Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1924 [PAGE 92]

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1922]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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AMERICAN UNIVERSITY UNION (8) A recommendation that $500 be appropriated from the Reserve and Contingent fund for the annual membership fee in the American University Union. O n motion of M r . Blair, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, M r . Abbott, M r . Blair, M r s . Blake, M r s . Busey, M r s . Evans, M r s . Grigsby, M r . Hoit; no, none; absent M r . Herbert, M r . Noble, M r . Small, M r . Trimble. BROADCASTING BY THE UNIVERSITY (9) A recommendation that the sum of $350, from the Reserve and Contingent Fund, be added to the Incidental Fund of the Department of Electrical Engineering for the purpose of paying, at the rate of $10 a week, the operator who does the work of broadcasting and any incidental expenses necessary. O n motion of M r . Hoit, this appropriation w a s m a d e , b y the following vote: A y e , M r . Abbott, M r . Blair, M r s . Blake, M r s . Busey, M r s . E v a n s , M r s . Grigsby, M r . Hoit; no, none; absent M r . Herbert, M r . Noble, M r . Small, M r . Trimble. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR JACOB ZEITLIN (lo) A recommendation that the request of Dr. Jacob Zeitlin, Associate Professor of English, for sabbatical leave of absence, with half salary, for the year 1923-24, be granted. O n motion of M r s . Blake, this recommendation w a s approved.

LABORATORY FEES

(11) A recommendation that laboratory fees in certain new laboratory courses, as recommended by the Heads of the Departments concerned, with the endorsement of the Provost and the Comptroller, be approved as follows: Chemistry 8 $8 Mechanical Engineering 85 (1st semester) 4 Mechanical Engineering 86 (and semester) 4 Mechanical Engineering 87 (1st semester) 4 Mechanical Engineering 88 (2nd semester) 4 O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, these fees were approved.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PARR COKING PROCESS

(12) A report of the special committee, consisting of the President of the Board and the President of the University, on the Parr process. Since rendering its informal report at the meeting of last July (Minutes, July 12, 1922, p. 9), Professor Parr and your committee have had additional conferences with representatives of the Koppers Company and particularly with Mr. Sperr, the representative of that company who recently was in Urbana. H e submitted the following memorandum as the basis of an agreement between the Koppers Company and the University for the commercial exploitation of the Parr process. Your committee has studied this agreement and recommends that it be made the basis of a contract. Your committee however recommends that paragraph 2 be amended by the addition of a statement like this: "Koppers" shall license on reasonablefinancialterms to any other company or individual the right to use this process under conditions that shall conserve the rights of the University under the contract of the Koppers Company. Your committee further recommends that the second paragraph under number 4 be amended by adding the words "until the cost of the demonstration plant has been liquidated and no longer." Your committee further recommends that, since the foreign rights of the patent to this process have been assigned to the University by Professors Parr and Layng, the