Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-27
TRACK TRAINER MINUS
Track Team Athletes Excited
Over Failure of Regents to
Provide One
FINISH THE MIDYEAR MEETING
Several Important Matters Decided by
Iowa University Board of Regents,
Besides Much Business of Minor Inn
acknowledgements Taken Until
April.
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Iowa City, Jan. 27.-The board of
regents Of Iowa University finished
their midyear meeting here last night
without making any provision for
track trainer. and track team athletes
are up in the air over the situation.
Professor S. H. Bush and Mr.. East
man have found it impossible to take
charge of the work, this season and
at the present time it is impossible to
tell what will be done. Other import
ant actions Of the board are us follows.
Accepted the resignation Of Profess
sor l.. G. Weld, as director of the
school of applied science, and appoint
ed Professor w. G. Raymond to fill the
vacancy. Opened bids for the moving
of the science building and referred
same to the building committee with
power to act. Provided for the formal
dedication of the new gymnasium and
announced the engagement of Judge III.
b.. Deemer of the supreme court of
Iowa as the orator of the occasion. In
vited the committee of the Iowa legis-
lature which is considering the idea of
a board of control for Iowa educational
institutions, to meet the board of reg
ents at the next regular meeting Of the
board, which will be held April /, 4, 5
and 6.
Employed Olmstead Bros, of Brook
lyn, Mass. landscape architects. to
perfect plans for identifying the cam
nd
Judge Emlin McClain to the position
of honorary professors of jurisprudence
of the Iowa College of Law. Received
the report Of Professor w. B. Raymond
of the committee which had charge of
the preparations of plans for the new
engineering building. His report was
illustrated by lantern slides showing
the arrangement of the engineering
buildings of the universities of Wiscon-
sin, Washington est. Louis Michigan,
Cornell Columbia, Radcliff, and Penn
sylvania. The plans We're accepted and
the committee instructed 10 proceed
with the work which will begin as soon
as the ground Is in a condition to be
worked. The secretary of the board
was instructed to sell the buildings
which now stand on the ground that
will be occupied by the science build
ings when moved.
Professor Teeters, now acting dean
of the school of pharmacy, was made
dean of the school. Fred Alden of Wa
terloo and J. w. Cogswell of Cedar
Rapids, were appointed intarns of the
homeopathic hospital. Professor Shi-
mex, of the department of botany, Of
fered to the university forty acres of
land near Iowa City, to be used for
experimental forestry work. The offer
was accepted. The board decided to
allow the students of the university to
use the gymnasium for social purposes
under the supervision of committee
of the deans. A committee was also
appointed to employ director for the
new gymnasium to take charge OF the
work as soon as the building is ready
for occupancy. Five hundred dollars
was appropriated for the hacteriologi-
cal department and about the same a
mount to purchase apparatus for the
college Of electrical engineering. The
hoard adjourned until April.