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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[October 20

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1 926 T h e Secretary presented for record the minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, University of Illinois, attended by Dr. William L. Noble and Merle J. Trees, was held in Chicago to consider bids received on August 24th, 1926, on the second unit of the new Library. It was moved and unanimously approved that the following contracts be awarded in accordance with the Supervising Architect's recommendation to the President of the University made on September 24th, 1926. General Work Peterson-Colwell Inc $170 552 00 Plumbing Walsh and Slattery 6 169 42 Sheet Metal and Roofing.Henry Reuter & Son 10 217 00 Electric Wiring Marrs-Tanner Electric Company 4 672 62 Ventilation Henry Reuter & Son 2 894 60 Action on the award of contract for the heating was deferred until the first meeting of the Board of Trustees, which is to be held at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, on Wednesday, October 20th, 1926. Merle J. Trees

W. L. Noble

Members Executive Committee At this point, Dr. Noble and Mr. Wham took their places with the Board. MATTERS PRESENTED BY THE PROVOST The Board considered the following recommendations submitted by the Provost, acting for the President of the University. SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM (1) At the recent meeting of the Illinois Press Association held at the University on September 30 and October 1, the Association unanimously approved the resolution given below, asking the University to expand the courses in journalism now given into a separate school or college of journalism. This resolution was unanimously passed, and i a repetition of a similar resolution sent to me two or s three years ago. A committee was appointed to confer with me on the matter. A conference was had with this committee, there being present from the University staff, besides myself, Dean K. C. Babcock, Professor Ernest Bernbaum, of the Department of English, and Professor Lawrence W . Murphy, who i in charge s of the work in journalism. The committee representing the Press Association consisted of the then president, Mr. W . J. Smith, editor of The Wauke^an Daily Sun and Lake County Independent at Libertyville; Mr. John Harrison, editor Danville Commercial News and ex-president of the Association; Mr. Harry U. Bailey, editor Princeton Republican, past president of the Association; Mr. D. W . Grandon, editor of daily papers at Sterling and LaSalle, and Mr. James McClure, editor of the Republican, at Carlinville. The resolution follows: October 1, 1926 Resolved: that a committee of the Illinois Press Association be named here tonight by the retiring president of the association to confer with President Kinley of the University tomorrow morning to urge him, and the University, to establish a regular School or College of Journalism on an equal footing and status with the College of Law and Medicine, and that the committee be composed of the retiring president and four other members of the Association, and that the committee be known as the School of Journalism Committee, and become a premanent standing committee of the association giving its efforts to the welfare of the School of Journalism at the State University. The matter was discussed for an hour or more at this conference. Evidently the members of the Association are very earnest in their desire to have this step