Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918 [PAGE 721]

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spent in actual examination. The total cost of this work for the examination of 404 students was $340, no overhead charge being made. On motion of Mr. Carr, the President of the University was authorized to provide for a physical examination of all students, male and female, registered in the University, for the first semester of the academic year 1918-19, and to require this examination of all students. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR BOGART (5) A request from Professor E. L. Bogart for leave of absence on onehalf pay for the year 1918-1919, recommended by Dean David Kinley, head of the Department of Economics, and approved by Dean N. A. Weston of the College of Commerce. These leaves of absence are granted as a matter of routine, so far as it is possible to do so, to members of the staff, who have served for seven years, for the purpose of further study. Professor Bogart intends to offer his services to the Government in the National Defense, and to give the time not occupied in this work to further study and preparation for his University work. On motion of Mr. Carr, the President of the University was authorized to grant this leave of absence, if he finds it possible to make arrangements for Professor Bogart's work.

COMMERCIAL TESTS

(6) A letter from the Comptroller concerning regulations governing commercial tests made by members of the staff of the University: February 27, 1918 President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois

MY DEAR PRESIDENT JJAMES :

For some time, there has been a considerable demand for certain kinds of commercial testing work, particularly in various departments of the Engineering College. With the exception of the work in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, where a regular experimental staff is permanently engaged for this and related work, no very well defined plan of procedure has been developed. I have found in one department or another, where requests for this kind of service have come in, that such requests were handled in a variety of ways, almost always involving some financial procedure and rarely being handled by this office. I also found that the University was not receiving proper remuneration for the use of its facilities, equipment, or materials, and that there was a very hazy method of procedure regarding the service done by individuals privately and that done by members of the University as University assignment. I have taken the matter up with Dean Richards and with the heads of the departments of the College of Engineering, where the problem is most pronounced. We have worked out a proposed set of regulations governing such work, which make provision for the various contingencies, so far as we are able to discover them, as well as for the protection of all interests involved.