Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1928 [PAGE 572]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

569

O n motion of Mrs. Evans, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Armstrong, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Grigsby, Mrs. Ickes, Dr. Noble, M r . W a r d ; no, none; absent, M r . Barr, M r . Blair, M r . Small, M r . Trees. VIVARIUM W A L L APPROPRIATION (22) A n appropriation was made last July for a masonry wall on the north line of the Vivarium property as a protection along the switch tracks where the Illinois Traction Company unloaded coal. Since the appropriation was made, we have exchanged certain ground with the Illinois Traction Company, and the wall is not needed now in the place originally designated. Professor White requests authority to build the wall along the north line of our coal yard, between our property and the strip which we traded to the Illinois Traction Company. I recommend that this be given. O n motion of Dr. Noble, this recommendation was adopted. DENISON BEQUEST (23) A statement concerning certain conditions accompanying the bequest of Charles A. Denison (Minutes, May 21, 1927, page 273). O n motion of Dr. Noble, the following resolution was adopted. Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois hereby accepts the bequests m a d e to it in the last will and testament of Charles A . Denison, deceased, for the following purposes, as specified in said will: Fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) to be k n o w n as T h e Denison Memorial F u n d for Worthy Seniors, to be loaned to worthy senior students of the University; Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to be used for the purchase of books. B e it further resolved, That the President of the University be instructed to notify the trustee of the said will of the acceptance of these bequests by this Board, and that the Comptroller be authorized to receive the amounts due the Board of Trustees under these bequests, and to receipt for same to the trustee. B e it further resolved, That the President of the University be authorized to secure and install in a suitable place a memorial tablet satisfactory to the trustee, the expense of same to be borne by the Board of Trustees. O n motion of Mrs. Evans, one hundred dollars, or so m u c h thereof as m a y be necessary, was appropriated from the Reserve and Contingent F u n d for a memorial tablet. T h e vote was as follows : Aye, M r . Armstrong, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Grigsby, Mrs. Ickes, Dr. Noble, M r . W a r d ; no, none; absent, M r . Barr, M r . Blair, M r . Small, M r . Trees. LANDSCAPING OF THE C A M P U S Mrs. Ickes, for the Committee on Landscaping of the Campus, m a d e a report of progress, and withdrew.