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UNIVERSITY ^OF ILLINOIS.

[Feb. 8,

On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, the President of the University was authorized to grant this request, provided satisfactory arrangements are made for Prof. Pease's work during his absence.

R E A D J U S T M E N T OF PROF. BAGLEY'S W O R K .

(5) A request from Prof. W. C. Bagley, Director of the School of Education, for a readjustment of his work and salary during the second semester of the present academic year, similar to the arrangement which was made last year, whereby he may be released from tlie undergraduate work and some of the routine details of the office, but may continue as head of the Department of Education, directing its policy and carrying on his regular work with graduate students; and in view of this readjustment relinquish half of his salary for the second semester of the present academic year, amounting to $1,375.

On motion of Mr. Carr, authority was given to the President of the University to make such a readjustment.

T E S T S OF CAR W H E E L S .

(6) A letter from Dean W. F . M. Goss, enclosing a proposal from the Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels to cooperate with the Engineering Experiment Station in the study of the proper design of such wheels; and also a letter from George W. Lyndon, President of the Association, approving the plan: January 22, 1916. President Edmund J. James* University of Illinois. developing new questions affecting the weight and the contour of chilled iron car wheels. Changing methods in manufacture also operate to affect the strength of such wheels. The importance of securing proper design and proper methods of manufacture for such wheels may be judged by the fact that there are now in operation in this country approximately twenty million freight-car wheels, and that the demand for renewals alone involves the manufacture of not less than two and one-half million wheels a year. With these facts in mind, the Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels, as represented by Mr. George W. Lyndon, President and Treasurer, has agreed to cooperate with the Engineering Experiment Station in a study of questions fundamental to the proper design of such wheels. To this end the association has set apart a considerable sum of money for the use of the Engineering Experiment Station under the following conditions: 1. That the Engineering Experiment Station will undertake an investigation, concerning the stresses and behavior of chilled iron car wheels under prescribed conditions, the details of the work to be determined by the Station in conference with the Association's Consulting Engineer, Mr. F. K. Vial. That all results secured from such an investigation shall be the property of the Experiment Station. They may be published as Station bulletins or otherwise, as from time to time may be determined by the Director. Prior to any publication, however, the intention of the Director shall be formally communicated to the Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels in order that said association may at all times be informed as to the purpose of the Station. The results also shall at all times be open to the inspection of the representatives of the Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels, who may be assumed to act in an advisory capacity to the Station. 3. That the funds of the Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels are to be drawn on for all costs of labor and supplies arising from the proposed investigation. If equipment is required in excess of that already available to the Station, it will be provided a t the expense of the association. The Station will supply the time of members of its staff for the direction of the work, and the use of such facilities as it may already possess. 4. That on the approval of these proposals the Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels will a t once transmit to the business office of the University the sum of $500 as an initial deposit, and each month thereafter will transmit such sum or sums as may be called for by estimate Of the costs of the investigation for the month next succeeding. Funds thus supplied are to constitute a credit on which the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station may from time to time draw , to cover the costs of the proposed work. It will be the purpose to maintain, during the lifetime of this agreement, a balance in this account entirely sufficient to meet all charges that will need to be made against it. 5. That this arrangement will continue in effect until cancelled through the definite action of one or both of the parties in interest. The Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels has been influenced in making its proposal through its appreciation of the contributions already made by the Engineering Experiment Station in the field of railway equipment. Work already done by our Department of Railway Engineering and by our Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics constitutes the foundation for that which is now proposed. Prof. Talbot and Prof. Schmidt are already in touch with the problem, and its fuller development will be under their general direction. The cooperation proposed guarantees to the Station the strongest possible assistance in the developmnt of an investigation of great importance to the public weal. . This statement as formulated has been accepted by Mr. George W. Lyndon, President of the Association of Manufacturers of Chilled Car Wheels, as certified to by his letter to me submitted herewith. I hope that you also will approve the arrangement. I have the honor to be Very truly yours, W. F . M. Goss.

MY DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES : Progress in the a r t of railroading is continually