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BOARD O F TRUSTEES

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one year beginning April 5, 1931, with the Commercial Casualty Insurance Company of Newark, N e w Jersey, represented by Beers and Beers Company, Champaign. The present insurance expired on April 5. Bids were invited from all persons interested and this Company and Agency offered the lowest proposal. This report, together with a schedule of the quotations received and information concerning the insurance companies, is submitted for record. This report was received for record.

APPROVAL OF VARIOUS PURCHASES

(13) A report of the approval of the following purchases, amounting to $1,000 or over, since the last report was made to the Board: 1. Five thousand copies of Soil Survey maps of Schuyler, Jasper, Washington, and Clinton Counties for the Department of Agronomy from the Eastern Offset, Inc., of Baltimore, Maryland, the low bidder, at a price of $3,210, f.o.b. Urbana. 2. A supply of Pyrex laboratory glassware for the General Chemistry Storeroom (to be charged out to Chemistry and other departments as requested by them) from the W . M . Welch Manufacturing Company of Chicago, amounting to approximately $2,400. 3. A car of lumber from the T. A. Foley Lumber Company of Paris, Illinois, at a price of $1,435, f.o.b. Urbana. (This material is used in repair work at the Physical Plant and is charged out from the Physical Plant Storeroom to appropriations for that work.) 4. One thousand tons of coal from the Western Fuel Company of Chicago, at a price of $6,100, for the Chicago departments (old buildings) for the year beginning M a y i, 1931. 5. Seven additional articles of equipment for the Department of Physics from the Spencer Lens Company of Boston at a price of $4,287.25. (This equipment includes a Hilger Glass Spectograph, Comparator, Slit, Diaphragm, Quartz Prism with lens and mounting, 30 60 Prisms, and Achromatic Lens.) This report was received for record.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY

(14) The following report of gifts received by the University since the last report: 1. From Dr. F. B. Earle, formerly a member of the faculty of the College of Medicine, a gift of ninety-five volumes and two pictures of interest, one a portrait of himself, to be kept at the Medical Library. 2. From the Whiting Corporation of Harvey, Illinois, a steel pedestal worth approximately $400 to be used in the investigation of testing thin cylindrical shells as columns carried on in cooperation with the Chicago Bridge and Iron Works. 3. From the Bell Telephone Company, certain lead-covered telephone cables, worth approximately $350, to the Department of Electrical Engineering. These cables will make a valuable addition to the equipment in the electrical communication laboratory of the Department. 4. From the American Medical Association a grant of $150 to aid in the study of microscopic changes in the bones and teeth under the influence of anterior lobe hypophysis. 5. From Messrs. Robert W . Johnson and Leo Burk, graduates of the College of Law of the University, a crayon portrait of Gladstone. 6. From Dr. Frances S. Turley of Los Angeles, California, forty-eight volumes of books, a set of the American Journal of Roentgenology, and a collection of X-Ray plates and reprints for the College of Medicine. This report w a s received for record.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION TO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

(15) A recommendation from the faculty of the College of Medicine and the University Senate that the following changes be made in the requirements for admission averageAof applicant, whether or its the attained 1932: pre-medical work, a scholastic tions1.College of Medicine, effectiveequivalent as of Illinois, or the other instituto theof recognized standing, must have University determined byfrom University of n not less than 3.5, from September, in his