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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[March 20

balance in the biennial appropriation of $125,000 for the Band Building be permitted to lapse unused and that if this recommendation is approved by the Board, the Board be requested to do so with the understanding that this action is taken only because of war conditions and that at the first opportunity a new appropriation for the amount required to construct the building will be requested and that such request will be among the first proposals of the kind to be presented. Cordially yours,

LLOYD MOREY

Comptroller

On motion of Mr. Davis, it was declared to be the sense of the Board that it would give prime consideration to the erection of a Band Building as soon as the resumption of a building program becomes possible.

TRANSFER OF ASSETS OF W O M A N ' S LEAGUE (22) T h e Woman's League was for many years an association of individuals, but last year it was incorporated. With the reorganization of student activities, approved by the Board of Trustees, the Woman's League has been dissolved. T h e League has already given the University $1,000 as a Woman's League Fund for needy women students and has given the Woman's Group System, a subsidiary which formerly operated through Woman's League, $200, this money being deposited in the Student Organizations Fund for the use of the Woman's Group System. T h e remaining assets, consisting of cash, government bonds, furniture, and other personal property, representing an estimated aggregate value of $8400, will be turned over to the Board of Trustees. T h e League has requested that the sum represented by cash and securities is to provide a Woman's League Fund for Women Students. T h e furniture and equipment are now in the former Woman's League room in the Mini Union Building and have been turned over to the University for use in that building, and the furniture in cooperative houses is to be given to the University for continued use therein. Prior to its dissolution, Woman's League resorted to a friendly suit in Circuit Court asking court approval of the disposition of its funds as a protection of the individuals in Woman's League against possible objections and lawsuits. T h e Court has approved the transfer of its assets to the University to be used in conformity with the objects and purposes for which Woman's League, Inc., was formed, to wit: to promote the interests of women students at the University of Illinois, and to further a sense of unity and responsibility and help elevate the standards of scholarship and character among them. I report this to the Board for record with the recommendation that the assets be accepted to accomplish the foregoing purposes and objectives by such means as in the judgment of the Board shall seem most appropriate and advantageous in the cases of the individuals and groups directly concerned at any given time, and that at this time they be disposed of as above indicated. O n m o t i o n of M r s . G r i g s b y , t h i s r e p o r t w a s r e c e i v e d f o r r e c o r d a n d t h e g i f t of t h e W o m a n ' s L e a g u e w a s a c c e p t e d a s r e c o m m e n d e d . EXECUTIVE SESSION

At this point, the Board went into executive session for the consideration of matters presented by the President of the University and by committees of the Board.

HARRY G. A N D HARRIETTE A. WRIGHT ESTATES (23) T h e decision of the Supreme Court of Illinois in the case of T h e People ex rel. T h e Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois et al., Petitioners, v. George F . Barrett, Attorney General, et al., Respondents, holding that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has the right to employ its own counsel, was made final when the Court denied the petition of the Attorney General for a rehearing on March 11, 1943.