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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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A S S I G N M E N T O F PERCIVAL L A N D (3) The Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station requests that the Percival land be assigned to the College and Experiment Station for the use of their various departments, as determined by the Dean and Director, and approved by the President of the University. O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, this recommendation was approved. COOPERATIVE INVESTIGATION IN ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION (4) The following letter from Dean Ketchum, with accompanying documents, is submitted. May 15, 1924 President David Kinley, University oj Illinois M y dear President Kinley: Mr. W . L. Abbott, representing the Commonwealth Edison Company, The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, Middle West Utilities Company, Chicago Rapid Transit Company, and Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Company, has offered to give the University of Illinois $25,000 per year for two years to assist the Engineering Experiment Station in carrying on cooperative investigations of certain problems. The sum of $25,000 is to be divided between the different investigations as follows: Fatigue of Structural Parts $7,500 Aging of Porcelain 6,500 Refractories 6,000 Boiler Feed Water Treatment 5,ooo I am enclosing herewith two copies of Articles of Agreement covering the proposed cooperative investigations. These Articles of Agreement have been prepared in conference with Mr. Abbott and Judge Harker. I wish to recommend that Mr. Abbott's offer of $25,000 a year for two years for cooperative engineering research be accepted. Very truly yours, M. S. Ketchum ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, entered into this.......... day of , 1924, between the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, hereinafter called the Engineering Experiment Station, Party of the First Part, and W . L. Abbott (representing Commonwealth Edison Company, The Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, Middle West Utilities Company, Chicago Rapid Transit Company, and Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Company), hereinafter called the I'tilities Research Committee, Party of the Second Part, for cooperative investigations of (1) Fatigue of Structural Parts, (2) Aging of Porcelain, (3) Refractories, and (4) Boiler Feed Water Treatment, by the University, through its Engineering Experiment Station, a division of the University', under the following terms and conditions: (1) This agreement is executed for a period of two years, beginning June 1, 1924, with the understanding that it may be extended for additional periods under the same terms, or such other terms as may be mutually agreed upon. (2) The Engineering Experiment Station will have full control and direction of all experimental work and the computation and reduction of all results obtained. for other purposes. together with heat, light, for presentation. permit the use of such laboratory apparatus as power, possess, which is room use these(3) The Engineering Experiment Station will furnish water. In addition, for together with the placing of these data into formit may and the necessary not in it will investigations,