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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[December 19,

ASSIGNMENT OF ROOMS TO STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS. (6) A recommendation that the Council of Administration be given authority to assign rooms from time to time, as the demands of the University may permit, to student organizations for terms not longer than one year on such conditions as the council may establish. This recommendation was approved. The Executive Committee adjourned.

W. L. ABBOTT, FEED L. HATCH,

Executive

Committee.

APPOINTMENTS MADE BY T H E PRESIDENT OF T H E UNIVERSITY. The secretary presented the following report of appointments made by the President of the University to fill vacancies in the budget passed on July 5, 1912: Burton, Samuel C , Instructor in Architecture, at a salary of one hundred twenty dollars ($120) a month, beginning November 12, 1912, and continuing until June 30, 1913. (December 2, 1912.) Carson, H. Y., Assistant in Architectural Engineering, on half time, and Assistant in the Office of the Supervising Architect, on half time, beginning December 1, 1912, and continuing until further notice or until June 30, 1913, at a total salary for the two positions of one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125) a month. (November 27, 1912.) Ebersol, E. T., Graduate Assistant in Chemistry, beginning December 7, 1912, and continuing until June 30, 1913, at a salary of thirty dollars-($30) a month. (December 9, 1912.) Frazier, Mollie, Stenographer in the Department' of Zoology, on two-thirds time, a t a salary of thirty-three and 33-100 dollars C$33.33) a month, beginning November 1, 1912, and continuing until further notice or until June 30, 1913. (November 30, 1912.) Manley, Verna A , Temporary Stenographer in the Office of Professor E. W. Washburn, for one month beginning December 4, 1912, to be paid at the rate of 30 cents an hour, the total compensation for the period named not to exceed twenty dollars ($20). (December 14, 1912.) Munn, Margaret M., Stenographer in the Department of Mining Engineering (on the work of the Cooperative Investigation of Illinois Coal Problems), afc a salary of fifty dollars ($50) a month, beginning when she reports for duty and, continuing until further notice or until August 31, 19i3. (November 12, 1912.) Radcliffe, Barney S., Assistant in Ceramics, for ten months beginning September 1, 1912, at a salary of eighty dollars ($80) a month. (November 27, 1912.) Ricketts, Clara Agnes, Order Assistant in the - Library, at a salary of sixty dollars ($60) a month, beginning November 9, 1912, and continuing until August 31, 1913. (November 9, 1912.) White, Lida E., Catalog Typist in the Library, for ten months beginning November 1, 1912, at a salary of fifty dollars ($50) a' month. (November 9, 1912.) Yensen, Trygve D. (formerly Assistant in the Engineering Experiment Station a t a, salary of one hundred dollars a month), Assistant in the Engineering Experiment.Station and Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, at a salary of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) a month, beginning November 1, 1912, and continuing until further notice or until August 31, 1913. (November 27, 1912.) FLORICULTURAL GREENHOUSES: CONTRACT WORK LET. FOR CONCRETE

The secretary presented the following letter from Professor James M, White, Supervising Architect, reporting that, under the authority given by him on June 13, 1912 (pp. 101-102), he had let the contract for the foundations and other concrete work for the Agricultural greenhouses to Mr. C.'J. Welch, for the sum of two thousand fifty-six and fifty-three one-hundredths dollars ($2,056.53). This letter was received for record.

URBAN A, I I I . . , December 11, 1912.

Mr. G. M. .McConn, Secretary of the Board of Trustees. DEAR SIR:' I wish you would record in the minutes of the board the fact that the contract for foundations and other concrete work for the floriculture green 7 houses has been let to Mr. C. J. Welch, contractor for similar work on the vegetable and plant breeding greenhouse, for the sum of two thousand fifty-six and 53-100 dollars ($2,056.53). This contract was let to Mr. Welch without competition ori" the same unit price for which the vegetable and plant breeding work was executed, first, because