MEETING OP THE STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. President1^ Office* June 18TH, 1919• 10 o'clock A. 1.. Present, President Kedzie, Messrs. Graham, Doherty, Beaumont, Woodman and Wallace• The minutes of the previous meeting were approved without reading* On motion of Mr* Graham, the following report arid recommendation of the Committee on Employees was adopted: "The Committee on Employee's makes the following recommendations regarding salaries, viz:- ' •That in the salaries of all persons below the grade of-heads of departments and exclusive of stenographers, a straight advance-be made of $2..00 each; that the salaries of heads of heads of departments now draw ing less that $*K)00*00, be increased #4-50*00 each, and further that the President and Secretary be authorized to make such further increases for special ability and service, or other appropriate reasons, as may to them seem just and expedient* . "That it- is further recommended that in the. place.of the. "inci- . dental" fee of $7*50 per year, now ^aid by students, an annual fee of $4-5*00 be charged, payable $15*00 per term, that the fee for Special Courses be #10.00 instead of #5*00 for Michigan students and $20*00 instead of $10*00 for foreign students, and that a very substantial increase in room rents be established, sufficient at least to cover the cost to the institution*" "On motion of Mr* Doherty, the following resolution was adopted* "Whereas, some of. the departments and agencies, of the College:, have persistently overstepped the. regulations in regard to the purchase of sup?- plie.s, to the annoyance and confusion of. the Business Office and .the Purchas ing. Agent in particular, therefore be it RESOLVED, That from and after July 1, next, any and all purchases made on College account by any individual other than the Purchasing Agent or by his permission will be regarded as personal and such invoices will not be paid.Ky the College*" . . In response to the request of the Board, the following report was received from Olmstead.Brothers: » . < "6th June, 1919- . ' " • ' ". "State Board of Agriculture Lansing, Michigan. . . -. Gentlemen: ' - ' - you have referred two questions to us for an opinion* The first relates to the expediency of transferring land now in cluded in the campus of the People's Church as a site for a church build ing and to the best location for such a site if expedient* Bearing in mind the history of other educational institutions in. regard to.extension and contraction of the lands held by them for educational purposes, and bearing in mind the present logical and satisfactory boundary of the campus I along Grand River Avenue and Michigan Avenue, we would advise in the strong- est terms against alienating any of the College land south of those Avenues * | If it is the polic3r of the Board to enter into cooperation with the relig- | ious congregations which maintain the People*s Church, or with any or all | \ of the religious congregations which maintain the Peopled Church, or with | any or all of the religious congregations which are now or may hereafter "be j established in East Lansing, for the purpose of providing a common place of I worship for joint use by students and citizens, it would seem that this end j could be accomplished in either of two ways without the very serious risk of | future complications involved in alienating any part of the Campus« \ would be the erection on the Campus of a non-sectarian collegiate chapel or church open to the citizens e.f H he town and partly ,supported by them but owned by the College and providing for-worship from time to time according to the manner | | of any and every faith professed by any considerable number of students* ! The other would be to aid by money grants and otherwise in the support of j any church or churches in the town to which the students resort* A Church j within the Campus but not of it, and wholly beyond the control of your Board as to the future developments, would be almost certain to prove embarrassing in some future contingency of the growth of the College* One way \ The question of a suitable site for a church within the ©.mpus would | j be important, even if the opinion of the Board concurs with ours in regard to j the expediency of alienating any part of the Campus, in case there is ary prob- | ability of cooperations with congregations in East Lansing in the erection and use of a structure on the Campus without transfer of title from the Col lege . But the selection of a good site is not easy, and in view of our opin ion on the major question we have not attempted to select a site pending furth- I. er instruct ions « i The other matter relates to the location of the Library and Aud- ! itorium. In our report of May 10th, 1915» in outlining a scheme of future quadrangles, we suggested the site at the north end of Quadrangle II, in- | eluding the site of the present library, as possibly desirable for the fu- | ture library, and recommended the west end of Quadrangle I, on the site of I the present greenhouses for an Auditorium* The destruction of Williams Hall. | and the. economical desire to convert the present library building to other uses and retain it for some years to come, point clearly toward the erec tion of the new library on the site of Williams Hall, which has some distinct | advantages over the one we suggested in 1915 and no serious drawbacks. I Its main advantage is that it is more central to the working buildings of the College and to the heating plant. The only advantage of the site pre- | viously recommended is that in the distant future, with the completion of the Quadrangle system which we outlined, it would occupy a better architect ural position for a building of such importance, namely at one end of a quad rangle and on the axis thereof. But until the removal of the present Library j and the completion of the quadrangle, the site then suggested would toe infer- ! ior in appearance to the one made available by the burning of Williams Hall. | We, therefore, recommend the latter, offering certain more spec ific suggestions below. We believe the site suggested for the Auditorium in our report I 1 of 1915 a good one, but objections to it have been pointed out by the Presi- j dent mainly on two grounds: the possibility of annoyance by noises made by ! students in Wells Hall: and the fact that it would be dissociated from the j library,, with whieh he regards it as very important to have it closely asso— I ciated. j I iate removal of the greenhouses to a location east of Farm Lane, although j they should ultimately be moved in any case. It has the further economic disadvantage of requiring the immed— -. Experience elsewhere leads us to believe that the first objec- I I tion raised by the President to the Auditorium site recommended by us in 1915 ! is not serious, but the seoond involves a matter of academic policy on whicfi j we can only defer to his judgment. On the question of actually ineorporat- ! ing the Auditorium Library in one structure, how ever, we beg to point out I that there are three very serious complications JLn planning. First it would I make a very large building unit which would be difficult to- fit into a gen— j eral plan already sufficiently complicated by the locations of existing [ buildings.- Second, it might tend to restrict the freedom of the architect j in working out an architectural treatment logically and economically differ entiated for two structures of such radically different character as an aud- I itorium and library. Third, and most important, it would materially reduce I the flexibility of the library plan in regard to future extensions. Whatever library building the College erects with the appropriation now available, will unquestionably have to be enlarged in the course of a gener ic "" at ion xor two. Extension of the stack space, laterally or vertically or both, can readily be provided for, but if the experience of the last twenty five years with the libraries of educational institutions proves anything, it is that we cannot for see with any certainty the changing requirements for other facilities supplementary to the library nucleus, which consists \ of the stack and the catalogue and delivery rooms. The amount of general reading room space, and especially the amount and character of space needed for seminars .and class rooms and special study rooms accessible to the stack and of special libraries; the possible desirability of having other extensive collections of reference material, such as herbaria, and themeans of consult ing and using them,, closely associated with the literature of the subjecta to which they relate; all such uncertain factors make it extremely desirable \o .- have a college library, expecially the library of a technical college where research work in special fields may readily, develop,- so designed and so sit uated in relation to other buildings that future generations may have the ut most possible freedom in extending the building in several directions as their needs may dictate, and not merely by addition to the stack* Therefore, to block the possibility of .extension in one or more directions by attaching to the library an auditorium, which is by its nature not readily convertible to other uses, seems to us very inadvisable, if, it can be avoided without ser ious sacrifice of immediate and known advantages. In view of these considerations and of the strong preference ex pressed by the President for associating the auditorium with the library, we believe the best solution would be to place the former substantially on the site of College Hall, closely adjacent to the library but not so as to block its free expansion* In our report of 1915 we urged that the site of College Hall should not be used for a large modern building, because of the bad effect of such a building on the scale of the old. Campus to the north.- In saying this we had in mind structures of the type of the Agricultural Building and the En gineering Building. The Auditorium, while large in ground plan, will not be high. It does not require large window areas, and we see no reason why it should not be designed so as to look admirably in keeping with the scale and character of the old Campus, if erected on the site of College Hall. The situation is a beautiful one and it is as near the town and the car line as any site south of the main open space of the Campus. There is no thoroughly satisfactory site north of that space and to place it north would again dissociate it from the library, which must be fairly central to the working buildings. Therefore, we recommend the College Hall site for the auditorium as shown on the accompanying blo grees con— j ferred* cultural Journalism, his salary to be $2100*00, one-third to be paid by the College and two-thirds from Extension.Funds* , i On motion of Mr* Graham, the action of the Faculty and the Presi dent in conferring the following advanced degrees, was confirmed: Ruth Dorothy Uormington Stanley George Bandeen Poster Rudolph Henry Evelith Publow Harold Madison Jacklin Earl C* Sanford Irwin Thomas Pickfor.d Harold Sterling Bird Edmund Harrison Gibson Master of Science Master of Science Master of Science Chemical Engineer Mechanical Engineer Master of Forestry Master of Horticulture Master of Horticulture Master of Horticulture Dr.Bessey to attend meet-i- ing of Amer* Plant path*! L.E.:Tisdalej appointed -g-i time Bot* ,.'-. Asst* Dep. Apiary Inspectors appointed On motion of Mr* Woodman, the request of Dr* Bessey, approved by Dean Shaw, for permission to attend a meeting of the American Plant Patholo gists at Riverhead,Long Island, Ifew York, June 24th to 2Sth with expenses paid* was approved* On motion of Mr* Graham, Mr* L. E. Tisdale was appointed half time Graduate Assistant in Botany to begin September 1st* On motion of Mr. Doherty, the following persons, nominated Dep uty Apiary Inspectors by Mr* B. F. Kindig, State Inspector of Apiaries, were appointed: Vera Haskins I* C. House F. E. Jones Floyd Markham A. F. Mead 0. M. Wallace, L. C. Retan C D. Townsend Osseo Webberville Mendon Ypsilanti Battle Creek Burton jasper St* Johns A. E. Sharrow Orville Weese C *C *Chamb e rlain Ward Every F. G. Layer E. W. Redman D. B. Goodspeed Piymoutil Imlay City Romeo Manchester Unionville Ithaca Marcellus >Prof*Grover| i]and Miss F r a- zer to a t t e nd :Fed*Board of •Education at Indianapolis On motion of Mr. Graham, Prof* Grover and Miss Frazer were auth orized to attend a meeting of the Federal Board of Education at.Indianapolis with expenses paid from the Smith-Hughes Vocational fund* On motion of Mr* Woodman, Prof* R. H. Pettit or some one from thA Entomological Department, v/as authorized to attend a conference to be held Rep.from Ent* Dpt*to attend -conference | on European j Corn Borer* j Dean Shaw to attend meeting at Ohio Univ ersity*. . j some time during the stammer on the subject of the Europeans Corn Boxer*- On motion of Mr* Graham, Dean Shaw ?7as authorized to attend a meeting of the American Association of Agricultural College Editors to be held at the Ohio State University, June 2$th to 27th with expenses paid* On motion of Mr. Woodman, the following correction was made in Correction in • Hay minutes* the May minutes: In the resolution authorizing the Secretary to< issue a bond to the United States of America to cover stores received, insert after the word •Secretary" — *of the State Board of Agriculture, A. M. Brown*• j 1 I On motion of Mr • W a l l a c e, M r. H. W. Norton w as made Assistant 326.- the Director of the Experiment Station* '""''••'•' On motion of M r* Wallace, the matter of sending Miss Edmonds, or some one else representing the Home Economics Department, to the -meeting of the National Home Economics Association at Blue Ridge, N .:C », was referred p*W;.Kort.6n|^: jmad^/Jtss'ti^o} Director ;Ex|i^ ;Stationr.^;;';: to the President with power to a c t. On motion of M r. Woodman, the expense accounts of the Board Mem-, bers were approved. On motion adjourned. --•I [Mr.. Dohertyij | to initial ll I vouchersi-.>. p".K.s:adoaikys:j resignation ' accepted - C.E.Guhder- json h is sue-' jcessor.. I 1 'ffl m jEU.se. Meech:-* a\ [salary L C F e a s e d. in^ y.m •ill I Mes"srs;.'T,e2tl jnant & •RayW^jta t o . r e —r;a j i i er ft.ain. p r e s e nt jr6ssidenc.es> g - f r a v /. Sxp*; ; to be - p a id ;. I Mr. N i c h o . l -1 \ s o n. ' ". '-••' #0n motion of Mr. Graham, Mr. Doherty was authorized to initial- to. vouchers for May. ' , M / @ ^ M_ - Secretary MEETING 05» THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE• President's Office July 16th, 1919 11:00 o'clock P.M. Present, President Kedzie, M e s s r s. Wallace, Waterbury, Doherty and Woodman. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved without reading. On motion of M r. Wallace, the resignation of M r. J. K. Kadonsky, County Agent, Gogebic County, w as accepted and M r. C. E. Gunderson w as a p pointed to succeed h im at a salary of $ 2 ^ 0 0 . 0 0. $1200.00 to he paid by the College, and the. balance by the county, the appointment to take effect July f i r s t. *~ On motion of M r. Doherty, the salary of Miss Maud Meech w as made $2000.00 beginning July 1 s t, and the Secretary w as authorized to employ all necessary help to properly take care of the work in the office. On motion of M r. Woodgian, M r* Baldwin w as requested to give to M r. C. B. Smith, the facts relating to the Kadonsky c a s e. On motion of M r. Woodman, authority w as given M r. Tennant, M r. R a- viler and Mr» Ewell to retain their present residences while employed by the c College* On motion of M r. Woodman, one-half of the traveling expenses of M r. Nicholson while attending a meeting of the Secretaries of the various. Crop Improvement Associations of the Western States at S t. Paul on Ju^y 1 1, was. authorized to be paid by the College, and-Mr.-Baldwin w as given permission to pay the expenses of M r. Weston, in case he attended a conference called b3^ the Agricultural Department in reference to the transferring of sto-gk in the drought stricken areas, of the West to Eastern p a s t u r e s. On motion of M r. Woodman, the following resolution in regard to the Grayling Experiment Station w as adopted: