Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1942 [PAGE 724]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Laryngology, Rhinology, and Otology, $40 to supplement a previous contribution of $500 as a special fund for departmental purposes. 4. Mr. Frederic Taubes, Carnegie Visiting Professor of Art for 1941-1942, a painting, " T h e Violin Player," to the Department of Art. 5. Illinois State Board for Vocational Education, $39.68 for the National Defense Training P r o g r a m used by the Agricultural Engineering Department. 6. Friends and members of the faculty of Dr. Frederick B. Noyes (former Dean of the College of Dentistry and now retired), $589.86 to perpetuate the $50 annual seminar prizes which Doctor Noyes awarded during the time he was Dean of the College of Dentistry, to be set up as an expendable trust fund. 7. Westinghouse Electric and Manufaccuring Company, six 460 volt AC capacitors, or condensers, to the Department of Electrical Engineering. T h e value of these condensers is approximately $120. 8. International Harvester Company, a Model 300 power unit to the Department of Agricultural Engineering where it is being used as a part of their electric dynamometer. It is valued at approximately $500. 9. Hillel Foundation, a leaf from a sixteenth century Spanish Manuscript Antiphonarium inscribed on vellum and used in the Cathedral of Jaen, to the School of Music as a gift of appreciation for the use of Recital Hall for the Yom Kippur services. 10. Mrs. Archer Huntington (Anna H y a t t ) , a study of an elephant in bronze, fifteen inches long and eleven inches high, to the College of Fine and Applied Arts. Mrs. Huntington has made a specialty of animal studies and is represented in most of the museums of this country and also abroad. Grants for Research 1. Mr. M. B. Vick, $500, Mr. W . A. Singer, $1,500, Dr. B. Z. Rappaport, $300, and Mr. Clinton O. Dicken, $500 (total of $2,800) for research work on the chemistry and immunology of allergins, to be set up under the name of Allergy Antigens Research (College of Medicine). 2. General Foods Corporation, $700 for the purpose of conducting a study under the direction of Professor W. C. Rose of the Department of Chemistry of the tolerance and metabolic fate of hydroxyacetic acid.

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REGULATIONS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF COUNTY SCHOLARSHIPS (17) Under State law a scholarship is available in each county of Illinois to the candidate who passes with the highest grade a competitive examination conducted by the County Superintendent of Schools on the first Saturday in June of each year. T h e competition is open only to high-school graduates. The University prepares the examination questions and is authorized to prescribe such rules as may be necessary for the administration of these scholarships. Heretofore the law has provided that the examinations shall be graded by the County Superintendents of Schools and the results reported to the University. T h e 62nd General Assembly amended the law to provide that the University shall grade the papers. T h e Registrar, who represents the President of the University in the administration of the County Scholarship law, recommends that to facilitate this grading and to provide a more satisfactory type of examination the following objective type examinations which can be secured from the American Council on Education be authorized. Morning Examination (9:00-11:00) Cooperative English usage, spelling, and vocabulary test. Afternoon Examination (1:30-4:30) Choice of two of the following three cooperative general achievement tests: (1) general proficiency in the field of social studies; (2) general proficiency in the field of natural sciences; (3) general proficiency in the field of mathematics. These tests are for students of twelfth-grade level. H e further recommends that the County Scholarship regulations be amended