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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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in storing any coal after our heating seasons begins. I am, therefore, in favor of making an immediate contract for 10,000 tons of lump coal which we would put into storage during the summer. If possible I should like to keep this intact throughout the winter but have it as a reserve. I believe we can easily hold it for two or three years if we can secure our regular demand aside from it. This raises the question of the location for storing coal. W e could find space east of Goodwin Avenue along the track but it would take a very large area and would necessitate giving up the tennis courts we have there and as I should like to make it a permanent storage, I feel that it would be interfering with the possible building development of the College of Engineering. We have been handling coal into and out of storage without economical equipment for doing so. It seems to me that the time has come for us to make some permanent arrangement and I am trying to obtain an option on a site for the purpose, upon which I hope I may be able to report the first of next week. Yours very truly,

J A M E S M. WHITE

Supervising

Architect

On motion of Mr. Ward, authority was given to the Executive Committee to make contracts for coal and also to purchase ground to be used as a storage place for coal. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Taggart, Mr. Ward, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Carr, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Trevett.

INTERCOLLEGIATE INTELLIGENCE BUREAU (19) The following statement: At the call of the University of Pennsylvania, the delegates of a number of universities in the United States met in Washington in February in conference with the Secretary of W a r to consider plans for canvassing the available resources of the country—defensive and offensive—in case of a foreign war. As a result of that conference, the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau was organized with the idea of persuading each university to organize a W a r Intelligence Bureau, the function of which would be to find out to what extent the members of the faculty, students, and alumni of such institutions would be available in case of need. I appointed H. W . Miller, Assistant Dean of :the College of Engineering, as the Adjutant of this Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau at the University, and have asked him' to submit a plan of procedure. Dean Miller proposes to send out to all the alumni of the institution, and to the students, a letter asking them to fill out a blank indicating in what kind of work they would be qualified or willing to contribute their services, in case the nation called for them. There is no obligation to volunteer, or to enlist. The classification of these reports would place the Bureau in a position to inform the W a r Department immediately, on request, how many among the alumni and ^ttidents have indicated their ability or willingness to per-