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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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26o BOARD OF TRUSTEES [March 13, electrical efficiently authority to cover forth services of a certain kind, as, for instance, those which an engineer, or a mechanical engineer, or a civil engineer, might most do. It is estimated that it will cost about $350 to make this canvass. I recommend that the President of the University be given to carry out this plan, and that an appropriation of $350 be made the necessary expense. On motion of Miss Watson, this recommendation was approved, by the following vote: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Iienrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Taggart, Mr. Ward, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Carr, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Trevett. AMERICAN AMBULANCE ORGANIZATION IN FRANCE (20) A request from Mr. C. Gross, a junior in the College of Agriculture, for permission to organize a campaign to solicit funds and services in connection with the American Ambulance Organization behind the lines of the armies of France. The sentiment of the Board was to the effect that, owing to the threatening aspect of foreign affairs at the present time, it would not be well to undertake a propaganda of the sort indicated in which the name or resources of the University should be enlisted in any way, or in which the name of the University should be used, without a definite consent from the State and National Government, to which the University of Illinois as a state university, supported in part by federal endowments, has peculiar relations. It was also felt that it was highly probable that the American service in France will be summoned home, and that it would not be desirable to take any steps that would embarrass our own Government. STORES SYSTEM (21) A letter from the Comptroller in regard to the storeroom facilities of the University: • March 12, 1917 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois DEAR PRESIDENT J A M E S : For several years we have been maintaining and gradually increasing and enlarging the storeroom facilities of the University. T h e development has been quite gradual and has extended over a considerable period of time, and I do not believe that a formal authorization for the; procedure now in force has ever been fully given by the Board of Trustees. The nearest that we have come to such an authorization is the approval on June 30, 1916 (page 819), of the establishment of a Stores Fund of $35,000. T h e present method of handling stores and stores accounts is briefly as follows: W e purchase through the Purchasing Department, on the basis
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