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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

PURCHASE OF GLASSWARE

[November 19

(9) A report of the approval of a requisition for the following purchase: From A. Daigger and Company of Chicago a supply of pyrex laboratory glassware for the General Chemical Stores amounting approximately to $2,350. (This is a non-competitive item, and the order was given this company because of the service they are able to render.)

This report was received for record.

COMPTROLLER'S REPORT OF CONTRACTS

(10) The following report from the Comptroller of contracts executed since the last report:

CONTRACTS EXECUTED BY THE COMPTROLLER

OCTOBER 17, 1932 TO NOVEMBER 14, Amount to be received by the University $3,000 1932

Cooperative research agreement executed in accordance with gift reported to the Board of Trustees in their meeting of October 21, 1932:

Name Illinois Canning Company Date October 4, 1932 Purpose Cooperative investigation of sweet corn and other vegetable crops

The Illinois State Board for Vocational Education to pay regular fees to the University for instruction to be rendered as follows:

To Whom Russell Nesbitt Instruction in College of Engineering Date October 26, 1932 Tenure One year from September 20, 1932

This report was received for record.

RESOLUTIONS OF ILLINOIS PRESS ASSOCIATION

(11) A report of the Building Committee of the Illinois Press Association, with resolutions adopted by that body: REPORT OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE To the Officers and Members of the Illinois Press Association: Your committee on new building for the School of Journalism at the University of Illinois was originally appointed on November 22, 1930. It has had numerous meetings and has continued to function and has sought at all times to carry on under the commission given it by this Association. An extended report of the acts and doings of the committee was made to the Association in October, 1931. That report was approved, the committee was authorized to continue, and the president of the Association, the secretary, and the chairman of the Executive Committee, were added to, and made a part of, the committee. Since then the members of the committee have met together from time to time. They have conferred with the University authorities, including President H. W. Chase and the architect, Professor James M. White. The special committee of the Trustees, as well as the other members of that body, have manifested interest in our appeal. We believed that the ground work was thoroughly laid for the incorporation of an adequate sum for a School of Journalism Building into the regular budget to be submitted by the University authorities at the 1933 session of the General Assembly. But general economic conditions went from bad to worse. There was a growing belief among the members of your committee that possibly an appeal for an appropriation next January would be unwise. A meeting of the members of the committee was held in Springfield. The chairman of the committee also communicated with each member who found it impossible to attend that special session. We met together, we discussed the subject at length, we took into consideration the views of the absent ones, and then by unanimous vote we adopted the following resolution: