Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914 [PAGE 257]

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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"There is no doubt, however, in my mind as to the desirability of increasing your appropriation. The amount and quality of your work justify almost any request, but the great question is where is the money to come from. Congress has just refused to increase our appropriation for next year. The demands on all sides are becoming more and more imperative. It was only by cutting down other work that the small increase was made in your appropriation for last year. I say this simply to show the difficulties in the way of the increase which you desire and which I very much wish you might have." "Both Dr. True and I appreciate your work and we both hope1 for increased appropriations in the future which will make it possible for us to do more to aid you." "I have been looking over your manuscript this morning, and I am convinced that the bulletin will be both interesting and valuable, and I hope we shall be able to get it out very soon." "It was somewhat of a strain last year to increase your appropriation to $1,500. This was done because we thought you so thoroughly deserved it and because your work is so useful, and we wanted to do everything possible to encourage your work, yourself in its prosecution, and the University in its support." "Nothing but an unusual high estimate of your work would have led to the increase in your appropriation last year. To keep it even at the present level would involve sacrifice elsewhere." "I have been. so much occupied preparing for an European trip that I have had but a moment to glance over your manuscript, although I have been hoping to find the opportunity to look it over in more detail. Dr. Langworthy and Mr. Milner have been oyer it, however, and we are all agreed in thinking that it is an extremely good bulletin. It shows evidence of having been put together with much care and thought, and Dr. Langworthy says of it, "It is a piece of work of which any man might be proud." JJI am glad that you have been able to complete your work so satisfactorily and promptly this year and am fully convinced that the bulletin I am publishing will be a valuable addition to the series describing your investigations." "We are very much interested in the work you are doing and appreciate its value, as well as the interest you take in it and the disadvantage you have had this year. You have done a large amount of most excellent work in proportion to the funds allotted to you." "I am glad that you are ready to conduct the investigation with such painstaking detail and to conduct it year after year, by. doing this making each year's work better than the last. I believe the investigation will become one of high scientific, as" well as intensely practical, value. Your University is allying itself with abstract truth. It is in advance of most others in allying itself likewise with the interest of the home and the home maker, through its Department „of Domestic Science. Others are with you, many others I believe will follow, and the outcome will be education, inspiration and uplift." Quotations from letters relating to bulletin 158, "Relative Economy, Composition and Nutritive Value, of the Various Cuts of Beef": Dr. A. L. Winton, of the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry, wrote: "I thank you for the copy of bulletin 158, which I value because of its scientific as well as practical importance." Professor M. W. Howard, Simmons College, Department of Household Science: "I am extremely interested in it. * *, * The illustrations are exactly what I have been looking for, and I feel that this bulletin will be invaluable." Professor M. E. Jaffa, University of California, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Chemistry: "This is to acknowledge with many thanks, copy of bulletin 158. * * * I am more than pleased to have this little pamphlet. * * * The bulletin represents a large amount of good work, and certainly it is a valuable contribution to our knowledge on the subject: The practical data that it contains can well be utilized in the home. Complimenting you on the bulletin, I am, * * *" Dr. J. B. Lindsey, Vice Director and Chemist of the Department of Plant and Animal Chemistry of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station: "I acknowledge with many thanks the copy of your bulletin on the chemistry of the different cuts of beef, etc. It is exceedingly interesting, and furnishes a large amount of data, which cannot help being useful both in a practical arid scientific way." Professor J. E. Morton, Head of the Department of Animal Husbandry, State Agricultural College. Colorado, wrote: "I thank you for the copy of Bulletin 158. You have done mighty valuable work in getting it out. There should be a great deal more of the Fame class of work done at the different .stations. * * * The University of Illinois is to be congratulated on the.bulletins they have put out during the last two years. I believe they contain more valuable, material than any coming from other institutions." ,.!../ Dr. M. Dorset, Chief of the Biochemic Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture, wrote: "I have seen a copy of the recent Bulletin No. 158. I have not, however, received one myself. Inasmuch as the work contained therein is of great interest and importance to us, I would be under many obligations if you would have a copy sent to me." Elizabeth C. Pierce, New York: "I want to thank you ever so much for the bulletin on meats. It is perfectly splendid and exactly what I wanted. Thanking you again for your kindness." In an editorial reproduced from the Journal of the American Medication Association, in the Scientific American. Supplement, dated December 28, 1912, the following was stated: "The facts cited indicate how the; retail prices of beef cuts are determined chiefly by considerations other than, their; food, value. * * * It is high time that those purchasers to whom matters of justifiable economy make