Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1932 [PAGE 129]

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year curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, the first vear of the new curriculum to be administered in the form of an admission requirement, viz: 1. For admission to the School of Pharmacy, students must have completed in a recognized college or university one year's work comprising not less than 30 semester hours, exclusive of military science, physical education, and hygiene. The work of this year must include prescribed subjects as follows: Semester Hours Chemistry (preferably including qualitative analysis) 8-10 English 6 Mathematics (including algebra and trigonometry) 5 The remaining hours to be made up from electives shall be subject to the following restrictions: N o work in chemistry in addition to the prescribed work may be elected; and no course in subjects offered in the School of Pharmacy (including botany, physiology, and bacteriology) may be elected. As desirable electives the following are recommended: accountancy, history, zoology, and economics. 1. A suitable course in physics shall be included in the Pharmacy curriculum and the courses in inorganic chemistry and qualitative analysis now included in the Pharmacy curriculum shall be discontinued. (The recommendation pertaining to a course in physics is made contingent on the availability of funds.) 3. The degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist shall be discontinued excepting that provision be made to allow students who have already entered this course a reasonable time in which to complete it. 4. On the completion of this four year curriculum, the degree of Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy shall be awarded. I recommend approval. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, these recommendations were adopted. CHANGE IN CURRICULUM IN ATHLETIC COACHING (7) A recommendation from the University Senate that the prescribed curriculum in Athletic Coaching as approved by the Board of Trustees on December 12, 1929, (page 463) be modified by the substitution of Rhetoric 2 (Rhetoric and Composition), a three-hour course, and English 7 (a new course on Ideas and Forms of English Literature), a two-hour course, for Rhetoric 12 (Rhetoric and Literature—a combination of rhetoric and an elementary study of literature), a five-hour course. O n motion of M r . Trees, this recommendation w a s adopted. CONTRACT FOR REFRIGERATION FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL LABORATORIES BUILDING (8) The Supervising Architect submits the following schedule of bids secured by Granger & Bollenbacher on automatic electrical refrigeration equipment for the Medical and Dental Laboratories Building: General Electric Company $7,487.35 Frigidaire Corporation 6,574.87 This will include nine refrigerators and a water cooler on each of eight floors. The Supervising Architect and the Medical faculty are of the opinion that the refrigerators supplied by the General Electric Company are better suited to the work to be done in this building, and recommend that the General Electric equipment be installed. The contract will be drawn to provide that replacements of defective units are to be made promptly and at the time the unit is removed. I concur in this recommendation. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, this contract w a s awarded to the General Electric C o m p a n y as r e c o m m e n d e d . APPROVAL OF REQUISITIONS FOR VARIOUS PURCHASES (9) A report of the approval of requisitions for the following purchases, amounting to one thousand dollars or Manufacturing Company at Bloomington, low net, f.o.b. this 1. T w o apron conveyors for Urbana, from the Webster over: the Boiler House of a cost of $1,459 bidder on equipment.