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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS REPORT OF STADIUM COMMITTEE

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(37) A report of a meeting of the Stadium Executive Committee. April 11, 1924 President David Kinley, University of Illinois D e a r President Kinley: The Executive Committee of the University of Illinois Memorial Stadium Fund held a meeting on Wednesday, April 9th, in the office of Chairman Robert F. Carr, in Chicago, for the purpose of determining the extent to which building operations should be carried during the present season. After careful thought and deliberation the conclusion was reached to press construction work to completion in order to have the building, including its memorial features, ready for dedication at the Homecoming game on October 18th next. T o carry out this plan will call for the borrowing of a considerable sum of money in anticipation of collections from installments which do not mature for a period of time from three months to twenty-one months, and even longer, after the construction period. This decision was reached by the Committee because of its full confidence that we will collect not less than eighty percent of the total amount subscribed and possibly a larger percent eventually. The Committee instructed Chairman Carr to address a communication to the Board of Trustees requesting the Board to pave First and Fourth Street and to remove the cottage and out-buildings which now stand at the northeast corner of the east stand of the Stadium. It was felt that if we should have a repetition of the unfavorable weather which prevailed at the Inaugural game last fall, the Stadium could not live down the reputation for m a n y years to come and therefore the paving seems to us mPe ' Very sincerely yours C. J. Rosebery T h i s report w a s received for record.

LEGALITY OF DELEGATING SIGNATURE OF WARRANTS

(39) In view of the discussion of the last Board Meeting of the legality of delegating the signature of the officers of the Board, I report that the Legal Counsel has already given an opinion on this matter, as shown by the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees on June 9, 1914, page 768. T h i s report w a s received for record.

OPINION ON INSPECTION OF PLANS OF FRATERNITY HOUSES

(40) A n opinion from the Legal Counsel on the legality of the rule requiring that plans for fraternity houses be submitted to the Council of Administration. March 19, 1924 President David Kinley, Administration Building M y D e a r President Kinley: In response to your request for an opinion upon the recommendation of the Council of Administration to the Board of Trustees that fraternities and other University organizations, planning to build chapter houses or occupy chapter houses built for them, be "required to submit their house plans to the Council of Administration for approval so far as concerns the arrangements for study, living cost within the reach of the student from the average h o m e " etc., made December 15, 1923,1 a m pleased to submit to you the following: If the University m a y exercise any such authority as that contemplated by the recommendation it can do so only as a disciplinary measure. Does it come within the realm of power which the Board of Trustees, directly or by delegation, m a y exercise with reference to student discipline? In matter of student control, our courts recognize a decided difference in the powers which the governing body of a denominational or privately endowed institution m a y exercise from those which may be exercised by the governing body of a state or tax supported institution. It was so announced by the Supreme Court of Illinois nearly sixty years ago in People ex rel Pratt v. Wheaton College, 40 111. 186. Wheaton College, an incorporated institutionrestingupon private joined a secret societybecome as the Good Templars from wasHartleyadoptedviolation of endowment, and deriving no members the secret or and taxation, Pratt, a student, bidding students to known aid from of state societies. suspended for rule for-