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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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matics curriculum by including topics from modern mathematics and by presenting the subject as an integrated body rather than as a group of isolated courses. The University has underwritten the project in its present status and will continue to contribute to it, but the grant provides for further development beyond University resources, and the program will be extended and tested in many high schools throughout Illinois. Schools now participating include Barrington High School, Blue Island Community High School, Pekin Community High School, the University High School at Urbana, and the Principia Upper School in St. Louis, Missouri. The Carnegie grant will be used by a University committee to continue the work of developing mathematics courses for each of the four secondary school years, preparing classroom text materials and teachers' manuals, and conducting training courses in the new teaching techniques to be developed. The project is directed by a committee of representatives of the Colleges of Education, Engineering, and Liberal Arts and Sciences. I have accepted this grant on behalf of the Board of Trustees. T h i s r e p o r t w a s received for record. IMPROVEMENTS O N W E B E R FARMS (35) The Dean of the College of Agriculture and the Comptroller recommend award of a contract for $6,086.95 to James Bickerman, Magnolia, Illinois, the lowest bidder, for construction of a horizontal silo and a cattle shed, with paved feeding lot, on the Laura M. Weber farm No. 4 in LaSalle County. This and farm No. 2 are being converted from grain to livestock farms on recommendation of the College of Agriculture and the improvements are necessary for such a program. Funds will be available from the income of the farms. I concur and recommend that the Comptroller and the Secretary of the Board be authorized to execute this contract. O n m o t i o n of M r . J o h n s t o n , t h i s c o n t r a c t w a s a w a r d e d , a n d t h e C o m p t r o l l e r a n d S e c r e t a r y of t h e B o a r d w e r e a u t h o r i z e d t o e x e c u t e the s a m e . ANIMAL DISEASE R E S E A R C H LABORATORY (36) The Congress is considering an appropriation for construction of an Animal Disease Research Laboratory for the United States Department of Agriculture. It is planned to locate this laboratory at or near a land-grant college having a veterinary school or a strong animal disease research program. The site is to be selected in consultation with representatives of the livestock industry, veterinary profession, state departments of agriculture, and land-grant colleges. The University of Illinois has been invited to send representatives to a hearing before a site committee in St. Louis today, June 27. With the approval of the Board of Trustees Committees on Buildings and Grounds and General Policy, I have asked Dean L. B. Howard of the College of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and others, to represent the University at this hearing to propose that the U.S.D.A. laboratory be constructed on or near the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. According to information received from the United States Department of Agriculture, it is seeking an appropriation of approximately $19,000,000 for the construction of these facilities for animal disease research and control programs. The special requirements for location include: 200 to 400 acres of land; sewage facilities that will require outlets for 150,000 to 200,000 gallons per day of sterile and treated effluent; 250,000 to 300,000 gallons of water per day; electric current of 4,000 to 4,500 k.w. per h o u r ; proximity to major railroad and air line connections and adjacent to hard-surfaced roads; availability per year of 1,000 each cattle, swine, sheep, locally produced; it must be near a community that can readily absorb 100 to 200 new families and fill 100 to 200 nonscientific positions; and it must not be close to an industrial, metropolitan strategic area. O n m o t i o n o f M r . H e r r i c k , t h e B o a r d a p p r o v e d all o f t h e s t e p s being t a k e n .