Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-21
MIDSUMMER MEETING.
Board of Regents Transacted Bus
ness of Some Importance.

Board of Regents Transacted Bus
ness of Some Importance.
Wednesday afternoon at O.
A. G. was held the mid summer
meeting Of the board Of regents
of the Agricultural College. Con-
siderable business of Importance
was disposed of, and the meeting
was in all ways harmonious. The
meeting began at 2::30 and did
not close until nearly six o'clock.
Roll call showed all members
of the board present save Judge
Cotton, of Portland, and Govern
or Chamberlain. The first bust
ness of the session was the read
ing of their reports by President
Catch of the college and J. K.
Weatherford president of the
board. These contained no fea-
lures Of special Importance, al
though both were found entirely
satisfactory. The financial re-
port was also read and found to
be gratifying to the board. All
accounts were in good shape.
A special committee, consist
ing of President Catch, J. K.
Weatherford and Regent Olwell,
was appointed to secure a pro-
fessor Of horticulture to fill the
newly created chair at O. A. C.
A. T. Irwin, Of Iowa, was recon-
mended for the place by the
department of horticulture at
Washington.
An apportionment OF salaries
was made from the experiment
and college funds.
R. C. Shepard, secretary Of the
college Y. M. C. A. and Mr..
Stone, state secretary, came be-
fore the board with a request
that the college give light, heat,
water and sewerage for the pro-
posed Y. M. C. A. building, for
the erection Of which $11, 900,
they said, had been subscribed.
The matter was referred to a
special committee, with power to
act, after the opinion Of the At
torney General shall have been
secured regarding certain rigths
in the matter.
Resolutions of coincidence were
adopted regarding the late Presi-
dent Bloss, and Regents Church
and KILN.
The matter was discussed and
the college decided to purchase
the 5 or 6 acre tract of land and
the residence property on college
hill now known as the Witty
combe home. The price to be
paid is $6, 900. Just what use is
to be made of the property was
not made apparent at Wednes-
days meeting.
A resolution. was introduced
asking DR.. Withycombe to resign
his position at O. A. C. within ter
days or stop his canvass for the
governorship. The resolution
was at once voted down.
The sum of $500 was voted fol
use in securing additional appa.
ratus in the mining department
/ C. L.. Proebstel was elected as.
sistant to Prof Fulton, and his
salary fixed at $3.50 per annum
& Harry Beard was elected as as
sistant in the mechanical depart
ment and director of the college
band, at salary of $3.50. He i:
} at present employed-at the state
Reform School.
The resignation of Prof. Mar
garet Smell was rendered, to taxi
effect in one year.
The office of armorer wa
} abolished, the work to be don
| hereafter by the students.
The board endorsed most heart
lily the Good Roads movemen
recently inaugurated here.
81 Salaries were raised as follows
Prof. Fulton from 81, ,284 to 81,
j 400; Prof. Tartar from $500 t
| $3.50, and the wages of Bert Pix
c lington from Is to 80 cents pc
a hour.
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