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M E E T I N G OF A P R I L 19, 1898.
The following call for a special meeting of the Board of Trustees
of the University of Illinois was issued April 11, 1898:
"Upon the call of the President, Mr. F. M. McKay, there will be a special
meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at 9 o'clock
&. m., Tuesday, April 19, 1898, at the Sherman House, Chicago, to consider
matters pertaining' to the School of Medicine, and such other business as may
be presented."
Pursuant.to this call the Board met at 9 o'clock a. m., April 19,
1898, at the Sherman House, in Chicago.
There were present Messrs. Armstrong, Bullard, McLean, McKay,
Morrison, Pearee, Eaymond, and Smith and Mrs. Carriel; absent
Cfovernor Tanner, Mr. Inglis, and Mrs. FloWer.
DEGREES CONFERRED.
SCHOOL O F
MEDICINE.
President Draper presented a list of persons recommended by the
Faculty of the School of Medicine of the University of Illinois for
the degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, and on motion of
Mr. McLean, authority was given toj confer upon them this degree at
the commencement of the School of Medicine to be held in the afternoon at the Grand Opera House, Chicago.
Victor V. Bacon, M. D.
H e n r y Lester Baker,
W a l t e r s . Bebb,
William Belitz,
J a m e s M. Beveridge, A. B.,
J a c o b Bursma, A. B.,
J . Baptist B u t t s ,
E m e r y Marcus Byers,
Leo L. Cahill
B e r t Mather Carr,
Amos Foster Conard,
F r a n k Howard Conner, B. S..
George E. Coon,
J o h n Francis Corbih, B. S..
Alfred C. Crofton, Ph. D„ M. D.,
I r a H u g h Dillon.
Aloysius N. J, Dolan, A. M..
William T e c u m s e h Dowdall,
•Robert E m m e r s o n .
F r a n c i s Sebastian Feeney.
Bartholomew F. Flanagan,
Geoffrey J. Fleming,
M. Arista Bingley.
David A. T. Bjorkman, A. B.,
Fred Hamilton Blayney, A. B.,
Darwin E. Brown,
William Floeton Brownell,
Marcus Samuel Fletcher, B S.,
H u g h Martin Hall,
Thomas J . Hambley, Ph. B M
E u n i c e B e r t h a Hamill,
William E r n e s t Hart,
George B . M. Hill v
H. C. Homer,
Martin Luther Hooper, M. D.*
J o h n Henry Hovenden,
E r n e s t Alexandr Hunt, B. S.,
Charles Ellsworth Husk,
Charles S t u a r t Hutchinson, M. S
W e n t w o r t h Lee Irwin, M. D.,
Simeon Ryerson J o h n s o n , B. S.
Felix T. Kalacinski,
Oliver P. Kemp. B. S.,
Clarence Bruce King.
Benjamin F. Kirkland,
Charles Albert Kittredge,
E u g e n e Colburn Knight,
Arvid E r n e s t Kohler,
F r a n k Benson Lucas,
Elijah A. Lyon, Ph. G., M. D.,
Matthew E. McManes,
Thomas Ulysses McManus, A. B
A. Baxter Miller,
Patrick Robert Minahan,
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Ward Redfield Ford, Ph. G.,
Amaxidus Ulysses Fuson,
Samuel Carson Garher, B. S.,
Henry Bernard Graeser,
John Arthur Mutchler, B. S.,
John Stephen Nagel, Ph. G.,
James M. Neff,
George F. Newhall,
Timothy Van Buren Overton,
Addison C. Page, A. B.,
Otto Hugo Pagelsen, B. S.,
William Robert Pennington, M. D.,
William Petersmeyer,
Jennie Lind Phillips.
Stephen Roman Pietrowicz,
Fred D. Pratz, A. B.,
Charles P. Proudfoot,
William Abraham Purington.
Henry Courtland Rogers,
Roy Allen Roszell,
George Rubin.
Paul Sheldon Scholes. A. B.,
Henry G. Schuessler,
Franz F. H. Schuldt,
Wesley Morley Sherin,
Austin Ulysses Simpson, B. S.
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Charles E. Simpson,
Daniel Gilmore Simpson, A. B.,
John H. Slater,
Emanuel Frank Snydacker,
George H. Sollenbarger,
Harry Randolph Spickermon,
William H. Stayner.
William J. Steele, B. S..
Bayard Taylor Stevenson,
Carl Downer Stone,
William Truman Stone, M. D.,
Charles Frederick Stotz,
Henry J. Swink, A. M\,
William H. Vary,
Olander E. Wald,
William Godfrey Wegner,
Wiilibald John Wehle, Ph. G., M. D.,
David Gillison Wells, Ph G.,
Charles Franklin Whitmer. Ph. G.,
Frank B. Wbitmore. B. S„ M. D.,
Eugene D. Whitney, Ph. B.,
Louis G. Witherspoon, B. S.,
Milton Cyrus Wolf,
John Jacob Wuerth, Ph. G.,
George Van Wyland,
Charles Ira Wynekoop, B. S-
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY.
President Draper presented a list of persons recommended for degrees by the Faculty of the School of Pharmacy of the University
of Illinois, and upon motion of Mr. McLean, authority was given to>
confer degrees as, recommended, at the commencement of the School/
of Pharmacy to be held at the Grand Opera House, Chicago, in the
afternoon of April 21, 1898.
FOR THE DEGREE OF GRADUATE IN PHARMACY.
Bertram Maier,
Joseph Samuel Ashmore,
Otto Herman Mentz*,
George William Atzel,
Algy Charles Moore
John Bakkers,
Edward Paul Albert Neverman,
Herbert Arthur Bauer,
Egil Thorbjorn Olsen,
William Townzen Bowman,
Charles Francis Rainey,
Bert Lemon Brenner,
Charles Theodore Frederick
Harry Alexander Clark,
William Ruhland^
Samuel Bricker Donaberger,
Ziska Erhart Schuetz.
Arthur Wardo Freeman,
Emil Henry Schultz, •
Andrew Hone Harris,
Frank Siedenberg,
William Frederick Herrmann,
William Smale,
Axel Sanfred Holmsted.
Maximilian Sobel,
Hugh Benton Honens.
William Stroetzel,
Clyde Ernest Huddleston,
Charles Reuben Thompson,
George Jacob Kappus,
Charles Augustus Warhanik,
Joseph Robert Kloppenburg.
Mark Henry Watters,
William Gabriel Joseph Kops,
Henry Weigand, Jr.
Ernest Aiigust Koropp,
Paul Harry Wiedel.
Bohumil Lauber,
* FOR THE DEGREE OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST.
Charles Everett Jones.
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER IN PHARMACY.
Henry Biroth.
Ezekiel Herbert Sargent.
Nicholas Gray Bartlett.
President Draper presented a letter from Mr. George E. Gardner
resigning his professorship in the School of Law. The resignation
was accepted to take effect September 1, 1898.
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P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r r e c o m m e n d e d t h e a p p o i n t m e n t of Mr. Charles A.
W i n s t o n to be an assistant professor in t h e School of L a w at a salary
of $1,200.00 a year, term of service to b e g i n S e p t e m b e r 1, 1898.
On motion of Mr. S m i t h , t h i s a p p o i n t m e n t was m a d e as recommended.
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EMPLOYMENT OF INSTRUCTORS FOR WORK OUTSIDE OF THEIR
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REGULAR DUTIES.
lo the Board of Trustees,
The conditions have heretofore'made it convenient for us to employ University professors in other than their professional duties and give them extra
compensation therefor. 1 have for a considerable time doubted the advisability of so doing and have now come to the conclusion that it is so hurtful to
tbe educational interests of the University as to require an early and complete discontinuance of the custom. It necessarily follows that men who are
so employed are unable to give the time and attention which they otherwise
would to their classes. The additionarcompensation given to a few members
is widely demoralizing to the instructional force. It is clear to my mind that
it will be wise policy to emphasize the importance of the department of buildings and grounds and secure for the head of that department a man who is
entirely competent to superintend the work of constructing and repairing
structures, as well as the work of caring for and beautifying the grounds. I
am sure that the material interests of the University will be greatly advanced
thereby arid that there will be less confusion and annoyance from janitors
and workmen, and consequently less interruption to the natural workof the
institution.
I do not mean by the foregoing to suggest that any one is at fault about
the matter. We have all yielded to the conditions'in. which we found ourselves, and have*made use of the best means at.command for going ahead.
But the experience surely demonstrates that it is necessary to take a different
course in the future. I therefore recommend the adoption of the following
resolution.
.
Resolved, That after the present University year no one connected with the
instructional force of the University shall be employed in any work which
does not naturally come within the scope of his duties and for which additional compensation will be expected, without the approval of the President
of the University and the action of the Board of Trustees in regular session.
A. S. DRAPER, President.
T h e foregoing resolution was adopted on motion of Mr. A r m s t r o n g .
T h e following resolution, offered by Mr. Morrison, was t h e n
adopted:
Resolved, That the Board understands that the services of all the professors
and instructors touching matters within their expert or professional knowledge should be fully given to the promotion of all University ends without
their expecting additional compensation.
LUNCH ROOM—DEPARTMENT OF DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r presented the following co.i m u n i c a t i o n :
To the Board of Trustees.
The necessity of better living accommodations for students of the University has become so urgent that I can no longer delay presenting the matter
formally and urgently to ihe Board of Trustees. The increase in attendance
h^as outrun the increase in accommodations. Many students alrea ly find it
exceedingly difficult to secure suitable rooms and nourishing-food-.at.reason-
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19,
able rates. This is perhaps more emphatically true of the Faculty than of the
students. There seems to be a very general lack of appreciation of the importance of this subject on the part of people living in the cities adjacent to
the University. It has been a surprise to me that private capital has not ventured to erect more buildings, with modern conveniences, in the neighborhood of the University; and also, to provide more facilities for obtaining
meals near us. There is no room for doubt but that such accommodations
would be quickly seized upon and appreciated. Unless something is done in
this direction, with new energy, we shall be embarrassed still more with the
advent of the increased attendance which we are bound to anticipate at the
beginning of the next University year. I have every reason for saying that
the difficulty in securing proper rooms and suitable board, at reasonable
rates, is now the most serious difficulty in the way of the growth of the institution.
Other institutions have been obliged to confront this difficulty. There is
scarcely a large university in the country which has not at one time or another been obliged to initiate measures for meeting the needs of its faculty
and students. Indeed, there are few of the larger universities which do not
maintain a lunch room where faculty and students can obtain their meals, or
at least part of them. These lunch rooms are, I am told, easily self-supporting, if managed competently. If such a room could be established at our
University, it would be a greater boon to many of our people than is commonly supposed; and, aside from providing needed food, it would enable us
to make a shorter noon recess and arrange a schedule of recitations which
would more completely facilitate our work..
It "has occurred to me that we might, next fall, start a department of domestic
economy, about which we have frequently talked, and that in some
T
w ay this department might open a lunch room and thus accomplish several
desirable purposes at the same time. The room under the chapel in University Hall, which has heretofore been occupied as the electrical laboratory,
wiil be vacated in a few days, and, while there are calls for it by departments
already established, I am not sure but the best use we canx put it to wiil be to
establish a lunch room in it.
I submit the whole matter to the serious consideration of the Board of
Trustees and ask for such action upon it as may seem practicable.
A. S. DRAPER, President.
Mr. M c L e a n offered the following r e s o l u t i o n :
Besolved, That the room now used for the electrical laboratory, but soon to
be vacated, be properly arranged, under the supervision of a committee of
the Board, as a restaurant, and that it be given rent free to some qualified
caterer for the term of one year.
O n m o t i o n of Mr. R a y m o n d , t h i s resolution was referred 'to Mr.
P e a r c e , P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r , and t h e C o m m i t t e e on S t u d e n t s ' Welfare,
as a special committee.
T h e q u e s t i o n of t h e e s t a b l i s h m e n t of a d e p a r t m e n t of domestic
science was, on m o t i o n of Mr. M c L e a n , referred to P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r
for investigation a n d report.
T h e m a t t e r of s m o k i n g on U n i v e r s i t y premises was referred to t h e
C o m m i t t e e on S t u d e n t s ' Welfare.'
P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r presented, with his approval, a request from Dr.
K i n l e y for t h e a p p r o p r i a t i o n of $50.00 to defray t h e expenses of
c o n t i n u i n g t h e investigation into t h e cost of p r o d u c t i o n of corn a n d
oats, a n d the a p p r o p r i a t i o n was made.
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P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r presented, with h i s approval, a r e q u e s t from
Professor M y e r s for an a p p r o p r i a t i o n of $6000, to be used in t h e
p u b l i c a t i o n of t h e results of an investigation m a d e b y h i m of t h e
light changes in a variable star, based on observations given h i m by
Professor P i c k e r i n g , of H a r v a r d Observatory, a n d t h e a p p r o p r i a tion was made.
P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r p r e s e n t e d a r e q u e s t from t h e S t u d e n t s ' D e m o cratic Club of t h e U n i v e r s i t y a s k i n g for t h e use of Military H a l l for
a lecture to be given by t h e H o n . W i l l i a m J . B r y a n , sometime d u r i n g t h e m o n t h of M a y next.
Mr. M c L e a n moved t h a t t h e r e q u e s t be not granted, i n a s m u c h as
it was c o n t r a r y to t h e rjolicy of. the B o a r d to have M i l i t a r y H a l l
used for other t h a n U n i v e r s i t y purposes.
Mr. Morrison moved to a m e n d the motion so as to g r a n t t h e use
of t h e H a l l , in accordance with t h e request.
U p o n this a m e n d m e n t t h e ayes were—Messrs. Bullard and Morris o n ; t h e noes—Messrs. A r m s t r o n g , M c K a y , M c L e a n , P e a r c e , R a y mond, S m i t h , and M r s . Carriel, a n d t h e a m e n d m e n t failed.
T h e motion was t h e n carried.
T h e following report was received from t h e C o m m i t t e e on B u i l d i n g s and G r o u n d s :
'HEATING, LIGHTING, AND POWER PLANT.
To the Board of Trustees.
Your Committee on Buildings and Grounds desires to report that M.
Yeager & Son, the general contractors on the new mechanical and electrical
laboratory and boiler "house, had their contract completed at the'time of the
March meeting of the Board. The architects, Messrs. McLane & Temple,
reported to your Committee that the work and materials had been satisfactory
and that the contract had been completed according to the drawings and
specifications.
The time stipulation of the contract was that all the buildings were to be
completed and ready for the acceptance of the Committee on December 1,
1897. The work for several reasons stated by the contractors,, which they
claimed to be sufficient, was not completed on the date stated. The difference between the date of completion called for by the contract and date on
which the work was ready for acceptance was. figured by the architects to be
97 days. The forfeiture clause in the contract required a deduction of
twenty-five dollars per day for each and every day the work remained uncompleted and not ready for acceptance after December 1, 1897. The amount of
forfeiture for the 97 days was $2,425. The Committee did not feel like assuming the responsibility of deciding whether or not the reasons set forth by M.
Yeager & Son, the contractors, for the delays were sufficient to excuse them
from demands of the forfeiture clause and therefore ordered that the request
of M. Yeager & Son for a release from the forfeiture clause of the contract be
referred to the Board for action.
Your Committee feels that the contractors have done their work well and
have given us a good and satisfactory building. We desire to commend the
work which they have done. We desire to say also that the boiler house was
turned over to us for the use of the University, though not fully completed,
two days before the date required by the contract, and that the delay mentioned has occurred on the engineering laboratory. The new boiler was
placed in the boiler house during the month of December and on the 28th
was fired up for steam. The cold storage and coal handling machinery was
put in as soon as possible thereafter. It is true, therefore, that the plans of
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Professor Breckenridge for the use of the heating apparatus during the winter just past have not been disarranged on account of the delay in the completion of the work of the contract.
Respectfully submitted,
S. A. BULLARD,
Chairman.
April 19, 1898.
Mr. S m i t h moved to waive i n s e t t l e m e n t with Yeager & S o n
$2,000.00 of t h e penalty. M r . Morrison moved to a m e n d b y waiving
t h e full p e n a l t y i n t h e settlement, a n d t h e a m e n d m e n t prevailed b y
the following vote: Y e a s — A r m s t r o n g , Bullard, M c L e a n , Morrison,
R a y m o n d , a n d Mrs. C a r r i e l ; nays—Messrs. M c K a y a n d S m i t h .
T h e motion as a m e n d e d was adopted.
O n motion of M r . R a y m o n d , $1,100.00 was a p p r o p r i a t e d for t h e
erection of a s t r u c t u r e for h o u s i n g wagons a n d farm i m p l e m e n t s a n d
for fencing yards for farm animals, t h i s s u m b e i n g i n addition to t h e
$800.00 a p p r o p r i a t e d a t t h e m e e t i n g of t h e B o a r d S e p t e m b e r 2 1 ,
1897.
O n motion of M r . R a y m o n d , $30.00 was a p p r o p r i a t e d for tiling o n
t h e s o u t h farm.
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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE—SCHOOL OF PHARMACY,
T h e following c o m m u n i c a t i o n from t h e B u s i n e s s Manager, P r o fessor S h a t t u c k , was p r e s e n t e d b y P r e s i d e n t D r a p e r , a n d so m u c h a s
relates to t h e School of P h a r m a c y was referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on
t h e School of P h a r m a c y ; a n d so m u c h as relates to t h e School of
M e d i c i n e was referred to t h e C o m m i t t e e on t h e School of M e d i c i n e .
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, April 16, 1898.
President A. S. Draper.
DEAR SIR:—I beg to offer the following statement:
The receipts-for t h e School of P h a r m a c y for t h e year ending J u n e 80, 1898, will
be about
$10,500 00
The expenses which belong to the same time will be about
12,500 00
This amount is made up as follows:
Salaries for instruction
Salaries for services
Rent
Advertising, etc
,
Laboratories .....*
Fuel and lights
Stationery and p r i n t i n g
Furniture
Repairs
M issellaneous
$4,500
1,500
2,400
1,000
1,200
500
200
100
200
900
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
00
$12,500 00
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I understand that it is proposed to add to the instruction in chemistry tosuch an extent that the expense would be increased $L,000.00:.
T h e income of the School of Medicine for t h e year ending April 21, 1898, will be
about
,....
$40,000 00
T h e expenses for the same time will be about*
32.000 00'
E stimated balance
$8,000 00
This balance ought to be held as a working capital, as the income from
this time to October 1st, is not sufficient to meet the expenses for that time.
I notice by the reports of Dr. Steele. Actuary, that quite a number of rebates on tuition have been made; as at present no authority has been given,
by the Board of Trustees for this, I desire instructions in the matter.
.Respectfully submitted,
S. W.
SHATTUCK,
Business Manager.
U p o n the r e q u e s t of Professor F o r b e s , p r e s e n t e d by Mr. M c K a y ,
E r n e s t B . F o r b e s was a p p o i n t e d entomological assistant in t h e S t a t e
L a b o r a t o r y of N a t u r a l H i s t o r y a n d assigned to d u t y in t h e S t a t e
Entomologist's office; salary to- be "$7Q.0G a m o n t h .
T h e B o a r d adjourned.
W.
L. P I L L S B U R Y ,
Secretary..
F . M.
MCKAY,
President