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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS

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is given to the University subject to them. In general I am sure Mr. Ryerson would desire that the University should make its own regulations regarding the prize, making it either annual or less frequent, if a larger sum i desired. M y s experience in prizes would lead m e to feel that a biennial prize of $100 is worth more than two annual prizes of $50. Any topic within the generalfieldof thrift would meet our desires. Trusting that this prize may be of some real help in the development of the proper attitude toward the future, I a m Sincerely yours, Shailer M a t h e w s Urbana, Illinois January 11, 1924 Dean Shailer Mathews, The Divinity School, University of Chicago

Dear Dean Mathews:

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of January 8 and the draft for the amount of $1281.16, the income of which is to be used for prizes for essays on thrift. I shall present the matter to our Board of Trustees at the next meeting. Meantime, I wish to thank you and through you your Committee very warmly for this fine public spirited action. I appreciate, also, your advice on the comparative worth of biennial and annual prizes which might be offered. With best wishes, I a m Very t u y y u S r[ ori David Kinley President On motion of Mrs. Evans, the President's action in accepting this gift was approved and his recommendation concerning the administration of the prize was adopted. PROPOSED GIFT OF THE CLASS OF 1918 (5) The following letter from the secretary of the Class of 1918: Urbana, Illinois, January 7, 1924 To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Ladies and Gentlemen: The class of 1918 at its Fifth Reunion last June voted to expend a certain sum of money from the class treasury for a two-fold purpose—(1) to further the project of a nursery for campus planting, and (2) to commemorate our affection for President James by planting and naming an avenue of elms in his honor. This second purpose, we understand, must await the future development of the campus and the will of future Boards of Trustees. A H we ask for the present is that the Board accept what small sums of money the class may contribute now and at future reunions, and that they turn this money over to the authorities in charge of the nursery, with instructions to expend it for young elm trees to be cared for in the nursery and transplanted to the campus at the discretion of said authorities or of the Board. Please notify m e of your action at the following address: 817 North Pine Street, Lansing, Michigan. Yours yery t u y rl> Catherine Needham Severance Permanent Secretary, Class of 1918 I recommend that the gift be accepted for the purpose named. O n m o t i o n of M r . Blair, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved.

LABORATORY FEE IN GEOLOGY 44

(6) A recommendation that, beginning with the second semester of this year a laboratory fee of one dollar be charged in Geology 44. O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, this fee w a s authorized.