Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1914-1917)

NOVEMBER MEETING
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN,
ANN ARBOR, November 24, I914.
The Board met in the Regents' Room at Io o'clock A. M.
Present, the President, Regent Leland, Regent Beal, Regent
Hubbard, Regent Clements, Regent Bulkley, Regent Gore,
and Superintendent Keeler. Absent, Regent Sawyer, who
later took his seat, and Regent Hanchett.
The minutes of the meeting of October 15 and 16 were
approved with certain corrections, as submitted to the members of the Board in proof.
The Secretary was called on for a report with respect
to control of bicycle riding on the Campus. On his recommendation, the Board directed the printing and posting of
the following notice on University bulletin boards and in
other proper places.
PUBLIC NOTICE
For many years bicyclists have been allowed the use of
the walks on the Campus of the University of Michigan, though forbidden the use of walks anywhere else
in the City of Ann Arbor. Owing to the increasing number
of pedestrians and owing to reckless selfishness on the part
of some wheelmen, the use of the Campus walks will necessarily be prohibited to wheelmen unless all cyclists cease 'to
disregard the fact that pedestrians have at all times a first
claim to the use of walks. This warning is issued with
a view to giving wheelmen a further, final chance to use
the walks without disregard of the rights of others. No
wheelman desirous of the privilege should himself disregard the rights of pedestrians or permit another wheelman
to do so unrebuked. The rights of pedestrians imply the
following cautions on the part of wheelmen: (i) No wheelman should at any time, even when walks are seemingly
clear, ride on a Campus walk faster than eight miles
per hour. (2) Wheelmen should not ride faster than a slow
walking gait at any "blind" corner or at the Engineering