Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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i9l7] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 297 lowships be made for the year 1917-18, supplementary to the list already approved (See Minutes, April 4, 1917, page 284). ANIMAL HUSBANDRY C. H. Ficke Scholarship $250 BOTANY ENGLISH ENTOMOLOGY GERMAN PSYCHOLOGY H. C. Burgess John Monteith, Jr P. H. H. E. N. Landis G. M. Crawford Solomon S. Nichol Scholarship Scholarship Fellowship ..Fellowship Scholarship Scholarship 250 250 35° 300 250 250 ZOOLOGY Florence S. Hague These appointments were approved. Fellozvship 350 PHARMACY LOAN FUND FOR WOMEN (7) An offer of the Women's Organization of the Chicago Retail Druggists Association, through Mrs. Joseph R. Forbrich, to establish a loan fund in the School of Pharmacy for the benefit of women. The amount at present is $115. It is proposed to lend this money to some young woman in need of assistance to finish her course in pharmacy on her written promise to repay the loan within two years after she leaves the School. On motion of M r s . Evans, t h e President of the University was given authority to accept this loan fund, to be administered on the conditions imposed. RESIGNATION OF DR. CASEY A. WOOD (8) The resignation of Dr. Casey A. Wood as Professor of Ophthalmology and Head of the Department of Ophthalmology in the College of Medicine. This resignation was accepted with an} expression of regret and of appreciation of the services rendered by D r . W o o d to the University. A V I A T I O N T R A I N I N G CAMP (9) The following statement: I have received notice from Washington that Illinois has been chosen as one of the six universities at which aviation schools will be organized by the Federal Government. The plan is still very inchoate. Until Congress passes its final legislation, definite action cannot be taken. At present it appears that the Government would expect the University to offer certain instruction by members of its staff to persons sent to the University to take [raining in the theoretical and scientific aspects of aviation. The Government will give any additional equipment which is necessary to this instruction. The students will stay from two weeks to eight weeks, according to their own state of knowledge, making an elementary study of gasoline engines, meteorology, map making, etc. The University is requested to send three men to Toronto for a certain length of time to acquaint themselves thoroly with the conditions of giving effective instruction. It is assumed that the Federal Government will pay the expenses of these men and per-
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