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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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744. BOARD OF TRUSTEES [June i, Third. Said lessor hereby agrees to maintain the exterior of the building and the existing heating and plumbing installations. In Witness Whereof, The said parties have hereunto set their hands and seals this day and year first above written. JAMES M. WHITE (SEAL) Trustees for the Illinois Union. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (SEAL) By Comptroller On motion of Mr. Carr, this recommendation was approved and authority was given to the Comptroller to execute and sign the proposed lease. FOUR-YEAR M I L I T A R Y CURRICULUM (10) A committee, consisting of Dean K. C. Babcock, Major E. W. McCaskey, Professor A. N. Talbot, Professor S. A. Forbes, Professor J. B. Shaw, Dean N. A. Weston, and Professor R H. Newell, Chairman, presented to the University Senate on March n , 1918, a report on a Four-Year Military Curriculum at the University, embodying the following recommendations : 1. That the present equipment of the University, both as regards instructors and material, be used as fully as possible but with the addition of army officers detailed for military work and other needed specialists. 2. That the proposed four-year military curriculum follow as nearly as practicable the educational standards and methods established in the various schools and colleges of this University. 3. That the first-year and second-year men who may elect to take the four-year military curriculum follow quite closely the general engineering curriculum to lay a foundation for future civil or military technical instruction. 4. That in the summer between the first and second years all students in the four-year military curriculum, whether enlisted or not, be sent into camp at the University or at one of the training camps established by the government and that while there they be given intensive military training such as will demonstrate the fitness of each student for continuation in his chosen military course. This discipline and military instruction should be equivalent to four credit hours a week throughout the college year. 5. That between the second and third years there be a decided break, at which time determination is more definitely made as to each man's ability to serve as an officer. The summer season must be spent by the successful men in some professional or military occupation to be approved by the appropriate University authority. 6. That the studies of the students in the third and fourth years
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