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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920
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1918] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 99 I further desire to recommend that in the description of M. & S. E. 2 and 3, the following statement be added: "Application to camp and army conditions will be given special attention." In the description of M. & S. E. 6a and 6b, the description should be expanded to include the following statement: "The sanitation of army camps, hospitals and industrial communities will receive special attention." In addition to the foregoing recommendations, I hope later to recommend the addition of two or three new courses in the Department of Architecture^ and a new course in gunnery and one in orientation in the Department of Civil Engineering. I have not yet been able to determine the time which will be necessary for the completion of these courses, hence, I am unable to make specific recommendations at the present time. Referring again to the short curriculums herein proposed, the work outlined can be handled with our present facilities and without additional expense, unless there should be a very large number of persons enrolling in the curriculums. For the short curriculum in the Mechanic Arts, some special equipment will be necessary, but the expense thereof will probably not be large. In connection with these proposed short curriculums, it seems to me that the fees received from students should be held in a fund, from which extraordinary expenses connected with the conduct of these curriculums would be paid, with the understanding that any surplus in this fund at the close of the semester would be returned to the general University fund. Respectfully submitted, C. R. RICHARDS Other recommendations for War Emergency Short Courses have also been made by individual colleges and departments, notably the College of Agriculture. The distinguishing feature is that no requirements for admission are made except ability to do the work of the course, and a special fee is to be charged and fixed if possible at such a figure as to defray the special expense involved in giving the course. The President of the University was authorized to organize such War Emergency Courses in accordance with the plan suggested. RECONSTRUCTION HOSPITAL (12) A statement that the project for the erection of a reconstruction hospital in Chicago, by the Red Cross to be used by the Government during the war and after and to be ultimately turned over to the University at a fixed price, has not yet been put into such shape as to command the support of all parties concerned. Something may come out of it later, but no definite progress can be announced at the present time. No action was taken in this matter.
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