eCommons@Cornell - Cornell University

1983
1929 upon which immediate action by the Board was desired, and, on
motion, the following portions of the minutes of such meeting were
approved, and the action therein contained ratified and confirmed,
and recommendations adopted as follows :
{a) Section 2 recommending the as soon as securing possible of the
sites now occupied by the houses of Psi Upsilon and Sigma Phi
fraternities, and Professor E. L. Nichols.
(b) Section 3 recommending
the approval of the program for the
development of the general field of Fine Arts as outlined in the pro
gram submitted by Mr. Ackerman and as summarized by the President
in his report to the Board, and referring to the Committee on Build
ings and Grounds with power to select the site and to study and
report on the plans for the construction of the Fine Arts building.
(c) Section 9 authorizing the Committee to proceed with the dredg
of ing Beebe Lake.
(d) Section 11 granting to the Cornell Athletic Association permis
sion to substitute a new building for the two old buildings near the
toboggan slide, such building to be subject to the approval of the
Committee as to type and location.
(e) Section 14 that Commencement for this year be held in Bailey
Hall.
10. By vote of the majority of the Board of Trustees, Article VIII
of the Statutes of the University were amended to read as follows :
(A) The University Faculty. The University Faculty
shall consist
of the President of the University who shall be ex-officio the presiding
officer, and the professors and assistant professors who are members of
the above namedVpecial faculties,the Librarian, the Assistant Librarians
in the University Library, the Registrar, the Secretary of the Univer
sity, the Dean of Women, the Director of Admissions, and the Direc
tor of Resident Instruction, the Director of Extension Service, and
the Director of Experiment Station in the Colleges of Agriculture and
Home Economics, (the remainder of the section remaining
present. )
as at
(B) The Special Faculties. Insert after the first sentence the
following: The Director of Resident Instruction, the Director of the
Extension Service and the Director of the Experiment Station in the
Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics shall be members of
the Faculties of Agriculture and Home Economics.
11. Resolved: That the recommendation of the State College
Council that a committee consisting of the President, the Dean of the
College of Agriculture, and the Comptroller be given power to pass
upon items to be presented this year to the Legislature in connection
with the Department of Animal Husbandry be approved with the