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board OF trustees

[November 17

M A T T E R S P R E S E N T E D B Y P R E S I D E N T KINLEY T h e Board considered the following matters presented by the President of the University. APPOINTMENT OF MR. HERBERT POPE TO THE BOARD OF E X A M I N E R S IN A C C O U N T A N C Y (1) Pursuant to the authority given me at the September meeting of the Board, I have appointed Mr. Herbert Pope, of the law firm of Butler, Lamb, Foster, & Pope, as a member of the Board of Examiners in Accountancy. This report was received for record. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR MR. FORREST MOCK (2) O n request of Dean Babcock and Professor Adams, I recommend that Mr. Forrest Mock, Assistant Storekeeper in the Chemical Laboratories, be given sick leave, without pay, from October 19 until such time as he is able to return to work, but not later than December 1, 1927. O n motion of Mrs. Busey, this leave was granted. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR DEAN BABCOCK (3) A recommendation that Dean K. C. Babcock be given sick leave with pay, for three months. O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, this leave w a s granted. TITLE OF DR. EDWARD L. HEINTZ (4) To clear up what seems to me to have been a misunderstanding concerning the title with which Dr. Heintz was retired, I recommend that the word "clinical" be omitted from the retiring title as conferred by the Board at its meeting of December 14, 1926. His title will then read "Associate Professor of Medicine, Emeritus." O n motion of Dr. Noble, this recommendation was adopted. PURCHASE OF PERCIVAL LAND (5) The Supervising Architect reports that he has secured a thirty-day option from Mr. J. H. Percival and his wife for the purchase of the farm of 208 acres, more or less, adjoining the University farms, at $350 per acre. The University has been negotiating for the purchase of this land since 1923 and leased i from March, 1924, to March, 1927, for agricultural purt poses. W e have also held an option on its purchase at $450 per acre, but I was unwilling to recommend nor was the Board willing to approve its purchase at that figure. Professor White writes as follows: "I consider that the location of the land justifies us in paying at least fifty percent more for i than we would for other equally good land not t adjacent to our present holdings; but our agronomists contend that this ground is peculiarly suitable for their research work and that there is no other ground close at hand which will meet their needs so well. "I not only recommend, but would like to urge the acceptance of the option to purchase this land." The land is at present under lease, which contains the following provision : "It is hereby agreed that if all or any part of said lands be sold, this lease automatically becomes null and void. In the event of such sale, party of the second part shall deliver to first party this lease; also peaceable possession to said lands, without any cost to party of thefirstpart—being understood that if sold after cropping season begins, that i is sold according t to tenant's rights."