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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS

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The University of Illinois Golf Club was established by authority of the Board of Trustees in 1908. At that time the membership was quite small, but in recent years the growth has been rapid. The increase since 1917 has been approximately 700 per cent as shown by the following table: Spring 1917 Membership 69 Spring 1920 Membership 130 Spring 1922 Membership 258 Spring 1923 Membership 459 This increase in players has produced a crowded condition on the course which is dangerous. The normal capacity of the links is less than 50 players. There are frequently as many as 125 on the course at one time, and a great many more do not attempt to play because of the dangerous condition. There has been vigorous complaint from students during the recent years because of the limited facilities and risk of bodily injury. The additional space would allow us to give the requisite facilities for the present membership and the increased numbers which are likely to enroll each succeeding year as the game is undoubtedly growing in popularity and is a form of recreation not only indulged in by the average student, but gives m e n and women who do not or cannot participate in any other athletic activity, an indispensable form of exercise. I trust that this proposition m a y meet with your favor. Respectfully yours, Arthur Beresford President, University of Illinois Golf Club M r . Beresford, President of the Golf Club, M r . H . B. Ingalls, Treasurer, Director G. A. Huff, Dean H . W . Mumford, and Professor J. M . White, w h o were present, discussed this matter from various points of view. N o action was taken. At this point, M r . Blair withdrew. LOCATION OF AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS (20) Letters from Dean Mumford and Professor White concerning the location of the new Agricultural buildings. M a y 1, 1923 President David Kinky, University of Illinois Dear President Kjnley: I wish to make the following tentative suggestions concerning the location of the Agricultural buildings provided for in the biennium budget: The Beef Cattle Feeding Plant and Animal Husbandry Storage; The location of these buildings should be immediately west of the present purebred section, adjoining the silo group on the south. This location seems to be established fairly well by reason of the location of the silos, experimental scale house, and the section already erected. Swine Plant: The location of this plant presents a rather difficult problem. It would appear that there might be some advantage in maintaining the present axis established by the round dairy barns, the horse barns, the beef cattle barns and the sheep barn. This would necessitate the building of a Swine Plant immediately west and a little to the south of the house occupied by M r . Hampton. This location has the highest elevation on the Lindsay tract. However, the proximity of this site to St. Mary's Cemetery makes it open to objection from the public. In order to avoid criticism from this source, it is probable that the most feasible location would be in the southeast one-fourth of the north forty of the Lindsay plot. If this general location is selected, the main buildings probably should be about one-sixteenth of a mile north of the grove of walnut trees and about two hundred feet west of First Street. The elevation of the location is about four feet lower than the one directly to the west