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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 20,

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922 T h e Secretary presented for record the minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee held September 30, 1922. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held in the office of Schmidt and Garden, Architects, in Chicago, at 12 o'clock m. on Saturday, September 30, 1922. Mr. W . L. Abbott, Chairman, and Mrs. Mary E. Busey, a member of the Committee, were present; also President David Kinley, Professor J. M . White, Supervising Architect, Mr. Schmidt, Architect for the Medical Research Library and Laboratory Building, and representatives of the contractors. Mr. Abbott announced that the purpose of the meeting was the opening of bids for the construction of the superstructure of the new Medical Research Library and Laboratory Building, and asked whether there were any more bids to be presented. As there were no more bids, Mr. Abbott declared the bidding closed, and opened the bids. As it appeared that the total amount of the lowest bids and estimates for the construction and furnishings of the building was in excess of the appropriation, the architects were directed to recommend some means for reducing the total cost; and to award the contract to the lowest bidder if, after conference with that bidder, he found it possible to suggest changes and omissions which would bring the bid down to approximately the amount of the appropriation; and it was left to the chairman of the committee to receive the report of the architect to that effect, and, if satisfled, to confirm the instructions of the committee by telling the architect to go ahead and let the bid on the basis of the changed estimates reported to him. The Committee adjourned. H. E. Cunningham W . L. Abbott Clerk Mary E. Busey The Chairman reported that the architect reported to him on Saturday, October 7, in substance, that by the omission of one bay and the reduction of approximately ten thousand dollars in other items it would be possible to bring the estimates on the construction of the buildings to approximately $490,000. The chairman of the Committee then instructed the architect to let the bid on that basis, namely, the omission of one bay, and the reduction of other items which might be determined on after consultation with the Dean and faculty of the College of Medicine. MATTERS PRESENTED BY PRESIDENT KINLEY The Board considered the following matters presented by the President of the University. DEGREES GRANTED (1) A recommendation from the University Senate that degrees be conferred upon the following candidates who havefinishedthe University requirement therefor. T H E G R A D U A T E SCHOOL T h e Degree of Master of Arts In Economics Orie Benjamin Geric, A.B., Goshen College, 1917 Harold Walter Guest, A.B., Albion College, 1921 William Blair Stewart, Jr., A.B., Reed College, 1907 In Education Forrest Glen Edwards, A.B., Lombard College, 1907 Frank James DuFrain, A.B., 1916 Guy Jink Koons, A.B., 1912