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1924]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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4. The department of Physical Welfare shall include three principal divisions. namely, a division of health, a division of physical education, and a division of athletics, each under the direction of a special supervisor. 5. The required work in hygiene and sanitation shall be reorganized and strengthened so as to form a more adequate basis for the work in physical education, with which it is to be correlated. 6. Additional elective courses shall be offered in hygiene to suit the needs of the professional groups of the University. 7. The University shall increase its facilities for corrective work and intramural athletics to the end that the required participation of students may be extended throughout the four years of the undergraduate curriculum. 8. Intramural sports shall be placed under the charge of the department of physical welfare, and suitable credit toward graduation be given for the required work in physical education. 9. Intercollegiate athletics may be retained as a proper stimulus and reward for success in intramural athletic sports, although further expansion at this time is not advised. T h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e approved with the understanding that the University health officer, as such, while acting also as supervisor of health in this reorganization, shall maintain his direct relations with the President; a n d also with the understanding that after the Senate has reached conclusions o n the modifications of the curric u l u m m a d e necessary b y this s c h e m e the plan shall be put into operation as fully a n d rapidly as finances permit without detriment to the desirable progress of other departments of the University. (b) A recommendation that Mr. George Huff be appointed Director of the Department of Physical Welfare, and that his total salary be made $8,000 a year. O n motion of M r s . E v a n s , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s adopted. GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS (3) A recommendation that the following ruling be adopted. The Health Department, the Physical Welfare Department, and the Military Department are general University education departments, not attached lo any college. Requirements in them and similar departments, when imposed by the University Senate and duly approved by the Board of Trustees, are applicable 10 all students of the University, according to sex, without reference to the college or school in which students are taking their principal work. O n motion of M r s . Blake, this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s adopted.

THE MEDICAL DEVELOPMENT

(4) The additional organization which will be needed in the College of Medicine on moving into our new buildings includes three divisions—preventive medicine, surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology. Dean Eycleshymer, after conference with his associates in the matter, requests that the sum of $130,000 be now appropriated for this purpose, to be divided as follows: Preventive Medicine $60,000 Surgery 50,000 Obstetrics and Gynecology 20,000 This suggestion, of course, is for the coming year. Moreover, of course the assignment must be, like all such assignments, subject to modifications as the situation develops. At the head of preventive medicine, Dean Eycleshymer recommends, with m y hearty approval, that we put Professor D. J. Davis, now of our staff. W h e n the