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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 15

slightly to cover all materials that are actually consuined in laboratory work as distinct from heating, lighting, and other permanent maintenance. In addition to the above recommendations, the Faculty Committee on Fees and Scholarships has made the following recommendations which have not yet been acted upon by the Board: 1st.—County Scholarships: T h e Committee recommends that these scholarships continue without change, except on the value of the fee exemption, which is covered in the last recommendation on this report. 2nd.—Civil War and Military Scholarships: Only a small number of these scholarships are awarded. They do not constitute a serious problem, and what question there may be concerning them will be solved in the course of time as these scholarships will diminish in number. 3rd.—Law and Music Scholarships: These scholarships are few in number and are awarded on the basis of scholastic achievement. T h e Committee recommends that they be retained as they are. 4th.—Summer Session Scholarships: The Committee has considered the Summer Session scholarships. They have the value of $12 each and are available to "all high school teachers in Illinois and all other teachers in the State who can matriculate in the University." In the summer of 1933 their total value was $12,564. The Committee considered lessening the value of these scholarships but came to the conclusion that the granting of them was a service the University should maintain, as all the persons who are given this privilege are working in the cause of education. As a rule they are awarded to persons who are poorly paid and who are struggling under handicaps to fit themselves better for their teaching work. There also is the factor that these scholarships tend to promote good relations between the University and the people in the public schools. T h e Committee recommends that these scholarships be retained with one change: T h e statement on Summer Session scholarships, after making such scholarships available to teachers and librarians in the State, provides further that such scholarships are available also to persons graduated from the teachers' colleges of Illinois during the academic year preceding the session in which the scholarship is desired. The Committee sees no reason for the retention of the statement in italics, since provision is made for teachers and those under contract to teach. Further, the Committee sees no reason for granting scholarships to graduates of teachers' colleges and not to the graduates of our own College of Education. It recommends that this provision be stricken out. 5th.—General Assembly, Agricultural, Home Economics, and Ceramic Scholarships: Action on these scholarships has already been referred to the Board in the February, March, and April meetings. Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE A. BAHR HAROLD POGUE EDWARD E. BARRETT,

Chairman

On motion of Mr. Barrett, this report was adopted.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATENTS M r . Barrett presented the following report: T h e meeting of the Committee on Patents was held in the Trustees' Room in the Administration Building of the University on Saturday, June 8th, at 10 a.m. T h e r e were present at this meeting Mr. Harold A. Pogue and Mr. Edward E. Barrett, Chairman (constituting a majority of the Committee). T h e r e were also present at this meeting Dr. D. B. Keyes, Professor of Industrial Chemistry, and Dr. H. F. Johnstone, Special Research Associate in Chemical Engineering.