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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 8,

AUTHORITY TO APPOINT G R A D U A T E SCHOLARS A N D FELLOWS (4) A request for authority to appoint scholars and fellows in the Graduate School for the year 1919-20, on recommendation of the executive faculty of that School, with stipendia to the total amount of twenty-five thousand dollars.

This request was granted.

BOOKS FOR T H E UNIVERSITY OF L.OUVAIN (5) A request from the Chairman of the Louvain University Library Committee for the donation to the library of the University of Louvain in Belgium of such books as the University may be able to spare from its collection.

The University Librarian, Mr. Phineas L. Windsor, was authorized to select books from the duplicates in possession of the University to the extent of one thousand volumes and send them as a gift from the trustees and faculties of the University of Illinois to the sister University of Louvain, Belgium, whose library was destroyed on the burning of the city by the Germans.

A P P O I N T M E N T OF PROFESSOR CRAWSHAW (6) A recommendation that Professor F. D. Crawshaw, formerly President of the Academic Board of the School of Military Aeronautics, be appointed Professor of Industrial Education and Assistant to the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station, beginning January 1, 1919, and continuing until the expiration of the term of his appointment, namely October 1, 1919, at a salary of $450 a month.

This appointment was authorized.

COOPERATIVE A G R E E M E N T (7) The text of a proposed agreement between the United States Bureau of Mines and the University of Illinois for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. AGREEMENT between the United States Bureau of Mines, the State Geological Survey Division of the State of Illinois, and the Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Illinois. The United States Bureau of Mines, hereinafter referred to as the Bureau, the State Geological Survey Division of the State of Illinois, hereinafter referred to as the Survey, and the Engineering Experiment Station of the University of Illinois, hereinafter referred to as the University, desiring to make cooperative investigations and disseminate information with a view to improving conditions in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries, safeguarding life among employees, preventing unnecessary waste of resources, and otherwise contributing to the advancement of these industries, hereby agree as follows: 1. The Bureau will maintain in the buildings furnished by the University, on its campus at Urbana, Illinois, a mining experiment station devoted to the above purposes and to such other investigations as may be assigned to it from time to time by the Director of the Bureau, and will, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919,