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1924]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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ABSENCE O F MR. V E R N O N VAN I M A N (22) Dean Mumford recommends that Mr. Vernon Vaniman, Assistant State Leader of Farm Advisers, be granted a three months' leave of absence without pay, beginning April 15, 1924, for service in the Illinois Agricultural Association to assist in interesting the farmers' elevators of the state in better systems of accounting and auditing. I concur in the recommendation. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, this leave w a s granted.

RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR ARTHUR S. PEASE

(23) Professor Arthur S. Pease, who has been a member of our staff since 1909, has accepted a call to Amherst for service beginning with the academic year, 1924-25. I recommend that his resignation be accepted, effective August 31 next. I cannot let the occasion pass without expressing the regret felt by all of us in the withdrawal of Professor Pease. Hisfinepersonality, his high scholarship, and his skill as a teacher have made him a very valuable member of our faculty and have endeared him to all who know him. O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, this resignation w a s accepted with regret.

NEW PROFESSORSHIP IN LAW

(24) A request for authority to appoint Mr. Elliott Cheatham Professor of Law, at a salary of $6000 a year, for two years beginning September I, 1924. This appointment w a s authorized. APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM ARTHUR FOSTER (26) Dean Ketchum, on request of Professor Provine, of the Department of Architecture, recommends the appointment of Mr. William Arthur Foster to be Assistant Professor of Rural Architecture, in the Department of Architecture, at a salary of ?35CO a year effective September 1, 1924. O n motion of M r s . E v a n s , the President of the University w a s authorized to m a k e this appointment.

APPOINTMENT OF A. C. CALLEN

(26) A request for authority to appoint Mr. A. C. Callen Professor and Head of the Department of Mining Engineering, at a salary of ?6ooo a year, beginning September 1, 1924. O n motion of M r . Trees, this appointment w a s authorized.

PROFESSORSHIP IN SECONDARY EDUCATION

(27) A request for authority to appoint a professor of secondary education at a salary not to exceed $4000 a year. This appointment w a s authorized.

NEW POSITION IN CROP PATHOLOGY

(28) Professor Buriison has for some time urged, with the approval of Dean Mumford, the necessity of a new position in Crop Pathology, and asks that the position of associate be added to the positions already existing, and that Benjamin Koehler, now Assistant Pathologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, be appointed to the position at a salary of $2750 a year, for a period of I year and iyi months, beginning June r5» 1924I recommend that this addition to the staff positions in this department be authorized, and request authority to make the appointment as described. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, the President of the University w a s authorized to m a k e this appointment.