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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S .

[March 9

THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT, OF TEACHING.

576 F I F T H AVENUE. NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 1909.

MY DEAR SIR—I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of Feb., 22, enclosing the extract from the minutes of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, in, which they request the admission of that institution to the accepted list of the Carnegie Foundation, and in addition the joint resolution passed by the Senate and House of the State of Illinois and approved by the Governor. These papers are all in due form and fulfill that part of the requirement which Mr. Carnegie imposed in the case of state institutions relating to the action of the trustees and representatives of the state and governor. The admission of the University is now a matter to be determined by the Executive Committee of the Foundation after full information as to the academic standards of the University and of the relations of its professional schools to it. All these matters I have no question are in a satisfactory status, but during the next six weeks several members of 'the staff of the foundation will visit the University in order to complete these details and formal action will probably be taken by the Executive Committee some time in May. Meantime, however, I think that the Executive Committee will be glad to grant customary retiring allowances to any professors in the University who may have had the required service and whom you may wish to recommend. I enclose for that purpose several of the blanks used in that connection, and beg that you will let me know at an early date whether you desire to make such recommendations at the end of the present year.' Very sincerely yours,

HENRY S. PRITCHETT.

President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 111. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY.

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2. Recommendation that the officers of the board be authorized to execute a contract for the hire of quarters for the School of Pharmacy of the University upon the basis of recommendations made by the Medical Committee. Keferred on motion of Mrs. Busey to the Committee on College of Medicine and School of Pharmacy with directions to report to the Executive Committee. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. 3. Proposition from the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the alteration of the present contract between the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the University of Illinois. Dr. Davison moved to accept the proposition of the College-of Physicians and Surgeons. The motion was lost by the following vote: Yeas, Messrs. Abbott, Davison and Grout, and Mrs. E v a n s ; nays, Messrs. H a t c h and Moore, and Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Busey; absent, Governor Deneen, Messrs. Blair, Crebs and Meeker. FURNISHING PHYSICS LABORATORY. 4. Letter from Professor Carman endorsed by the Supervising Architect, asking for the assignment of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) from the appropriation for the erection of the Physics Laboratory, for various items connected with the building.