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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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PURCHASE OF PRINTS (3) A recommendation that the purchase be authorized of one Carnegie Art Reference Set, for the College of Fine and Applied Arts Collection of Prints, from Rudolf Lesch Fine Arts Incorporated, New York, at a price of $1,475. This is a non-competitive item. The total cost of the set is $2,975, but the Carnegie Corporation of New York has made a grant of $1,500 to the University for its purchase, and the Board on December 18, 1939 (Minutes, page 670), made a special appropriation of $1,500 for the University's share of the cost.

On motion of Mr. Cleary, this purchase was authorized.

PURCHASE OF LAND (4) A special committee of the faculty which has been studying the University's building and other permanent improvement needs, as one phase of the general study which is being made of the biennial budget for 1941-1043, has recommended the following policy with respect to future land acquisitions: "The Committee considers that purchases should be made either in Urbana or Champaign to widen the narrow portion of the campus between University Avenue and Nevada Street in Urbana, and Armory Avenue in Champaign. Areas immediately east of the Natural History, Chemistry, and Old Agriculture Buildings are desirable for additional buildings for Natural History and Chemistry, and the parcels of land bounded by Mathews, Goodwin, Green, and Springfield, which the University does not already own, should be purchased to consolidate its property, to provide for extension of the engineering portion of the campus and to improve the surroundings of the Transportation and Ceramics Buildings. " T h e Committee is of the opinion that it is undesirable to locate buildings for colleges and schools, other than Agriculture, further south than the Architecture, Commerce, and New Agriculture Buildings, because of the distance which students would be required to walk in going from class to class. The present situation is not desirable in this respect." Any officer or committee if given the responsibility of recommending property purchases should, of course, keep in close touch with the real estate market in the areas adjacent to the University campus so that purchases may be made at favorable times. In this connection, the Committee calls attention to the fact that the property at 306 South Mathews Avenue (across from the Natural History Building) is on the market. T h i s m a t t e r w a s r e f e r r e d to the C o m m i t t e e on Buildings and G r o u n d s for f u r t h e r consideration. APPOINTMENT OF HOWARD E. PHILLIPS TO PLYM FELLOWSHIP IN ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING (5) A recommendation from the Plym Fellowship Committee that Howard E. Phillips, 1007 South Locust Street, Champaign, Illinois, be appointed the Seventeenth Plym Foreign Fellow in Architectural Engineering, subject to the usual regulations (except that he will be unable to go abroad), and that Ferdinand A. Loebach, 315 Cedar Street, Niles, Michigan, has been designated as alternate in case Mr. Phillips finds it impossible to accept. I concur in the recommendation of the Committee. O n m o t i o n of M r . C l e a r y , t h e s e a p p o i n t m e n t s w e r e m a d e a s recommended.

The Executive Committee adjourned.

H. E. CUNNINGHAM

HAROLD POGUE,

Chairman

Clerk

JAMES M. CLEARY