conference on April 6, 1922, in ordering the payment of $3300 on account of the current bill of Mr. Charles A. Piatt, Architect, for services on the Agriculture building and the Campus Plan, the money to be charged to the Reserve and Contingent fund and to the appropriation for the Agriculture building proportionately. This report was received for record.

MATTERS P R E S E N T E D BY P R E S I D E N T K I N L E Y

The Board considered the following matters presented by the President of the University.

FOR PROFESSOR BEVIER A N D DEAN DAVENPORT (1) At the last meeting I presented the resignation of Eugene Davenport, Vice President of the University and Dean of the College of Agriculture, and of Charles Russ Richards, Dean of the College of Engineering and Director of its Experiment Station. These resignations lead me to recall to the mind of the Board the resignation of one other distinguished member of the faculty who has done great service to the University and the State, as well as to the cause of education in the line in which she was active. A year ago Professor Isabel Bevier left the University. By some oversight her departure was not made a matter of record in the minutes of the Board. The oversight was doubtless due to the fact that Miss Bevier's resignation had been presented in the preceding year and at my request kindly withdrawn for another year. I call attention to this matter now because Professor Isabel Bevier is one of the members of our faculty to whom we should do all the honor we can. She built up a great department in the University. She undoubtedly is the foremost woman in her field in the country. She left behind her a great department and sent out into the service of the country a number of young women who have done fine work in elevating life in the field of their education. It was my intention, if Miss Bevier had returned in the fall, as I fully expected, to see to it that the University honored her in some public way. Her absence during the winter has made this impossible. I trust that we may be able to do it yet on her return. The failure of my plan to give a public mark of our appreciation of Miss Bevier and her great work leads me to ask that this statement be put in the records of the Board in order that the lapse of time may not lead people to think that there is any failure of appreciation of Miss Bevier and her great work on the part of the University authorities, and because I cannot longer withhold my own expression of appreciation and testimony to her great character and work. In presenting the resignation of Dean Davenport at the last meeting of the Board, it was my intention to ask you to record him as Professor and Dean, Emeritus. By some clerical oversight this was omitted, and I ask now that this action be taken. I recommend further that Professor Bevier be entered in our official records in the same character; namely, Professor of Home Economics, Emeritus. EMERITUS RELATION

On motion of Mr. Blair, these recommendations were approved.

A C C I D E N T COMPENSATION (2) i. Last fall a boy by the name of Wendell Nuding was injured by one of our trucks on the athletic field. Professor White ordered first aid in this case and Judge Harker is of the opinion that the University should pay for this. I recommend that the sum of $1$ be appropriated from the Reserve and Contingent fund to pay the bill of the Champaign X-Ray Laboratory in this case, and further, that the sum of $50 be appropriated from the Reserve and Contingent fund to pay for the services of Dr. Schowengerdt in this same case. 1. I recommend that $44 be appropriated from the Reserve and Contingent fund in payment for the services of Dr. J. H. Finch for T. E. Campbell, in whose case an appropriation of $10 had already been made (page 103) for X-Ray examination.