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board of trustees

[February 11

THESIS REQUIREMENT OF GRADUATE SCHOOL (13) I recommend approval of the f l o i g r g l t o on recommendation o the olwn euain f Executive Faculty of the Graduate School and the University Senate. Thesis work on leave of absence.—Under proper conditions a student may be permitted to complete the last fourth of his work, if devoted to his thesis, under leave of absence for a period not to exceed the equivalent of two semesters. T o get such permission the student must have secured credit for at least six units; must petition for the privilege; must submit to the Dean an outline of the proposed investigation, approved by the head of his major department; and must submit satisfactory evidence that adequate facilities are available to him at the place where he intends to do the proposed work. Approval on all these points must be obtained one collegiate year before the thesis is due. Immediately following approval the student may register and pay an incidental fee of $20. This regulation w a s adopted. ABSENCE FOR F. F. ELLIOTT (14) O n request of Dean Mumford I recommend that Mr. F. F. Elliott, Associate in Farm Organization and Management, be permitted to be absent for two months without pay, from February 9, 1925, in order to assist the Bureau of Agricultural Economics at Washington in certain statistical studies. This leave w a s granted.

SABBATICAL LEAVE OF PROFESSOR F. L. STEVENS

(15) In a letter dated January 22, 1925, Dean K. C. Babcock of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences writes as follows : "I have just received a letter from Professor Stevens indicating his desire to return to the University for the second semester I recommend such action as may be necessary to permit him to resume his work with full salary from the date of his arrival with definite forfeiture of further sabbatical privileges until the expiration of another seven-year period following September I, 1925." In accordance with this letter I recommend that Professor Stevens be permitted to resume his work on full time and salary from the date of his return, on condition that he have no further rights to leave of absence under the so-called sabbatical privilege until the date above mentioned. This r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s approved.

BEQUEST OF MRS. ALBERTINA GEHRMANN

(16) O n advice of Judge Harker, I authorized the Comptroller to enter the consent of the Board of Trustees as a legatee of the will of Mrs. Albertina Gehrmann to the filing and approval of thefinalaccount of the executor. This report w a s received for record.

ON PROPOSED TRANSFER OF COLLEGE OF LAW

(17) The following resolutions: W H E R E A S we are credibly informed that a bill has been introduced into the legislature proposing to transfer the College of Law from its present site at Urbana, in connection with the main University, to Springfield, and W H E R E A S the reason which we have been given for such transfer, namely, that the location of the College of Law in proximity to the state courts is, in the opinion of able educators of little importance W H E R E A S the disadvantages of separating the College of Law from sundry other departments of the University would be great and serious not only for the standards of the College of L a w but for standards in other departments oF the University; now therefore be it R E S O L V E D that, in the opinion of the Board of Trustees of the University, the proposed removal of the College of Law would be disadvantageous to the College of Law and to the rest of the University educationally as well as administratively, and be it further