Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1924 [PAGE 307]

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board of trustees

[September 25,

DAVENPORT HOUSE At this point, Mrs. Evans reported that the special committee appointed November 9, 1922 (page 87), to consider the matter of naming the house purchased from Dean Davenport and used as a residence for women students, recommends that the house be designated "Davenport House." This report was adopted. TABLET FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH BUILDING A design for a bronze tablet for the Medical Research Library and Laboratory building was submitted and approved, with the stipulation that the name of the contractor should be omitted. LOCATION OF P O W E R PLANT O n recommendation of President Noble, and on motion of Mr. Trimble, it was voted to request the good offices of the Superintendent of Public Welfare to secure the location of the power and heating plant of the Chicago group of buildings (being erected by the Department and the University) on the state property south of the alley and fronting on Taylor street instead of locating the plant on the main lot. The Board resumed the consideration of matters presented by the President of the University. ASSIGNMENT OF LAND (18) The Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station demurs to the assignment of the 40 acres of land across the street west of the golf course for golf purposes which was made at the July meeting of the Board. I understood at the time of making the recommendation that the Director of the Experiment Station concurred with the Superintendent of Business Operations in the view that if the 40 acres just east of the golf course, formerly used by the department of horticulture, were assigned for poultry, the 40 acres across the street, west of the golf course, would be released. Since I was mistaken in this understanding, I recommend that the action of the Board recorded as recommendation number 12 on page 234 of the minutes of the Board, July 11, 1923, whereby the 40 acres east of the golf course was assigned to poultry, and the 40 acres west of the golf course, across the street, assigned for surveying and use for golf when not in use for class purposes, be reconsidered. O n m o t i o n of M r . T r i m b l e , this action w a s reconsidered. D e a n M u m f o r d a n d Professor W h i t e m a d e statements concerning the assignment of this land. O n m o t i o n of M r . Trimble, the action of July II w a s rescinded. STUDIES OF N E W BUILDINGS Professor White presented studies of the new Gymnasium, the Dairy Manufactures, and the Library buildings. At this point, Mrs. Blake withdrew. MEDICAL RESEARCH BUILDING O n motion of Mr. Trimble, the amount appropriated by the General Assembly for the Medical Research Library and Laboratory Building ($500,000) was appropriated for the purposes of the act. The vote was as follows: Aye, Mr. Armstrong, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Grigsby, Mr. Noble, M r . Trees, Mr. Trimble; no, none; absent Mr. Blair, Mrs. Blake, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Small.