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1911]

PROCEEDINGS OF T H E BOARD OF TRUSTEES. P L A N S FOR N E W ARMORY.

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At this point President James introduced Professor J . M. White, supervising architect, a n d Mr. Wensel Morava of. Chicago. Professor White presented tentative plans for the new Armory, and discussed also the location of this building. ' President James presented the following additional m a t t e r s : ADVANCE ON RENT, COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. 1. A letter from D. A. K. Steele, President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, asking that the Board of Trustees of the University advance, if possible, before July 1, 1911, five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) on account of rent to be paid upon the property occupied by the College of Medicine at the University. I t was moved that this request be granted, and that an appropriation of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) be made for the purpose. This motion was passed by the following vote: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Bahrenburg, Mrs. Busey, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Moore; noes, n o n e ; absent, Mr. Anthony, Mr. Blair, Mr. Deneen, Mr. Meeker. RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR J. P. BROOKS. 2. A letter from Dr. W. F. M. Goss, dean of the College of Engineering, transmitting the resignation of Mr. J. P. Brooks as associate professor of civil engineering, to take effect Sept. 1, 1911, with the recommendation that this resignation be accepted. I t was voted t o accept Professor Brook's resignation, to take effect Sept. 1, 1911. EXCHANGE OF LECTURES WITH JAPAN. 3. A letter from President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, concerning the possibility of establishing an exchange of representative lecturers between the United States and Japan, as follows: Columbia University in the city of New York.

PRESIDENT'S ROOM, May 22, 1911.

President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois, Vrbana, III.:

DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES—Mr. Hamilton Hqlt, Editor of the independent,

has for.some time been carrying on correspondence with representatives of the government of Japan, ;n reference to the possibility of establishing an exchange of representative lecturers between the United States and Japan. The object of such exchange is to give to each people a better knowledge of the other, and to help build up a public opinion that will resist all attempts to arouse unnecessary antagonism between Japan and the United States. The government of Japan has just now signified formally its hearty approval of this undertaking, and it proposes that the exchange shall be commenced in October of the present year, and continued statedly thereafter. The suggestion is that the first lecturer shall be sent from Japan to be in residence in the United States during the academic year 1911-12, and that for the following year (1912-13), a lecturer shall be sent from the United States to, Japan. It is contemplated, therefore, that in each alternate year Japan will have a representative in the United States, *and in the intervening year the United States will have a representative in Japan.