Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1914-1917)

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NOVEMBER MEETING, 1915

A communication was received from Professor Warthin
requesting additional assistance in the Department of Pathology in view of the action of the Regents (see page 265)
placing exclusively under the control of the Buildings and
Grounds Department an employee in the Medical Building.
Regent Sawyer stated that there would doubtless be requests
also for assistance in the laboratories of Histology and Anatomy. On motion of Regent Hanchett, these requests were
referred to Regent Sawyer and the Secretary, with power.
On motion of Regent Hanchett, the Board approved the
action of the Executive Committee in extending an invitation to the Michigan State Grange to hold its annual meeting in Ann Arbor next December.
On motion of Regent Hubbard, in accordance with the
recommendation of the Faculty -of the Colleges of Engineering and Architecture, the degree of Bachelor of Chemical Engineering was conferred upon George Judson Chertoff.
On motion of Regent Beal, following the recommendation of Professor Canfield and Dean Effinger the following
appointments were made: Frank L. Hager, Instructor in
Romance Languages, from October 21 for the remainder
of the University year, with salary at the rate of $I,ooo.
Emerson Christie, Instructor in Romance Languages, from
November I for the remainder of the University year, with
salary at the rate of $I,ooo. Harry C. Barnett, Instructor in
Romance Languages for the entire year I915-I916 (as substitute for Professor Talamon) with salary of $I,ooo. Jose
M. Hernandez, Assistant in French, three-quarters time, for
the University year I9I5-I9I6, with salary of $675.
A communication from Dean Vaughan notified the Regents that Dr. Benjamin P. Brodie, of Detroit, had presented
to the University for the Medical Building a portrait of the
late Dr. Zina Pitcher, one of the original members of the
Faculty of the Medical School and a former Regent. On
motion of Regent Sawyer, this gift was accepted with the
thanks of the Board to the donor.
On motion of Regent Clements, the Board directed that
the salary of Professor I. N. Demmon be fixed at $4,000,
as Professor of English Literature, with $5oo additional for