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1923]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR ERNEST BERNBAUM

(5) A recommendation that a request from Professor Ernest Bernbaum, of the Department of English, for sabbatical leave, under the regulations, beginning September 1 next, be granted. On motion of Mr. Hoit, this request was granted. INSURANCE OF RESEARCH LIBRARY AND LABORATORY DURING CONSTRUCTION (6) The contract with the C. A. Moses Construction Company for general work on the Research Library and Laboratory Building in Chicago provides that we shall maintain insurance during construction against loss or damage byfire.The architects have written to Mr. Cunningham that at this time the Board of Trustees should carry a total of $38,000 of fire insurance on work and material on this building. The Supervising Architect, Professor White, advises to the same effect. Therefore I recommend that the Comptroller be directed to take out insurance to the amount of $38,000, as advised by the architects and the Supervising Architect, and as is in accordance with our contract, against loss or damage byfire,the policies to cover the work incorporated in the building and material in or about the building, and made payable to the various parties interested, as their interests m a y appear; and that an appropriation of $500 be made from the Reserve and Contingent Fund to pay the premium on the insurance now to be taken out, and on additional insurance on this construction as circumstances require. O n motion of M r . Hoit, these r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s were concurred in. T h e vote w a s as follows: A y e , M r . A b b o t t , M r s . Blake, M r s . E v a n s , M r s . Grigsby, M r . Hoit, M r . Noble, M r . Trimble; n o , n o n e ; absent; M r . Blair, M r s . B u s e y , M r . Herbert, M r . Small.

CHANGE OF CONTRACT WITH UNITED STATES VETERANSBUREAU

(7) A recommendation, made at the request of the United States Veterans' Bureau, on recommendation of Provost Babcock, that we cancel our present contract, as of January 31, 1923, and enter into a new contract, according to the terms given below, and as recommended by Provost Babcock in the accompanying letter. The essence of the change is that we stop instruction at the University and undertake to carry on project instruction with groups of veterans on the farm. The letter and contract follow. February 11, 1923 President David Kinley, Administration Building Dear President Kinley: I recommend approval of the accompanying contract proposed by the United States Veterans Bureau, for the training of certain groups of persons to be sent here by the Bureau, or now here, for the period February 1, 1923 to June 30, 1923, as a substitute for that part of our present contract with the Bureau which relates to the training of non-collegiate students in agriculture, students whom we have classified as Vocational Specials. This recommendation is made after conference with Mr. Stoke and Mr. Tolman representing the Bureau and with Mr. W . G. Butler, our present instructor of this group of men, who is willing to undertake this new sort of instruction or supervision in place of his present work. A later statement from the Chicago office of the Bureau makes clearer one matter to which I objected in ourfirstconference. It is now understood that our instructor will deal only with groups of students and not with isolated individual students scattered around the State by the Bureau in carrying out its plans of placement or project assignment. Those men who have been hitherto in the Vocational Special groupwill be matriculated, transferred to the status of ordinary unclassified students, or transferred by the Bureau to other institutions or sent into placement or put on projects approved by the Bureau. If the proposal works out as the Bureau expects, enough men will probably be put under our charge to bring us $500 or $550 per month, a sum sufficient to provide