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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[June 29

following vote: Aye, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Barrett; no, none; absent, Dr. Meyer.

AGREEMENT WITH LINDE AIR PRODUCTS COMPANY AND APPROPRIATION FOR RESULTING NECESSARY CHANGES IN W O O D S H O P (6) The Linde Air Products Company of New York has offered to lend the University, without charge, gas welding equipment valued at $1,800. Since the University's facilities for instruction in welding are inadequate, the acceptance of this loan will make it possible to give instruction in gas welding with equipment constantly kept up to date and in good condition at no expense to the University. T h e use of this equipment will, however, require certain changes in the woodshop, the cost of which is estimated at $850. T h e Faculty Committee on Special Appropriations and Non-recurring Expenditures agrees with the Dean of the College of Engineering and the H e a d of the Department of Mechanical Engineering that the University should take advantage of this offer, and recommends that a special appropriation of $850, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be made from the General Reserve Fund for this purpose. I recommend authorization of an agreement with the Linde Air Products Company for the loan of this equipment, and an appropriation of $850 to cover the cost of the necessary changes in the woodshop and the installation.

On motion of Mr. Barrett, the agreement was authorized and the appropriation was made as recommended, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Barrett; no, none; absent, Dr. Meyer.

APPROPRIATION FOR PUBLISHING KASKASKIA VALLEY REPORT (7) A recommendation that an appropriation of $500 be made from the General Reserve Fund for the mimeographing of 1,000 copies of the Kaskaskia Valley Report which has been made by members of the University staff, the staffs of the State Surveys, and the staffs of certain State departments for the Illinois State Planning Commission.

On motion of Mr. Barrett, this appropriation was made, by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Karraker, Mr. Barrett; no, none; absent, Dr. Meyer.

ENTRANCE EXAMINATION F U N D (8) Since 1917, the University has been giving examinations four times a year, usually in Chicago, for candidates for admission to the State Bar Examinations. This practice was started at the request of the Board of Bar Examiners under an arrangement that the University should charge fees high enough to cover all expenses. Originally these examinations were in high school subjects only, but in 1926, again at the request of the Board of Bar Examiners, examinations in college subjects were added. T h e fees established by the Board of Trustees were $1.00 a unit for high school examinations and $1.00 a subject for college examinations. The Registrar reports that recently the income from fees has been insufficient to cover the expense of giving these examinations and that there will be a deficit of $600 this year. He therefore recommends that the fee be increased to $1.50 per college subject. I concur in this recommendation and recommend further that an appropriation of $600 be made from the General Reserve Fund to the Entrance Examination Fund to cover the deficit. T h e increased fee will, of course, make up for this in time. Since this appropriation is to coyer a deficit, it should be effective for the fiscal year 1935-1936. O n m o t i o n o f M r . B a r r e t t , t h i s r e c o m m e n d a t i o n w a s a d o p t e d and the appropriation w a s m a d e as r e c o m m e n d e d , by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Karraker, M r . B a r r e t t ; no, n o n e ; absent, D r . Meyer. APPROPRIATION FOR POWER PLANT IMPROVEMENTS (9) A recommendation that the sum of $30,000, which was reserved for( the second half of the current biennium for " P o w e r Plant Improvements, be