Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1930 [PAGE 608]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Professor White presented the plans for this building and as he proposed to revise them. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, the plans for the central unit of the Woman's Gymnasium were approved as revised. O n motion of M r . Trees, the Supervising Architect was authorized to receive bids for the central unit of the Woman's Gymnasium on the basis of the revised plans. APPOINTMENTS TO ALLERTON TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIPS (4) A recommendation from the Head of the Department of Architecture, concurred in by the Dean of the College, that Messrs. Paul B. Evans and Arthur S. Davis of the Class of 1931 be appointed to the two Allerton American Traveling Scholarships for the summer of 1930. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r s . E v a n s , this r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s adopted.

PURCHASE OF LABORATORY MATERIALS

(5) A request from the Comptroller for authority to purchase chemicals for use in the various laboratories during the year 1930-31 from the following concerns for the amount indicated in each case: Central Scientific Company J 302 66 W . M . Welch Manufacturing Company 442 51 Mallinckrodt Chemical Company 2 578 71 Coleman and Bell 533 21 E. H. Sargent and Company 2 881 01 Henry Heil Chemical Company 634 26 ?7 372 36 It is necessary to order the equipment now in order to have it available at the opening of the academic year. Provision for this purchase will be made in the 1930-31 budget. I recommend approval. O n motion of M r . Trees, these purchases were authorized.

GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY

(6) The following report of gifts received by the University: 1. From the J. T. Baker Chemical Company, a fellowship, to be known as the J. T. Baker Chemical Company Research Fellowship in Analytical Chemistry, for the year 1930-31. The holder of the Fellowship will receive a stipend of $1,000. 2. From the Charles A. Coffin Foundation of the General Electric Company, a Charles A. Coffin Foundation Fellowship for the year 1930-31 with a stipend of $500. 3. From Bauer & Black, manufacturers of surgical supplies, the sum of $750 for the establishment of a fellowship for 1930-31 for fundamental x-ray research on problems and materials, such as cotton, plastic rubber, surgical sutures, etc., involved in the manufacture of surgical supplies. 4. From the Tennessee Products Corporation of Nashville, Tennessee, the sum of $250 to supplement their previous gifts of $1,000 in 1928 (Minutes, page 52) and ? 1,000 in 1929 (Minutes, page 366) for the establishment of a research assistantship in high pressure gas reactions. 5. From the Chemical Foundation, the sum of $1,000 for sanitary research. This is a continuation of similar gifts made in previous years. 6. From the American Society of Civil Engineers, the sum of $1,200 as a continuation of the fund for research graduate assistantships in concrete arch investigations. This is a continuation of previous gifts for this work which was started four years ago. 7. From the Permanent Science Fund of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, the sum of $500 for studies on irradiated ergosterol by the College of Medicine. icine. for research work on the physiological action of light in the College the sum of $275 From the Grand Council of the Phi Rho Sigma Medical Fraternity, of Med8.