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BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
April 29th, 1916.
Present Trustees, Schurman, Sessions, C. S. Wilson, Tyler, Cor
nell, Blood, Boldt, Edwards, Hiscock, Ickelheimer, Mason, Matthews,
Miller, Moody, Newman, Place, Pound, Pratt, Sackett, Shepard,
Tansey, C. E. Treman, R. H. Treman, Van Cleef, Westervelt, West
inghouse, A. D. White, Horace White, J. DuP. White, R. B. Williams,
T. B. Wilson. Comptroller Williams.
Trustee Boldt was called to the Chair.
Regrets were presented from Trustees Whitman, Patten, Straight,
Finley
and Schwab and their absences excused.
Action was taken as follows :
1. The minutes of the meeting of this Board of January 15, 1916,
were approved as printed.
2. The minutes of the meetings of the Committee on General
Administration from January 14, 1916, to April r, 1916, inclusive were
approved as printed and the action therein contained ratified and con
firmed.
3. The minutes of the meetings of the Committee on Buildings and
Grounds from January 14, 1916, to March 4, 1916, inclusive were
approved as printed and the action therein contained ratified and con
firmed, especial attention being called to the recommendation of the
meeting of February 15 for the present location of President Schur
man's house and adjacent dwellings as the site for the new Chemical
Laboratory.
4. The following recommendations of the Committee on Buildings
and Grounds at its meeting on April 28, 1916, were approved :
a. It was recommended to the Board of Trustees that $5,000 be
contributed towards the cost of a pumping engine to be maintained
by the city at the College Avenue Fire Station.
b. It was recommended to the Board of Trustees that Morse Hall
be equipped in the most temporary way possible to make it available
for a period of from three to four years for the use of the Chemical
Department at an expense of from $30,000 to $35,000 of which approxi
mately $8,000 of equipment will be available in a new building ; the
amount to be appropriated from the insurance on the building.
c. The sub-committee on grounds presented general studies for
the improvement of the Cascadilla Creek and Fall Creek gorges and
it was resolved that the general plans be approved subject to such
changes as may be approved by the committee as and when the work
is done.
5. The minutes of the meetings of the Committee on Finance from