05-29-1923
Volume OE - Pages 345-346
                  353-354

                         Reno, Nevada
                         May 29, 1923

The Regents met in the Office of President Clark on Tuesday,
May 29th, 1923, at 10 o'clock A.M.  There were present Regents
Pratt, Hood and Talbot, President Clark and Comptroller Gorman.

The minutes of the meeting of May 15th were approved by the
following vote:

    Mrs. Hood            Aye
    Judge Talbot         Aye
    Mr. Pratt            Aye

List No. 5, Regents Checks Nos. 3033 to 3041 inclusive, for the
net sum of $38,017.59, and List No. 5, State Claims Nos. 49 to
58 inclusive, for the net sum of $22,265.40, were approved, on
motion of Judge Talbot, by the following vote:

    Mrs. Hood            Aye
    Judge Talbot         Aye
    Mr. Pratt            Aye

President Clark recommended that Mr. Lewis E. Rowe be re-elected
Instructor in Music at a salary of $2250 for the year beginning
September 1, 1923.  Mrs. Hood made the motion.  Vote:

    Mrs. Hood            Aye
    Judge Talbot         Aye
    Mr. Pratt            Aye

President Clark recommended, on the recommendation of Director
Doten, that the salary of Professor George Hardman be increased
$120 per year, from $2700 to $2850, beginning July 1, 1923,
the increase to come from Agricultural Experiment Station funds.
Judge Talbot moved the adoption of the President's recommenda-
tion.  Vote:

    Mrs. Hood            Aye
    Judge Talbot         Aye
    Mr. Pratt            Aye

President Clark recommended, on the recommendation of Directors
Doten and Records, that the salary of Dr. Lyman R. Vawter be
increased $300, $150 to come from State Veterinary Control funds
and $150 to come from Experiment Station funds, increase to be
effective July 1, 1923.  Mrs. Hood moved the adoption of the
President's recommendation.

Judge Talbot moved that the matter be passed until the next
meeting, when a full Board might be present.

President Clark recommended that the student fee be increased,
upon the request of the Associated Students, from $6 per semes-
ter to $6.60 per semester, the extra 60 cents to entitle each
student to a semestral paid subscription to the new University
Quarter, The Desert Wolf.  Mrs. Hood moved the adoption of the
President's recommendation.  Vote:

    Mrs. Hood            Aye
    Judge Talbot         Aye
    Mr. Pratt            Aye

President Clark read a portion of a letter from Mr. Elmer L.
Shirrell, Chief of the Rehabilitation Division of the Veterans
Bureau, with headquarters in San Francisco, quoting parts of a
report made to him by the officials in charge of the Univer-
sity of Nevada unit of Veteran Bureau men commending the Uni-
versity for its share of this work of rehabilitation.

Mrs. Hood brought up the matter of drinking in Lincoln Hall.
President Clark read a letter from Professor A. E. Turner,
in charge of the Hall, reporting conditions at the Hall and
elsewhere in the town in respect to the drink evil.  General
discussion followed.

Adjourned.

                             Walter E. Pratt
                             Chairman

Carolyn M. Beckwith
Secretary