Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1932 [PAGE 613]

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E. H. Sargent and Company $1 503 37 Central Scientific Company 134 02 Chicago Apparatus Company 78 10 Owens Illinois Glass Company 46 10 W . M . Welch Scientific Company 132 80 Rascher and Betzold 617 80 A. Daigger and Company 217 80 Anaconda Wire Company 14 75 Wilkens Anderson Company 163 97 Schaar and Company I 542 83 Goodrich Rubber Company n o 22 on the basis of quotations secured from all concerns interested in supplying such equipment. T h e orders were placed on the basis of the lowest price in each case, quality and suitability of material considered. 3. Test rails for the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and the Inland Steel Company in accordance with the plan for the cooperative investigation of test rails. The cost will be charged to the special fund for this investigation. This report w a s received for record. CLASS OF 1907 LOAN FUND (20) On December 15, 1931 (Minutes, page 494), the Board authorized the Comptroller to accept subscriptions to a student loan fund which the Class of 1907 planned to raise for presentation to the University at its twenty-fifth reunion in June, 1932, and to hold such funds subject to further action by this class. The formal offer of this fund will be made by the class today, and I recommend its acceptance. Subscriptions to the fund total about $4,500, of which slightly over $3,000 in cash has been received. One of the contributions to this fund is a hundred dollar five per cent debenture bond of the Associated Gas and Electric Company, due October I, 1068, received from Mr. R. L. Baker with the suggestion that it be held until i may be sold at an advantageous price. The bond is registered and has been t transferred to the Comptroller who requests authority to accept it for the purpose indicated and to have it transferred to the Board of Trustees. This fund w a s accepted and the Comptroller w a s given authority as requested. PORTRAIT OF DEAN EMERITUS EUGENE DAVENPORT (21) A recommendation that a portrait of Dean Emeritus Eugene Davenport which will be formally presented to the University at its unveiling this afternoon be accepted. This portrait is by Mr. Sidney E. Dickinson, N.A., of N e w York, and has been made possible by subscriptions of alumni, present and former members of the College of Agriculture, colleagues in other institutions, personal friends and associates, and various citizens of Illinois. This portrait w a s accepted as recommended. GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY (22) The following report of gifts received by the University since the last report: From Dr. Fred C. Zapffe, of Chicago, a gift of 171 volumes of medical books and a collection of surgical instruments to the College of Medicine. From the Pan-American Union in Washington a collection of 62 volumes, 382 unbound volumes, and 384 pamphlets in the generalfieldof Latin American literature, history, and affairs. From Eli Lilly and Company the sum of $1,000 for research work in physiological chemistry at the College of Medicine. From the American Bridge Company, $204, and the Universal Atlas Cement Company, $238.48, for the cooperative investigation of reinforced concrete arches. of Dresden china for the Museum ofCrandon Avenue, Chicago, a large piece From Mrs. Pearl Silberman, of 6940 European Culture, in memory of her