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board of trustees

[January 12

MATTERS PRESENTED BY PROVOST BABCOCK The Board considered the following matters presented by the Provost, acting for the President of the University. APPOINTMENT OF EVERETT G1LLHAM YOUNG (1) On nomination of Dean Ketchum, I recommend that Mr. Everett Gillham Young be appointed Research Professor of Railway Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering Experiment Station from January 15, 1927, until August 31, 1928, at a salary of $4,200 a year. O n motion of M r . Blair, this appointment w a s m a d e . APPOINTMENT OF DR. LLOYD ARNOLD (2) On nomination o Dean Davis, I recommend that Dr. Lloyd Arnold be apf pointed Associate Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine on full time, on indefinite tenure, from February I, 1927, at a salary rate of $5,000 per year. O n motion of M r . W h a m , this appointment w a s made. APPOINTMENT OF DR. HALLARD BEARD (3) On nomination of Dean Davis, I recommend that Dr. Hallard Beard be made Acting Head of the Department of Ophthalmology from December 13, 1926, to September 1, 1927, without salary, to take the place of Dr. E. V. L. Brown who has resigned. Dr. Beard is ranking man in the Department and has been in charge during the illness and absence of Dr. Brown. O n motion of M r s . Busey, this appointment was made.1 APPOINTMENT OF PROFESSOR HAROLD E. JONES (4) On nomination o Dean Davis, I recommend that Dr. Harold E. Jones be apf pointed Assistant Professor of Surgery on the clinical faculty without salary, for eight months, beginning January 1, 1927. O n motion of M r s . Ickes, this appointment w a s m a d e .

LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR GARNER

(5) I recommend that Professor James W i Garner be given leave of absence for two weeks during the month of March to enable him to give the Stokes lectures at N e w York University. O n motion of M r s . Grigsby, this leave w a s granted.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR COLONEL W. T. MERRY

(6) Colonel W . T. Merry, Commandant,requestsa leave of absence for one month and twenty days from January 25, 1927, to accompany his wife, who is in il health, l to Arizona. I recommend that this leave be granted. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, this leave w a s granted. LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR MR. THOMAS R. PALFREY (7) On recommendation of the head of the Department of Romance Languages, I recommend that Mr. Thomas R. Palfrey, Instructor in the Department of Romance Languages, be given leave of absence for three weeks during the month of March to enable him to go to the University of Paris, where he has been doing graduate work, to defend his doctor's thesis. O n motion of M r . Barr, this leave w a s granted. ISee later action, page 109.