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Meeting
66
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
of the Board of Trustees
Waldorf-Astoria, New York.
January 15, 1916.
Present Trustees Schurman, Schoeneck, C. S. Wilson, Tyler, Cor
nell, Blood, Boldt, Edwards, Hiscock, Ickelheimer, Matthews, Miller,-
Moody, Newman, Place, Pound, Sackett, Schwab, Shepard, Tansey,
C. E. Treman, R. H. Treman, Van Cleef, Westervelt, and Williams.
Comptroller Williams.
Trustee Boldt was called to the chair.
Excuses were presented from Trustees A. D. White, Pratt, Carnegie,.
Patten, Finley, Horace White, T. B. Wilson, Westinghouse, Sweet,.
Straight and J. D. White, and their absences excused.
Action was taken as follows :
1. The minutes of the meeting of this Board of November 6, 1915^
were approved as printed.
2. The minutes of the meetings of the Committee on General
Administration from November 6, 1915^0 December 4, 1915, inclusive,
were approved as printed and the action therein contained ratified
and confirmed.
3. The minutes of the meetings of the Committee on Finance from
November 18, 1915, to December 1, 1915, inclusive, were approved as
printed and the action therein contained ratified and confirmed.
4. The minutes of the meeting of the Committee on Buildings and
Grounds of December 4, 1915, were approved as printed and the action
therein contained ratified and confirmed.
5. Chairman Hiscock of the Committee of Revision of the Statutes
made a verbal report upon the progress of the committee since the
last meeting.
6. Trustee Sackett, as chairman of the General Committee on the
Semi-centenial Celebration, reported that the committee had organ
ized with his election as chairman and Professor C. H. Hull as vice-
chairman.
That an executive committee had been appointed, consisting of the
chairman, President Schurman, and Messrs. Hull, Treman, Pound,
Smith, and Galloway, with Mr. H. W. Peters as Secretary.