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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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SOL Roy ROSENTHAL, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology and Public Health, March 6 through August 31, 1944. ( A r m y ) NORMAN E. LENTZ, Junior Account Clerk, Division of Services for Crippled Children, March 1 through August 31, 1944. ( A r m y )

On motion of Mr. Fornof, these leaves were granted as recommended.

SABBATICAL LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR PROFESSOR LOUISE DUNBAR (3) Assistant Professor Louise Dunbar of the Department of History requests a sabbatical leave of absence for the first semester of 1944-1945 (September 1, 1944, to March I, 1945) on one-half pay. For several years she has spent her summers in various libraries in the United States and abroad assembling materials for the preparation of a book on the "British Royal Governors in North America during the French and Indian War." She now wishes to have time to put this material into final written form for publication and proposes to spend the sabbatical one-half year working at Urbana. I recommend approval. O n m o t i o n of M r . J e n s e n , this leave w a s g r a n t e d as r e c o m m e n d e d . BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (4) T h e By-Laws of the University of Illinois Athletic Association provide that its Board of Directors shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University, on recommendation of the President of the University at the annual meeting of the Board in March. There are seven members of this Board of Directors, four appointed from the faculty, and three from the membership of the Alumni Association. For the past three or four years the Board of Trustees has followed a policy of making periodical changes in the membership of this board by replacing the faculty and alumni members who have served the longest. While in normal times this policy is sound in the interest of securing new points of view and giving various classes and communities of alumni representation, the problems, financial and otherwise, of the Athletic Association which have been created by war conditions and the uncertainty of the future make it desirable in my judgment to keep the present Board of Directors intact. I am, therefore, recommending reappointment of the following as members of the Board of Directors of the University of Illinois Athletic Association: Faculty ROBERT B. BROWNE, Director of University Extension and Director of the Summer Semester. LESLIE E. CARD, Professor of Poultry Husbandry.

GEORGE B. WEISIGER, P r o f e s s o r of Law.

DONALD L. KEMMERER, Assistant Professor of Economics. Alumni WALDO B. AMES, Class of 1917, Insurance Broker, 175 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. CHARLES W H A M , Class of 1912, Attorney, Centralia. LOWELL A. SPURGEON, Class of 1938, Personnel Director, Mechanics Universal Joint Division, Borg-Warner Corporation, Rockford.

On motion of Mrs. Grigsby, these directors were appointed as recommended.

STUDENTS' USE OF ENGLISH (5) F o r the past three years the University Senate (faculty) has been considering reports and recommendations, based on studies by its Committee on Educational Policy, for improving the standard of English used by undergraduate students. Recommendations on this have been submitted to and approved by the Board of Trustees on June 24, 1941, June 19, 1943, and July 28, 1943There has been in operation a special Committee on Student English appointed by the University Senate. As a result of its experiences and different studies on which the Committee has made a report to the Senate, the Senate