UCCSN Board of Regents' Meeting Minutes
09-25-1909
Volume OD - Pages 152-158
Reno, Nevada
September 25, 1909
The Board of Regents met at their Office at the University at
9 o'clock A.M. Saturday, September 25, 1909. There were present
Regents Sunderland, Henderson, Codd, Williams and Sullivan, and
the President of the University.
The minutes of the meeting held September 3, 1909 were read and,
upon motion, approved.
President Stubbs read his report to the Board as follows:
September 25, 1909
To the Honorable
The Board of Regents
of the University of Nevada
Gentlemen:
I have the honor to present my report of the proceedings of the
University to September 25, 1909:
The enrollment of students is as follows:
School of Liberal Arts
Seniors 13
Juniors 6
Sophomores 9
Freshmen 17
Specials 15
Graduate 1
Total 61
School of Mines
Seniors 7
Juniors 7
Sophomores 4
Freshmen 7
Specials 10
Total 35
School of General Science
Seniors 2
Juniors 0
Sophomores 4
Freshmen 8
Specials 2
Graduates 2
Total 18
School of Mechanical Engineering
Seniors 4
Juniors 5
Sophomores 6
Freshmen 6
Specials 7
Total 28
School of Civil Engineering
Seniors 1
Juniors 2
Sophomores 1
Freshmen 6
Specials 3
Total 13
School of Agriculture
Seniors 1
Juniors 1
Sophomores 0
Freshmen 4
Specials 3
Total 9
Normal School 17
Domestic Science Specials 4
Sub Total 185
High School
Boys 54
Girls 56
Grand Total 295
Enrollment of Men 104
Enrollment of Women 81
Total 185
I nominate Mr. Dwight B. Huntley to be acting Professor of Mining
and Metallurgy from October 1, 1909, to May 31, 1910 at a monthly
salary of $175. The Regents have already given Professor George
J. Young a leave of absence from the first of October, 1909 until
the first of August, 1910, to pursue his studies in this country
and in Europe.
Professor Peter Frandsen has asked for a leave of absence from
November 1, 1909 to August 1, 1910 to pursue his studies in this
country and in Europe. He will accompany Professor Young part
of the time. I recommend that he be granted this leave of ab-
sence at 1/2 of his usual monthly pay while absent.
I nominate Dr. A. C. Hern, recently teacher of the Biological
Sciences in the San Jose High School as acting Professor of
Biology during Professor Frandsen's absence, his salary to be
$1050 or $150 per month for the 7 months.
Dr. Oscar P. Johnstone, Assistant in the Hygienic Laboratory, is
here and began work on the 20th of September.
I recommend an additional insurance of $5000 in all to be placed
upon the apparatus and equipment in the Biological Veterinary
Science and Hygienic Laboratories. There have been many valuable
instruments in these 3 Laboratories, and at least this much ad-
ditional insurance should be placed upon them.
In my last report I made mention of an act of vandalism by some-
body upon the base of the Mackay statue. I am glad to report
that we have been able to remove the marks upon the base of this
statue and have restored it as it was originally. I am inclined
to the opinion now that this was done by two students of either
the Freshman or Sophomore classes without the knowledge of their
co-classmates. The indignation of the College was so great and
the determination to help in finding the perpetrators of this
act, that I felt we could safely leave the care of the property
after all to our students. Therefore, I have not employed a
night watchman, and will not employ one unless in the future it
should seem to be necessary. It probably would be well to place
a guard over this property at the beginnings of each year.
We need the entire second floor of Stewart Hall for the accommo-
dation of the high school. After frequent conferences with the
high school faculty, it seems clear that the efficiency of the
high school students would be increased at least 25% if we had
room properly to take care of the high school students. The
room in the southeastern corner of Stewart Hall is occupied by
the Young Women's Christian Association, an organization which
is doing good work for its members and which should be encour-
aged. I have been unwilling to disturb them unless I could find
some place about the University to accommodate them even better
than they are now accommodated and I now suggest the following
arrangement:
Let us build an annex to the Hatch Station for its use as a
Station Library, this annex to be 30 feet wide and 25 feet long;
build it of brick with fire walls up one story to the height of
the belt course of the Hatch Station, putting 3-ply building
paper, coated with hot tar and gravel, the building to be fin-
ished in the best manner. I have had a bid for such a building
as I have described for $925. Messrs. Clock and Shea will build
it for this amount although they do not make very much upon the
contract. I can pay for this Library building in the course of
time from the Hatch Fund, and it is so desirable to make this
improvement immediately that I ask the Regents to approve it.
Then we can put the Young Women's Christian Association in the
northwestern corner room upon the first floor of Stewart Hall,
which is better for their purpose than the room on the second
floor, and they will be very much pleased with this change.
I regret to announce to the Regents the death of Mildred Inez
Brown, daughter of Superintendent Richard Brown and wife on
Tuesday, September 21, 1909, at 5 minutes past 1 o'clock P.M.
Her illness was of less than a week's duration, and she un-
doubtedly died from peritonitis and not from the effects of the
operation on her appendicitis. She was conscious before she died
and bade not only her parents, brother and sisters, and family
friends who were around her goodbye, but sent her goodbyes to the
boys and girls of the University, and especially to the boys of
Lincoln Hall. We closed all of the recitations upon the news of
her death and they remained closed until after the funeral, which
took place on Thursday, September 23, 1909, at 2 o'clock in the
Gymnasium. It was essentially a College funeral, and students,
faculty and friends gathered in the Gymnasium to pay their last
tribute of respect and follow the remains with the family to
the cemetery.
Mildred Inez Brown was a Senior in the College of Arts and Sci-
ence, was widely beloved throughout the University, was helpful,
efficient in everything that pertained to the interests of the
University, was a leader among the students in every kind of
good work, was an ardent worker in the Young Women's Christian
Association and a member of the choir of the Episcopal Church.
Reverend Samuel Unsworth, Rector, had charge of the funeral
service and was assisted by Bishop Robinson and Reverend C. L.
Mears of the Congregational Church.
I herewith submit the payrolls and the claims on the State and
A & M Funds for the month of September, 1909.
I remain,
Very respectfully yours,
/s/ J. E. Stubbs
President
Upon motion of Regent Henderson, seconded by all the Regents, it
was ordered that the following Resolution be spread upon the min-
utes of the Regents' meetings and a copy of the same transmitted
to Mr. and Mrs. Brown.
RESOLVED, that the Regents of the University of Nevada have
heard with very deep regret the sorrow that has come to
Superintendent Richard Brown and wife by the death of their
beloved daughter Mildred Inez Brown. We know that the de-
parture of this beloved daughter has brought to the hearts of
these parents a grief so poignant and a burden of sorrow so
heavy that only an unalterable faith in the everlasting kind-
ness of a Heavenly Father and the comforting teachings of His
Word as to the future life can assuage their grief and enable
them to bear their burden with some degree of cheerfulness
and courage.
At the time of her death Mildred Inez Brown was a Senior in
good standing in the College of Liberal Arts in the Univer-
sity of Nevada. She was a leader in all student activities.
She was one of the first among the members of the Young
Women's Christian Association -- a work in which she fully
believed for the advancement of the young women of this Uni-
versity, and to which she gave much of her time.
She left an ineffaceable impress upon the College life and,
upon the College students, and in her young life of 20 years,
she crowded as much good work as is usually done in a life-
time of 70 years, so that, after all, we must measure her
influence by her deeds rather than by her years.
By the Board of Regents
/s/ John Sunderland
Chairman
/s/ Geo. H. Taylor
Secretary
On motion of Regent Sullivan, seconded by Regent Williams, it
was ordered that $5000 of additional insurance be placed upon
the apparatus and equipment contained in the Biological, Bacter-
iological and Veterinarian Laboratories in Hatch Station, and
that two policies of $2500 each be given -- one to the Henderson
Banking Company of Elko and the other to Peck and Sample of Reno.
On motion of Regent Sullivan, seconded by Regent Codd, the Pres-
ident was authorized to have built, according to the plans and
specifications submitted by Clock and Shea, an addition to Hatch
Station for Library purposes, at a cost not exceeding $925.
The following claims were allowed:
State Fund
September Payroll $ 3,105.19
September Student Payroll 275.45
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 1.40
Daniels & Steinmetz 51.75
Riverside Studio 16.00
Porteous Decorating Company 4.30
Cann Drug Company 7.00
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 7.85
Braun-Knecht-Heimann 89.59
Bausch & Lomb 53.40
Bausch & Lomb 70.44
Grand Rapids Furniture Company 76.33
Self & Sellman 2,215.00
A. F. Hatvey 65.00
Cambridge Entomological Club 1.00
G. E. Stechert 9.05
Bennett's Magazine Agency 26.82
A. C. Mc Clury 250.00
Nevada School Journal 16.00
Nevada State Journal 5.25
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company 3.90
Scheeline Banking & Trust Company 650.00
E. W. Martin 196.30
John Breuner 5.10
John Breuner 24.75
John Breuner 45.00
J. E. Stubbs 74.10
Self & Sellman 3.00
Self & Sellman 30.00
Self & Sellman 139.00
Porteous Decorating Co. 7.65
Bausch & Lomb 207.70
L. A. Brown 14.40
Reno Printing Company 10.15
Reno Printing Company 8.10
Self & Sellman 300.00
Self & Sellman 800.00
Reno Traction Company 8.00
Red Cross Drug Company 3.30
Red Cross Drug Company 3.30
M. C. Lilley 4.28
Byron Mauzy 9.33
Self & Sellman 35.00
Cann Drug Company 144.30
Salaries for September 116.67
Clock & Shea 5,775.07
Beebe & Wagner 7,269.00
Clock & Shea 517.56
C. F. Weber 30.60
Fred J. Fischer 4.50
Richard Brown 129.50
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 1.65
T. W. Cowgill 50.00
Charles E. Lydia 100.00
A. W. Holmes 22.25
Bonham Realty & Trust Company 54.00
Total $23,145.18
A & M Fund
September Payroll $ 2,823.16
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 186.51
Eimer & Amend 630.85
Nevada Hardware & Supply Company 37.78
Central Scientific Company 234.78
Central Scientific Company 259.43
Eimer & Amend 78.73
Eimer & Amend 141.60
Nevada Transfer Company 7.50
General Electric Company 130.50
Reno Mill & Lumber Company 26.60
Union Lumber Company 2.50
Westinghouse Electric 129.80
Nevada Engineering Works 10.75
Self & Sellman 12.00
Self & Sellman 5.05
Self & Sellman 16.00
Total $ 4,733.54
No further business appearing, the Board adjourned to meet at
the call of the Chairman.
Charles B. Henderson
Acting Chairman
Geo. H. Taylor
Secretary