UCCSN Board of Regents' Meeting Minutes
09-03-1909
Volume OD - Pages 145-152
Reno, Nevada
September 3, 1909
The Board of Regents met at the University at 9:30 A.M., Friday,
September 3, 1909. There were present Regents Sunderland, Codd,
Henderson and Williams, and the President of the University.
Absent, Dr. Sullivan.
The minutes of the meeting held July 2, 1909 were read and, upon
motion, approved.
President Stubbs read his report to the Board as follows:
September 3, 1909
To the Honorable
The Board of Regents of the
University of Nevada.
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to make my report of the University for the
two months ending August 31, 1909.
According to our schedule, we opened the University on Monday,
the 23rd of August. As is usual, the students are coming in
slowly. The following is the registration to date:
Women Men
Normal 13 Normal 0
High School 45 High School 36
Specials 8 Specials 17
Post Graduate 1 Post Graduate 1
Seniors 10 Seniors 9
Juniors 6 Juniors 10
Sophomores 9 Sophomores 14
Freshmen 16 Freshmen 28
Total 108 Total 108
Total to Date - 216
The probabilities are that we will enroll this term about 250
students, which is equal to our enrollment of the last 2 or 3
years, but not any in advance of it. We have received in answer
to the advertisements in the papers probably from 400-500 in-
quiries. In answer to these inquiries we have sent registers
and in many cases letters. The direct results are not yet ap-
parent, but from 5-10 students have been received as the direct
result of the advertising that we have done. In addition to
this, we have sent personal letters either through the office or
through the students in California and Nevada to the number of
perhaps 480, and we have received a few students from that ef-
fort. The greatest gain in our attendance this year is in the
class of students and the work they are doing. For example, 7
students have entered the Agricultural course, and you may rest
assured that we will never fall below this number in the future.
It marks the beginning of a campaign for this Department of the
University that we shall continue very actively. Then the stu-
dents in Latin and Greek are in excess of the number in these
branches in previous years. We have had 2 or 3 students in Greek
in the last 15 years, but there are now some 19 students in this
Department. So from the character of the attendance we feel very
much encouraged and we believe that the attendance is the proph-
ecy of better things in the future, especially as soon as certain
social conditions in this State and in Reno cease. I reiterate
that perhaps none of us appreciate the weight of the influence
which the social conditions in this town and State exert against
every effort on our part to secure students for our University.
And the best that we can do is to keep our faith and our courage
and wait patiently for the change in the social conditions and
the increase in our attendance which will follow.
The following is the telephone contract for the University which
I submit to you for your approval. The telephones will be in-
stalled about the first of October. In this arrangement there
are telephones in every building so that I can call up any of
the Professors from my Office or they in turn can call me up,
or one another. This system will connect with the town system
for, I think, about 8 phones, which can be changed from one
building to another as occasion may require. I have taken great
pains to get a reasonable price and I think I have succeeded. I
went to the City and direct to the General Manager and talked
over with him what we wanted. I said further that the University
could not afford to pay the usual toll for the use of the phones
and the switchboard. He gave me a rate which I think is very
liberal. They will furnish phones, switchboard and keep them in
repair, charging us as follows:
For 2 out-going trunk lines $ 8.00
For 2 in-coming trunk lines 6.00
20 phones 10.00
1 switchboard 5.00
Total $29.00 per month.
The switchboard will be placed in the Registrar's Office and at
all times be under our control. I ask your approval of this
contract.
I had a conversation with Mr. Campbell, senior member of the Law
Firm of Campbell, Metson and Campbell of San Francisco on last
Saturday in Carson City, and he said that he had secured $400,000
in bonds for the University of Nevada, and that he would give me
the full details of it by letter in a few days, so that I can
submit the matter to the Board of Regents. It seems that these
bonds were issued by the State of Mississippi during the Recon-
struction Period and they have been rendered legal by that State
and by the action of such States as hold the bonds, of which
Nevada is one. Mr. Campbell spoke with assurance that we would
get $400,000 in bonds and perhaps more, and said that he would
like me to accompany him to New York about the first of October
and look into the matter. I will keep the Regents advised, for,
if this is a fact and is not a mere figment of the imagination
of a hard-headed lawyer, it will be a great gain to the Univer-
sity. I have planned to go East the last day of September to
attend the inauguration of President Lowell, which falls upon the
6th day of October, attend a meeting of the National Association
of State Universities which occurs on the 8th and 9th of October
at Cambridge, then go to New York to meet Mr. Mackay by appoint-
ment. If I can do so, I shall attend the inauguration of Ernest
Fox Nichols as President of Dartmouth College at Hanover, New
Hampshire, on the 14th of October. It would be well for the
Regents to take action, giving me leave of absence during the
month of October for the purposes of this trip.
I have proposed to Mr. Mackay that he, with his friends, be here
on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd, and possibly the 24th, of October.
Professor Young has prepared the Mining Exhibit for the Univer-
sity and has installed the exhibit at Goldfield ready for the
Mining Congress. I suggest that Regent Codd place an insurance
of $300 on this exhibit for as much time as it is at Goldfield.
I attended a meeting of the Association of Agricultural Colleges
and Experiment Stations at Portland on the 17th, 18th and 19th
of August, and then spent 2 days at Seattle on the 20th and 21st,
visiting the Exposition. The arrangement of the grounds, the
floral display, the exhibits presented by the United States Gov-
ernment, Alaska, Hawaii and California are especially fine, al-
though all of the other exhibits are very good. I am sure how-
ever, that the University made no mistake in declining to send
an exhibit of minerals to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition.
The display in the Mining building is not nearly so creditable
as some of the other exhibits and we could not have responded
to the request of the Publicity Committee at the late date that
they asked us to make the exhibit with justice to our State or
our University.
I received a letter under date of August 27th from the Nevada
Hardware and Supply Company, C. J. James, Secretary, asking
that the amount of $567.20 be allowed at this meeting. This
is a claim for interest on the amount expended by them for put-
ing in the Heating Plant, part of which they had to wait for
until after the last Legislature appropriated the money. I be-
lieve that the State does not allow interest on deferred pay-
ments and this bill having been made in the form of interest can-
not be allowed by the State. I said to Mr. James that I thought
I could find a way to pay this bill in some other manner than
that of regular appropriation, which the State would undoubtedly
refuse. I did not promise that we would allow this bill now.
In fact, I distinctly stated that I recognized the justice of the
claim and that we would find some proper means to pay it, and I
will find some way to do this prior to the 31st of December.
There is one other old claim amounting to $144.97 of the Reno
Mill and Lumber Company which I also want to clean up.
I recommend that the Board of Regents now presents the claim of
Mrs. C. W. Friend for $2000 and puts it in charge of Regent
Henderson for collection.
I have received from the Board of Education acknowledgement of
the receipt of the 2 copies of the Treasurer's Report of the
University of Nevada for the year ended June 30, 1909, saying
they have been approved.
I have recently been appointed Guardian of the person and Estate
of Otto Hartung. This was done at Mr. Hartung's request as he
was getting so feeble and at times was so much disturbed mental-
ly that he was not fit to take charge of his business.
The Regents will remember that I reported some time since that
I had drawn up the last will and testament of Mr. Hartung, mak-
ing certain provisions with regard to his Estate and that I have
given him some attention for the last two years, and have also
transacted business for him. Although he has been in a sani-
tarium in California for a few years, yet he has always main-
tained that his residence was in Nevada and in Reno. It is prob-
able that he cannot live a great while. I receive reports from
the Doctor in charge of the sanitarium 2 or 3 times a week and
expect to go down to see him and Mr. Hartung on Saturday evening
of this week. The object of doing this for him and taking charge
of the Estate is two-fold: first, because it seemed to satisfy
him to have me look after his business, and in the second place,
by doing this work we will keep his bequests in this State,
which is very much to be desired.
The lease of the ground on which the President's house stands
expires on the 24th day of April, 1910. I herewith submit to
the Board of Regents a Resolution for the renewal of this lease
for 10 years from April 24, 1910.
I regret to say that we have had a grave piece of vandalism upon
the University grounds. There has been a contest between the
Freshmen and Sophomores for nearly a week past, although we have
given official sanction to a contest on tomorrow, Saturday, after
noon, September 4th. Nothing of a serious nature occurred and
nothing that would occasion any remark outside of the ordinary
life of the College until last evening, when the faculty were
gathered at my house for an evening reception, some person or
persons painted the pedestal of the Mackay statue upon three
sides. I had supposed that the Mackay gifts would be safe from
any species of vandalism and I have relied upon the personal
honor of all of our students to see that every interest of the
Mackay buildings, statue and quadrangle were maintained, but it
seems that I was mistaken.
As the Regents will remember, Mr. and Mrs. Mackay presented
Mrs. Stubbs and myself with a gold tea and coffee service after
their return to New York from the celebration of the events con-
nected with the giving of the Mackay Mining building and the
quadrangle to the University of Nevada. This service is very
valuable, so valuable that I have put it into the Bank, and so
beautiful and tasteful that we have had nothing in our home to
go with it in matters of entertainment. Last year I entertained
Mr. and Mrs. Mackay, the Regents, the Honorary Board of Visitors,
and some friends at the Riverside Hotel. This time I want to
entertain at my own home.
I submit herewith the salary rolls and the claims upon the State
Fund and upon the Agricultural and Mechanical College Fund.
Very truly yours,
/s/ J. E. Stubbs
President
STATE CLAIMS
A. C. Mc Clury $ 132.80
Mott Stationery Company 19.20
Reno Plumbing & Heating Company 2.52
Bennett's Agency 21.65
Library Bureau 158.52
A. C. Mc Clury 28.88
Buchhandlung Gustav Fock 1,345.20
Reno Power Light & Water Company 150.00
Beebe & Wagner 3,802.59
Clock & Shea 5,177.00
Troy Laundry Company 2.95
Eliza Overman 13.13
Peter Frandsen 100.00
Reno Ice Delivery 8.38
W. B. Mack 50.00
S. B. Doten 11.35
Harry Kelly 225.32
Grand Rapids Furniture Company 71.33
William Wagner 22.50
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company 7.35
Mott Stationery Company 28.85
J. D. Layman 2.50
White Company 30.25
Laboratory & Guarantee Fund 850.10
Reno Printing Company 101.75
Laboratory & Guarantee Fund 15.00
Bliss & Faville 200.40
Harry Kelly 91.00
Frank Blake Webster Company 4.06
Charles E. Lydia 108.00
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 6.80
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 9.35
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 75.00
A. C. Mc Clury 217.44
A. C. Mc Clury 3.25
Reno Evening Gazette 4.00
Mott Stationery Company 72.30
Reno Evening Gazette 28.50
Nevada State Journal 5.25
Mott Stationery Company 31.35
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company 6.00
Porteous Decorating Company 64.85
Reno Steam Laundry 3.75
The White Company 2.40
Porteous Decorating Company 1.00
Gordon H. True 143.50
E. Gibeau 130.00
Reno Evening Gazette 285.00
Self & Sellman 98.80
Patrick & Company 7.20
Eclipse Company 107.50
Eclipse Company 75.00
W. H. Blalock 156.75
Charles Ward 18.00
F. M. Payne 25.00
William Wagner 50.53
Riverside Studio 7.00
Reno Livery Company 10.00
Western Union Telegraph Company 26.75
Will U. Mackey 10.00
George I. James 255.00
Reno Mercantile Company 156.63
Reno Mercantile Company 7.45
Reno Mercantile Company 12.75
W. J. Luke 323.75
Kny Scheerer Company 167.00
Bausch & Lomb Optical company 851.62
Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance Co. 125.00
German American Insurance Company 125.00
Scheeline Banking & Trust Company 150.00
George H. Taylor 9.85
George H. Taylor 15.16
George H. Taylor 759.21
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company 264.34
Payroll for August 2,789.94
Total $20,487.46
A & M CLAIMS
The Leeds & Northrup Company $ 136.65
Nevada Hardware & Supply Co. 2.35
Reno Mercantile Company 4.05
Central Scientific Company 60.00
Keuffel & Esser Company 5.80
Riehle Brothers 1,650.00
Union Lumber Company 11.00
Porteous Decorating Company 3.05
A. Lietz Company 4.50
Mott Stationery Company 3.00
Reno Ice Delivery Company 1.25
Miller Lock Company 33.75
Braun-Knecht-Heimann Company 228.48
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 33.00
The Franklin Company 27.30
Payroll for August 2,709.16
Total $ 4,713.34
On motion of Regent Henderson, seconded by Regent Williams, the
following resolution relating to the lease of the President's
residence was adopted:
AND WHEREAS, the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada
did on the 3rd day of September, 1909, in meeting regularly
assembled duly pass, adopt and cause to be entered upon its
records the following preamble and resolution, viz:
WHEREAS, the State of Nevada, acting by and through the Board
of Regents of the Nevada State University, did on the 24th
day of April, 1900, execute and deliver to J. E. Stubbs, a
lease of those certain premises therein described, upon which
was subsequently built by J. E. Stubbs and others, the build-
ing and structures known as the official residence of the
President at an annual rental of $1.00 for the period of ten
years, with the right of successive renewals for the same
period upon the same terms and until all sums of money ad-
vanced by J. E. Stubbs and others, for the purpose of build-
ing and furnishing an official residence thereon for the
President of the University, have been repaid by the State
of Nevada; and
WHEREAS, no part of the sums so advanced by said J. E. Stubbs
and others, for said purpose and used in the construction and
furnishing of said official residence, have been repaid by
said State of Nevada, and said J. E. Stubbs has requested a
renewal of said lease in accordance with the terms and con-
ditions thereof.
NOW THEREFORE, IT IS RESOLVED by the Board of Regents of the
University of Nevada, in meeting regularly assembled, that
the President and Secretary of this Board be, and they are
hereby authorized, in the name and on behalf of the State
of Nevada, by and through the Board of Regents of the Nevada
State University, to execute and deliver a renewal of said
lease of April 24th, 1900, for a period of ten years at an
annual rental of $1.00 per year, with the right of succes-
sive renewals for the same period, and upon the same terms
and conditions as are contained in said lease of April 24th,
1900.
On motion of Regent Codd, seconded by Regent Henderson, the
President of the University was authorized to employ a night
watchman for the months of September and October at a salary not
to exceed $60 per month.
On motion of Regent Williams, seconded by Regent Henderson, it
was resolved that when this Board adjourned, they should adjourn
to meet Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock A.M., September 25, 1909.
On motion of Regent Henderson, seconded by Regent Williams, the
contract of the Telephone Company, as made by the President and
included in his report, was approved.
On motion of Regent Codd, seconded by Regent Henderson, the
President was allowed a special salary of $75 per month for one
year to take effect September 1, 1909.
On motion of Regent Codd, seconded by Regent Henderson, the
President was granted a leave of absence from September 29 to
October 29 as requested in his report.
On motion the Board adjourned to meet at 9:00 A.M., September 25,
1909.
John Sunderland
Chairman
Geo. H. Taylor
Secretary