Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 16 [PAGE 3]

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Sl'MMVRY OF M i l RI-TORT OF THE WAR C O M M U T E ! OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS* 1*H7-191S July 13, 19IH President E. J. JAMES Dear Mr. President: I beg to submit herewith the report of the activities of the War Committee for the University year just closed. DAVID KIN LEV, Chairman. The appointment of the War Committee was authorized by action of the Board of Trustees December 11, 1917. In accordance with this authority, the President of the University appointed a committee of seven, as follows: Dean Eugene Davenport, Professors S. A. Forbes, F. H. Newell, S. P. Sherman, C. A. Ellis, C. M. Thompson and the Vice President, Professor David Kinley, Chairman. This Committee requested the Governor of the State, Hon. Frank 0. Lowden, the President of the University. Dr. Edmund J. James, and the Chairman of the Illinois State Council of Defense, Hon. Samuel Insull, to permit the use of their names as honorary chairmen. They assented to this request. The following divisional committees were created: 1, Publication of leaflets and pamphlets; 2, Publicity; 3, Talks and lectures at the University; 4, Lectures through the state; 5, Collection of funds; 6, The University program for war purposes; 7, United States Savings Certificates and Loans; 8, Students' cooperation; 9, The University Service Flag; 10, University war service records; 11, War employment for people connected with' the University; 12, Military organization and exhibition; 13, Conservation and economy; 14, Legal advice to drafted men; 15, On the Literature of the War; 16, Women's War T belief and Red Cross; 17, American University L nion. PUBLICATION OF WAR LEAFLETS The following bulletins have thus far been published under direction of the war committee; most of them in editions of 50,000: The War Committee of the University of Illinois. Practical Suggestions for Food Conservation, by Prof. Isabel Bevier. Work — — - © , by Dr. ™*OT Wheeler War Garden, by Prof. J A rrogram in Food Production, by Dean Eugene Davenport. V\ar Legislation, by Dr. R. E. Cushman. Activities a n d MoraI Jame Leadership, by President Edmund J *The printed report is a summary of the report submitted to the President. 1