Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926 [PAGE 153]

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Property Rental Date Tenure Lessee 1121 Williamson St. C $60 per mo.

1-10-25 T. F. McNeill Self renewing Miscellaneous contracts executed under general regulations regarding contracts. Name Amount Date Item Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. .$1,500 1-9-1925 Concert, February 17 Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.... 2,000 1-14-25 Concert and Rehearsal, April 3 This report w a s received for record. GIFT FROM AUSTIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY (26) The Director of the Engineering Experiment Station informs me that the Austin Manufacturing Company, 400 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, has informed the head of the Department of Civil Engineering that it will be willing to furnish $1,200 a year for two years to pay the stipends of two research graduate assistants in the Engineering Experiment Station with the request that the investigations of these assistants be devoted to a study of the maintenance and construction of earth and gravel roads. I have accepted this subject to the usual regulations governing the acceptance of contributions for carrying on research. This report w a s received for record. GIFT OF IRON MOUNTAIN COMPANY (27) Dean Ketchum informs me that the Iron Mountain Company, by its President, Mr. L. A. Busby, has presented the Department of Mining Engineering with a Sullivan Drill, which has an approximate value of $100. This report w a s received for record. GIFT OF COOPERATIVE FOUNDRY COMPANY OF ROCHESTER, N E W YORK (28) Dean H. W. Mumford informs me that the Cooperative Foundry Company, of Rochester, N e w York, has donated to the University a pipeless furnace for use in an experimental com drying plant on the South Farm. This report w a s received for record. MANUFACTURE OF CHEMICALS (29) On August 28, 1917 (page 514 Board Minutes), the Board adopted a certain policy recommended by Dean K. C. Babcock to govern the manufacture of certain chemicals needed to meet the demands of our own laboratories and the sale of any surplus to other practical and scientific laboratories. A review of the circumstances incidental thereto and consultation with our legal counsel convinces m e that it i s necessary to change the action of the Board as recorded on this matter, since the University may not engage in the production of chemicals or anything else for market whose production is apt primarily a laboratory or educational exercise. The phraseology of the action shows that we are intentionally setting out to manufacture for sale. Therefore, I recommend that the Board reconsider its action of August 28, 1917, and that i change the wording of paragraph "A" to read as follows: t "That the department of chemistry be authorized to continue the manufacture of a selected, diversified number of chemicals to meet the demands of our own laboratories, it being understood that any surplus not needed by our own laboratories may be sold as occasion offers as is done with laboratory products in other departments such a^ Floriculture, Dairy Husbandry, Animal Husbandry, and so forth." O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, the action of August 28, 1917, w a s reconsidered. O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, the regulation w a s a m e n d e d as recommended.

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