Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1938 [PAGE 571]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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use of students and housemothers, such contracts to be recognized and enforced by the University only in the case of houses on the approved list. T h e conditions under which houses will be approved will be determined by the Dean of Men and the University Health Officer. ( N o houses are to be disapproved, but those which are not satisfactory will simply be omitted from the approved list, nor will all students be required to live in University approved houses since such a situation is impossible at the present time. When the time comes that the University can require all students to live in University approved residences, a central housing bureau for both men and women students may be desirable.) 2. That the University do not establish cooperative houses for men. While cooperative houses for women students have been satisfactory, observations of cooperative houses for men at other institutions indicate that the living standards are low and that there is no great economy. 3. That the University seek from the General Assembly of Illinois an outright appropriation for a portion of the cost of one or more dormitories for men and that enabling legislation be sought to provide bonding powers to finance the rest. O n m o t i o n of M r . M a y e r , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d . REQUEST FROM ILLINOIS C O U N C I L OF CHURCHES (27) A request from the Illinois Council of Churches that the University sponsor an interdenominational meeting of clergymen in Illinois for a few days of study at the University sometime during the current University year. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e a r y , t h e B o a r d v o t e d t h a t it a p p r e c i a t e s t h e i n t e r e s t i n g a n d c o n s t r u c t i v e s u g g e s t i o n s of t h e I l l i n o i s C o u n c i l of C h u r c h e s b u t d e e p l y r e g r e t s t h a t it is o u t s i d e of t h e j u r i s d i c t i o n of t h e U n i v e r s i t y t o call a r e l i g i o u s c o n f e r e n c e . GIFTS TO THE UNIVERSITY (28) T h e following report of gifts to the University: 1. Mr. H . Joseph Goldberger, a Civil Engineer of Chicago, student in the College of Engineering 1913-1916, 81 volumes of literature in the German language, books which formerly belonged to his father and mother. 2. T h e Benjamin and Julius Cohen Heart Fund to the College of Medicine, $600 for research in cardiac diseases. 3. Mr. C. P . Van Schaack, Jr., to the College of Pharmacy, certain historical relics of the Civil W a r period. 4. E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company, $2,000 to provide a research assistant to Professor C. S. Marvel in his research work on vinyl derivatives. 5. Chemical Foundation, $2,000 for research oil sulfanilamide derivatives under the direction of Professor Roger Adams. 6. Independent Electric Machinery Company, of Kansas City, Missouri, one 100-L Alamo Unit Plant No. 10688 (farm lighting unit). 7. Illinois Association of County Superintendents of Highways, $25 prize for paper on the subject of Highways. T h i s r e p o r t w a s received for record. QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER (29) T h e quarterly report of the Comptroller to the Board of Trustees as at September 30, 1937. T h i s r e p o r t w a s r e f e r r e d t o t h e F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e for c o n s i d e r a tion a n d report. D E C E M B E R MEETING B y u n a n i m o u s c o n s e n t , t h e D e c e m b e r m e e t i n g of t h e B o a r d w a s set f o r F r i d a y , D e c e m b e r 3 , 1937, a t 9 : 3 0 a . m . , a t t h e B l a c k s t o n e H o t e l , in Chicago.