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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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546 Disbursements Shelling corn Balance BOARD OF TRUSTEES [October 26, $ 12.53 $2,532.17 Ludlow Farm Receipts Clover seed St. Joseph Farm Receipts Clover seed Oats Balance Total Receipts Total Disbursements Balance , ....$ 63.25 330-37 393-62 $3,030.32 12.53 3,042.85 $92.00 On motion of Mr. Carr, the action of Professor H o s i e r in leasing the St. Joseph farm was approved. RESEARCH GRADUATE ASSISTANTS IN ENGINEERING (15) A letter from Dean C. R. Richards including recommendations as to the designation of the research fellows in the Engineering Experiment Station. October 10, 1917 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois MY DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES : By action of the Board of Trustees on January 2^, 1907, ten research fellowships were established in the Engineering Experiment Station each with an annual stipend of $500 and with a tenure of two years. The action further provided that these fellowships be assigned only to graduates of technical schools of approved standing, and that they be accepted for two collegiate years, half of the time each year to be devoted to the work of the Station, and the other half to graduate study. The staff of the Engineering Experiment Station was authorized to recommend suitable candidates for these fellowships, and their appointment was to be made on the approval of the Faculty of the Graduate School and of the President of the University. Upon the recommendation of the Acting Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, four additional research fellowships were authorized by the Board of Trustees under date of March 9, 1915, making a total of fourteen such fellowships now maintained. These research fellowships are in a class distinct from the regular fellowships in the Graduate School, and it is a question whether we should continue to call the appointees to these positions, Research Fellows. In the Graduate School first-year graduate students of ability and promise are eli-
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