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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[July 21,

works of this kind it is quite common to get the first volume or two out before the celebration and the others after the celebration. Mr. Allan Nevins is at work on a one-volume history of the University which will be published by the Oxford University Press in the series of American universities. I have no doubt that Mr. Nevins will make an interesting volume. He expects to have this manuscript completed so that the book can come out in the year 1917 in preparation for the Centennial year. We have just printed the first edition of the University of Illinois Directory. It has been a very troublesome task and the first edition has, of course, the errors which one would expect in such a work. The Directory has attracted considerable attention among the alumni and the general public and 1906 copies—sixty-five of these gifts and exchanges—have been disposed of up to July 21, 1916. An addition of this Directory should be issued certainly once every ten years and perhaps once every five years. Aside from the Directory, the University has printed the Alumni Record which undertakes to give a brief biography of every person who has taken, a degree from the Urbana departments of the University. The last edition was printed in 1913. I recommend that the President of the University be authorized to issue in the year 1918 a new edition of the Alumni Record along essentially the same lines as the editions of 1906 and 1913.

On motion of Mr. Carr, this recommendation was concurred in.

APPROPRIATION FOR SEMI-CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE

(35) The following statement: In pursuance of authority given me by the Board, and on request of the University Senate, I appointed a committee of the Senate on the Semicentennial Celebration, consisting of Professors H. J. Barton, J. C. Blair, C. R. Richards, and W. G. Hale. This committee requests that the sum of $5,000 be appropriated for expense in connection with the celebration. They do not undertake to limit themselves to this amount, but they think it necessary to have this amount at their disposal if they are to accomplish any useful service. They are thinking of presenting a pageant representing the history of the University and in this case it will be necessary to get someone competent in such matters to prepare the text and organize this feature of the celebration.

On motion of Mrs. Busey, the sum of $5,000 was appropriated to the uses of this committee. The vote was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Carr, Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Henrotin, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Ward; no, Miss Watson; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Small, Mr. Trevett.

T E R M AND FEES IN T H E SCHOOL OF PHARMACY

(36) Certain recommendations as to the School of Pharmacy: 1. That the beginning and ending of the term be made the same as of the departments of Medicine and Dentistry of the University, from about October j to commencement day of the following year.