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A Gift To The U. Of M.

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
April
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
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A GIFT TO THE U. OF M.

$10,000 Toward a Woman Professorship.

GIVEN BY A DETROIT LADY

To Be Used When The Fund Amounts to $35,000. 

To Employ Some Woman of Acknowledged Ability to Teach Anything Excepting Athletics.--Athletics Are Barred.

Another gift has been made to the university. A generous Detroit lady who prefers to remain unknown has given $10,000 towards establishing a chair in the university to be filled by a woman professor, with conditions attached. One of the main conditions is that she shall not teach athletics.

The regular monthly meeting of the board of regents of the university was held Tuesday. Present were Regents Farr, Kiefer, Fletcher, Lawton, Dean and Cook. The resignation of Prof. Clarence G. Taylor, superintendent of the shops of the mechanical laboratory was received and accepted. A donation of two spirometers for the use of the gymnasiums, from the National Spirometer Co., were acknowledged and a vote of thanks given. On motion of Regent Fletcher six fire-extinguishers were ordered to be bought. The superintendent of grounds were ordered to arrange the cement walks around the law department in an artistic manner in harmony with the building.

A communication from a woman of Detroit who wished her name to remain unknown, was read presenting the university with $10,000 to be invested until it with other gifts amounts to $35,000, to be used to endow a chair be occupied by some woman of acknowledged ability. No limit was placed on what the chair shall be, excepting that it shall not be the teaching of athletics. The gift was accepted under the conditions.

Prof. Francis W. Kelsey was allowed the sum of $25 to hang pictures at present not in position.