Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1936 [PAGE 83]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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On motion of Mr. Barr, the Committee on Chicago Departments was requested to study and report on the matter of dedicating the site of the old Medical and Dental buildings for use as a park. After discussion, it was voted to hold a special meeting at the new Medical and Dental Laboratories Building on Friday, 1 December 21, 1934, to consider the needs of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, and to invite to this meeting representatives of the Illinois Press Association, the State Board of Natural Resources and Conservation, the Illinois Mining Institute, and the State Department of Finance, and of our own departments. It was voted also to hold the January meeting at Urbana and to invite the same organizations and officers to appear at that time.

K1NCAID LAND AT METROPOLIS, ILLINOIS (11) At the meeting of the Board on October 12, 1934, a proposal from Professor Fay-Cooper Cole, of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago, that the University of Illinois consider the purchase of the Kincaid land near Metropolis, Illinois, on which are important Indian mounds, to insure their preservation, was referred to Mr. O. M. Karraker for investigation. Immediately on his return after that meeting Mr. Karraker called the bank at Metropolis for information and found that the option which the University of Chicago had on this land expired that d a y ; later he found t h a t the University of Chicago decided to exercise its option and bought the land. This takes care of the immediate situation and prevents the sale of the property for commercial purposes, so that the matter is closed. M r . Karraker m a d e a statement concerning this matter. r e p o r t w a s r e c e i v e d for r e c o r d . This

REPORT ON STUDENT LOAN FUNDS

(12) A special statistical report on the operation of the Student Loan Funds for the year ending June 30, 1934, prepared by the Bursar of the University, who is in charge of the administration of these loans, was sent to each member of the Finance Committee. This report calls attention to a loan of $75 made in 1925 out of the McKinley Fund to I. R. McMillan, now deceased. Since it is impossible to secure collection of this item and since any losses are simply charged out of the funds from which they are made and do not affect general University funds, the Finance Committee recommends that this loan be written off.

On motion of Mr. Barr, this recommendation was adopted.

SURVEY OF GREEN STREET (13) On March 13, 1934 (Minutes, page 473), the Board authorized a survey of Green Street near Mathews Avenue to determine the facts relating to the ownership of the street at t h a t point. Since t h a t time certain facts have been discovered by the Physical Plant Department and the University Counsel which indicate that a certain area along t h a t part of the street belongs to the City of Urbana. In view of these facts the question was raised with the Committee on Buildings and Grounds whether a survey, which would cost approximately $300, and would add little to what is already known as to the ownership of the land, was advisable. The Chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds does not favor the survey.

On motion of Mr. Barr, this report was received and adopted. On motion of Mr. Barrett, the Committee on Buildings and Grounds was requested to ask the University Counsel to ascertain in

•Date changed by President Williams to Saturday, December 22, 1934.