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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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PLYM FELLOWSHIP A N D SCHOLARSHIP APPOINTMENTS (27) A report of the appointments of Charles G. Rummel, 6608 Bosworth Avenue Chicago, to the twenty-first Plym Fellowship in Architecture, and Carl Ronald Bender, 906 North Lockwood Avenue, Chicago, as alternate; and of Richart L. Troxell, 4443 Ellis Avenue, Chicago, to the eleventh Plym Foreign Scholarship i,| Architectural Engineering, and Paul B. Holt, i n Forest Avenue, Riverside, Illinois as alternate.

This report was received for record.

HONORS PLAN (28) A recommendation from the University Senate that Section (c) of the Honors Plan adopted by the Board on May 17, 1924 (Minutes, page 478), be amended to read as follows: "Those seniors who are in the upper 3 % of their class in both junior and senior years shall be entitled to have their names inscribed on a suitable tablet, which shall be. cast each year as part of the observance of Honors Day. These tablets shall be displayed in some appropriate building, the number of tablets to be displayed depending upon the amount of space available and the expense involved, provided thai each year's tablet shall be displayed for at least four years. When a tablet is removed from display the names on it shall be inscribed in a book which shall be a permanent record of the University." The changes are shown in italics. It is more advantageous to display these tablets in the central section of the first floor corridor of the Library, where they will be viewed by many more people, especially students, and it is also desirable not to limit the number of tablets to be displayed. The change recommended is general and elastic enough to permit such changes from time to time as may be desirable. Of course when the present plan was adopted the new Library had not been built and the University Auditorium seemed to be the best place for the display of the tablets.

On motion of Mr. Barr, this recommendation was adopted.

REQUEST OF CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL COUNCIL OF AMERICA (29) Last February the Czechoslovak National Council of America sent each member of the Board a statement requesting the establishment of a chair of Slavonic languages at the University of Illinois. The same communication was sent to me. I appointed a committee consisting of Director P. L. Windsor of the Library, Chairman, Professor Charles Zeleny, head of the Department of Zoology, and Professor Jacob Zeitlin, of the Department of English, to consider this proposal and submit to me its recommendations. This committee has reported as follows: April 7, 1934 Acting President A. H, Daniels

D E A R PRESIDENT D A N I E L S :

Under date of February 27 you appointed the undersigned Committee to consider the establishment of a Chair of Slavonic Languages, and sent to us a memorandum relative to the establishment of such a Chair at the University of Illinois, prepared by the Czechoslovak National Council of America. We have as individuals consulted with a number of members of the faculty, and at our meeting together voted to submit to you the following statement and recommendations. Everyone is agreed that the study of the Slavonic languages and literatures is important, both culturally and practically. The importance of the scientific publications in these languages makes it desirable that training in them be available to our students. Considerable doubt, however, exists as to the demand for the study of any one of these languages by any considerable number of our students. Our best opinion is that that demand would not justify offering, for example, one year of study for beginners, four hours a week, in the Russian language or in the Czech language or in the Polish language, that first year's study to be followed by a second year of work. Moreover, the cultural and practical advantages of the study of a foreign language are, in our opinion, rather slight if based on less than a t least two years of study. For a student