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Show sheets is practically down to date. (2) To recommend to this Board that the Faculty Committee be authorized to prepare and report to this Committee a schedule increasing the reSpective salaries of the Faculty approxi- mately twenty per cent, the payment of the increased salaries to be.contingent upon our financial condition. Respectfully submitted", (Signed) Waldemar Van Cott, Chairman, Regents Committee on Faculty Relations. ------------- Regent Van Cott moved that the first recommendation be, adOpted. Passed. Regent Bamberger moved that the second recommendation be addpted. Passed. At this point Regent Van Cott arose and presented to Chairman Riter the diploma certifying that the degree of LL.D. had been conferred upon mr. Riter at the last Commencement. Mr. Van Cott expressed the following sentiments. Mr. Riter,-mDuring your long and varied career in numerous activities you have been known, primarily, as a man of action. Your friends, however,.know you to possess more than the ordinary mental accomplishments. Men who have reached your age have, as a rule and unjustly, been besmirched with suspicion or charges of unfairness or dishonesty. Raving known you since I was a young man I never once, from that time to this, have heard a whiSper tending to impeach your honesty or loyalty. You have held official positions conferring honor upon you, and you have always honored such. I assert that the degree does not add to the honor already attained,but it acts as a testimony of that honor. You have rendered long and efficient service to the University. That service alone did not earn the degree, but it was your service combined with your qualities of character and mind. For these reasons the Board thought you Therefore, as a ere well deserving of this honorable degree. ember of the Board of Regents and at the request of Dr. Widtsoe, take pleasure in presenting to you this written evidence of he degree heretofore conferred upon you by the Board of Regents." M_¥ |
