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this building was undoubtedly inadequate. If the completion dates of our two projects, No. 1962-F and No. 1745-F, had been reversed, we probably could have met completion dates on both without the necessity of a request for extension of time on either, but inasmuch as one year's time is hardly more than enough to actually construct Project 111. 1745-F, even if drawings and specifications had been completed at the time the offer was received, it is necessary for us to request this extension of time due to the nature of the building itself. CONTRACTS FOR NATURAL RESOURCES BUILDING (31) Bids for work on the superstructure of the Natural Resources Building will be opened on May 9, shortly after which contracts will be submitted to the University for its approval pursuant to the agreement with the Department of Registration and Education. To avoid delay in starting the work, someone should be authorized to act for the Board of Trustees on the approval of the contracts unless the Board itself desires to meet for this purpose, or it happens t h a t a meeting has been scheduled within a day or two after the contracts are ready. Consequently I would suggest t h a t the Board give its President or the Chairman of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds authority to act on these contracts on May 10 or shortly thereafter.

On motion of Mr. Adams, the President of the University was authorized to award these contracts. REHOUSING OF COLLEGE OF PHARMACY

(32) In the rehousing of the College of Pharmacy it was contemplated t h a t eventually the activities carried on in the New Pharmacy Unit," erected in 1926, would be transferred to the Medical and Dental Building, and the "New Pharmacy Unit" remodeled for use as a student-faculty-alumni center. T o do this will require the use of part of the 7th and 8th floors on the Second Unit of the Medical and Dental Building, originally designed for the expansion of dental clinics. Such a change will centralize the work of the College of Dentistry in the upper floors as well as centralizing the activities of the College of Pharmacy. There is also involved a consolidation of certain laboratory programs of the Department of Anatomy in the First Unit in order to secure space on the 6th floor for Chemistry courses in Pharmacy. The future size of enrollments in Dentistry is also involved in this consolidation. The question of the future size of the College of Dentistry is fundamental to this program. The College of Dentistry can not use the space under consideration on the 7th and 8th floors unless it has additional equipment. There are no funds for much if any additional equipment for Dentistry available now or in prospect during the biennium 1939-1941. I recommend approval of the temporary use of the vacant space on the 7th and 8th floors of the Second Unit but that no final decision as to the enrollment in Dentistry be made until the new general administrative officer in the Chicago Departments has been appointed and can be consulted. M r . W i e l a n d o f f e r e d a m o t i o n t h a t t h e u s e of t h e s p a c e b e a u thorized as recommended.

Mrs. Plumb offered a substitute motion that action be deferred until after the appointment of the new Dean of the College of Pharmacy. On vote, the substitute motion did not prevail, and Mr. Wieland's motion was then adopted.

TWO-YEAR PRE-FORESTRY C U R R I C U L U M (33) The University Senate recommends that the Board of Trustees approve the following two-year pre-forestry curriculum to be offered by the College of Agriculture, which has been proposed by the faculty of the College to meet a demand for well-trained persons.