RESOLUTIONS xxix 



New York State Board of Regents 



Abstract from the Journal of a Meeting of the Board 



OF Regents of the University of the 



State of New York 



Held in the State Education Building, Albany, 



October 21, IQ13 



The Board of Regents of the University of the State of 



New York met in the Regents' Chamber in the Education 



Building, Albany, at 10 a. m., October 21, 1915, pursuant to 



a call duly sent to each Regent as provided by law. 



The meeting was called to order by Vice Chancellor 

 Vander Veer. 



The following Regents were present: Vice Chancellor 

 Albert Vander Veer, Regents Chester S. Lord, William 

 Nottingham, Francis M. Carpenter, Abram L Elkus, Adelbert 

 Moot, Charles B. Alexander, John Moore and Walter Guest 

 Kellogg. The President of the University and Commissioner 

 of Education was also present. 



The Vice Chancellor reported an excuse for absence from 

 Chancellor Sexton, which was voted satisfactory. 



IN MEMORY OF REGENT SHIPMAN 



Vice Chancellor Vander Veer read a letter from Chancellor 

 Sexton as follows : 



October 20, 191 5. 



The Honorable Albert Vander Veer, 



My Dear Vice Chancellor: 



It will not be possible for me to attend the meeting of the 

 Regents to-morrow, and I respectfully request them to excuse 

 my absence. 



You will have just returned from the funeral of our de- 

 parted brother, Regent Shipman, whose death has made us 

 all very sorrowful. To the tributes which will be paid to him 

 by the Regents and entered in their Journal, I would like 

 to add an expression of my own great regard for Doctor 

 Shipman. 



My acquaintance with him has been short, having begun 

 with his entrance into our Board, and our official relations 



