Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926
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572 BOARD OF TRUSTEES [April 14 Montgomery Elevator Company $5,000 Otis Elevator Company 5.620 W a m e r Elevator Manufacturing Company • . 5>950 Kaestner & Hecht Company 6,068 Most of the elevators on our campus are either Otis Elevator Company or Kaestner & Hecht installations, but we have checked the specifications of the Montgomery Elevator company and their elevator seems to fulfill all of our requirements. I recommend, therefore, that the contract for the elevator in the Library Stack Unit be awarded to the Montgomery Elevator Company on the basis of the low bid. O n motion of M r . Barr, this recommendation w a s approved. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR MISS MARY BURWASH (21) Miss Mary Burwash, in charge of our Agricultural library, desires to go to Europe this summer and to return three weeks late. I recommend that she be permitted to be absent those three weeks without pay. O n motion of M r s . Evans, this recommendation w a s approved. CHANGE IN SCHOLARSHIP RULE (22) The present regulation for extension of scholarships which are subject to extension on the President's approval is as follows: "The terra of any scholarship will be extended under the provision of section 175 of the statute, only i the holder f has been in attendance at the University for at least thefirsthalf year after he was awarded the scholarship, and i his average grade during the period of his f attendance has been at least "C", exclusive of grades in military science and physical education." I recommend that this rule be amended so that it shall require attendance during one full year as a condition of extending the scholarship, instead of the first half year. O n motion of M r . Barr, this recommendation w a s concurred in. PHILADELPHIA SESQUICENTENNIAL (23) A statement concerning the possibility of a University exhibit at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exhibition. N o action w a s taken in this matter. PROPOSED GASOLINE STATION (24) A statement concerning a proposal to erect a gasoline filling station at the northeast corner of Green Street and Mathews Avenue. O n suggestion of M r s . E v a n s , it w a s agreed to express the opinion that the construction of such a station in this place seems inadvisable from the standpoint of the University. DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARIES (25) A request for authority to ask the members of the staff to designate the beneficiaries to whom their death benefits should be paid. This authority w a s granted. COMPTROLLER'S REPORT (26) The Comptroller's report for the quarter ending March 31, 1926.
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