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Premises & Accommodation

Whereas there is pressing need for boarding accommodation for the students of the College and whereas sufficient accommodation cannot nor be had.
That it be the sense of the Committee to take steps to relieve this need and that a committee of three be appointed to have under consideration a plan to secure such relief and report to the Board at a meeting to be held three months hence.
Com appointed:
Mrs. Tydlett, Lynch, Vann, Leaborough, Holgood

The following report is received and the Secretary is ordered to thank Dr. Coyle for his faithful and very efficient work.

"To the Board of Trustees."

Endowment

In accordance with your action authorizing a loan of $2000 to go on canvass for real endowment, we have secured all available signs in certain most important cities to the extent of the Treasurer having cash and notes $41,655. We are in sight of enough additional subscriptions to carry the total beyond $50,000.

My expenses for traveling & postage have been $243.25.

I desire also to report in connection with the temporary —

At the urgent request of our committee in June last, I was instructed to return to Louisiana for which we then had subscriptions of fair degree, and after the third vacation the canvass was resumed, raising $2399 of $5000 of which is yet paid. This will in the opinion of the Finance Committee be the measure of the result of those Louisiana subscriptions shall have thus paid the sum raised by me for the temporary account of commissions paid by the