Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 11]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DUPONT DE NEMOURS FELLOWSHIP IN CHEMISTRY

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The following correspondence:

June 3, 1918 Dr. W. A. Noyes, Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois

DEAR SIR:

OUR FILE RW-2300-3 The E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company has recently appropriated a sum of money to create fellowships and scholarships at leading universities and colleges for the purpose of encouraging advanced students to continue the study of chemistry. The placing of these scholarships and .fellowships has been put in my hands and I take pleasure in advising you that we offer the University of Illinois a fellowship of $750 for the scholastic year 191S19. The only conditions we make are that the fellowship is to be known as a "DuPont Fellowship'' and is to be granted by the university authorities to a graduate student whose major subject is chemistry. As a matter of interest we would like to be advised of the name of the appointee and in addition we would like to have a report twice per annum of the progress made. While the present offer covers one year only, it is our hope that we will be able to repeat the offer from year to year. I will ask that you kindly advise me promptly whether the university accepts this offer under the conditions stated and if so, how the check should be made out. Sincerely yours,

CHAS. L. REESE

Chemical Director June 22, 1918 Dr. Charles L. Reese, Chemical Director, Wilmington, Delaware

MY DEAR SIR:

Professor Noyes has turned over to me your communication of June 3rd, offering to the University of Illinois the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) for the scholastic year 1918-1919 to establish a fellowship in Chemistry for that year, to be known as the DuPont Fellowship. I am sure that the Board of Trustees at its next meeting will accept this fellowship with great pleasure and with an expression of gratitude to the Company. Professor Noyes is mistaken in regard to one matter. In establishing fellowships and prizes of this sort, the University expects the money to be in its Treasury at the time it establishes the fellowship. Our plan is to pay the fellows in ten or twelve monthly installments, more usually in ten, and the students spend the ten months in actual work in the laboratories. Would this be acceptable to you? Faithfully yours,

EDMUND J. JAMES