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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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the support of mature alumni then decide to proceed despite the expressed doubt of responsible mature University officials, is a question which properly should be left to the alumni advisers. The University should not wash its hands of responsibility for ill-advised action by student groups involving them in intolerable financial burdens for years to come. Indiscretion and improvidence in this regard react against the University locally and throughout the State. The University can with complete propriety examine plans and particularly inquire into financial capacity to pay the obligations as they mature. Inasmuch as construction is perhaps in most cases carried on under the direction and control, and on the responsibility, of adult alumni the University probably could not absolutely refuse an organization permission to undertake an enterprise even though grave doubts exist regarding its wisdom. A confirmation of these instructions is requested. On motion of M r . Barrett, the action of the President of the University in issuing these instructions w a s confirmed.

AGREEMENTS FOR COOPERATIVE INVESTIGATIONS

fit) A report of the extension of an agreement for a cooperative investigation with the Corn Products Refining Company for a continuation of the study on the use of cerelose in the manufacture of ice cream. The original agreement (approved June 30, 1935, Minutes, page 225) expired on December 31, 1935, and has been extended for a period of six months ending on June 30, 1936. The Company has agreed to contribute an additional $1,200 for a continuation of this work. This report was received for record.

COOPERATION W I T H TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY IN PHOSPHATE DEMONSTRATION AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK

(12) A recommendation from the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station for authority to cooperate with the Tennessee Valley Authority in a project to demonstrate the need for phosphorus in establishing and growing soil-conservation and improvement crops on soils low in phosphorus. The Tennessee Valley Authority will supply several carloads of phosphate and will pay the freight on this fertilizer to points at which it will be used under the direction of the Agricultural Experiment Station. The Soil Conservation Service in Illinois will use approximately half of the phosphate in demonstrations on the farms of cooperators within the areas of Civilian Conservation Corps Camps. The Agricultural Extension Service will cooperate with the Soil Conservation Service in planning these demonstrations, and the Extension Service will be responsible for establishing demonstrations outside of the camp areas. The purpose of this demonstration and experimental work is to increase the interest of farmers in the use of phosphate fertilizers on soils requiring such treatment. On motion of M r . Mayer, this authority was granted.

FUNDS FROM ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTION IN PSYCHIATRY IN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

(13) A request from Dr. H. Douglas Singer, Professor and Head of the_Department of Neuropsychiatry, in which the Dean of the College of Medicine concurs, for authorization of the acceptance of financial assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation of New York for an extension of undergraduate instruction in psychiatry in the College of Medicine (through various departments of that division), under the following conditions: 1. Period and Amount A grant of $15,000 a year for three years, payable in advance either quarterly or in other installments, to provide salaries for additional members of the staff.