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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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APPOINTMENT OF DR. J. H. BEARD AS HEALTH OFFICER

(32) A recommendation that Dr. Joseph Howard Beard be appointed Health Officer of the University at a salary of $2,000 a year from September 1, 1916, with such duties as may be assigned to him by the President of the University. Dr. Beard's duties under this appointment will be essentially those which he has performed during the past year, namely the examination of such students as may be referred to him for medical examination, the examination of applicants for Civil Service positions in the University, and of persons connected with the University service in regard to whose continuous good health the University has special interest, as the employees in the dairy department, etc. This is carried in the Budget.

This recommendation was approved.

E X H I B I T AT CIVIC EXHIBITION IN PARIS

(33) A request from Director Patrick Geddess, of the Civic Exhibition at Paris, that the University take part in this Exhibition. Professor White suggests that the most useful exhibit would be our small-scale blueprint plans of the buildings. These should be bound into a presentable volume with a sheet before each set of plans containing photographs of exterior and interior views of the building. Professor White estimates that it would cost about $100 to prepare such a volume. I recommend that two volumes be prepared, one for the Civic Exhibition at Paris and one for our own University Library.

On motion of Mrs. Henrotin, this recommendation was approved. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Carr, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Ward, Miss Watson; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Small, Mr. Trevett.

F I F T I E T H ANNIVERSARY OF T H E UNIVERSITY

(34) The following statement: The Board has authorized the formal celebration in the year 1918 of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the opening of the University. The exact time of the year for this celebration has not yet been fixed. We should cooperate with the State Centennial Commission appointed to conduct a state-wide celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the admission of Illinois to the Union, which falls in the same year. I have suggested to that Commission that they set aside a week for the celebration, perhaps the third week in October, and indicate one of these days as the celebration day of the University, so that this event can thus become a state-wide affair of importance, linked up with the general state celebration. The Board has authorized the preparation of a history of the University and Dr. B. E. Powell is at work on this history. He will probably have one volume: completed by January, 1917. This will be rather a monuhiental work and it is probable that Dr. Powell will not be able to complete thb work entirely so as to Have it printed iri advance of the celebration, but in