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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[December 20

test with high grades in which case they receive credit for Rhetoric IOI and go directly into the second-semester course, Rhetoric 102. T h e proposal originated in the Department of English, was approved by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and by the Provost before being passed by the University Senate. There is hereby filed with the Secretary of the Board for record a letter from the Chairman of Freshman Rhetoric, Professor Charles W . Roberts, and the Head of the Department of English, Professor Gordon N . Ray, explaining the reasons for this proposal. I concur.

On motion of Mrs. Holt, this recommendation was approved.

GEORGE A. MILLER ENDOWMENT (6) T h e George A. Miller Endowment Committee has recommended that funds from the endowment income be allocated to support a Journal of Mathematics to be published at the University of Illinois with some aid from the American Mathematical Society. This will be an annual journal of approximately six hundred pages to be issued quarterly in March, June, September, and December, the first number to appear in March, 1957. An editorial board set up by the Department of Mathematics, with the approval of the University Press Board, will determine editorial policy, but the over-all control will be with the University Press Board. I t is contemplated that some of the editors may be from other institutions. T h e initial allocations will be $5,200 for the year 1956-57 and $7,750 for 105758. Once the journal is established and is producing an income from subscriptions, the annual contributions from the Miller fund will be reduced, but the Committee is ready to continue support of a successful journal. This appeals to me as an effective means of supporting the University's leadership in this field. The Committee also recommends that $3400 be allocated from the endowment income to establish two graduate fellowships for the year 1056-57, with stipends of $1,700 each, but without exemption from tuition fees, to be known as the "George A. Miller Fellowships" and to be awarded on recommendation of the Graduate College under the same conditions as other graduate fellowships. There will be no limit on the field of study. I concur in the above recommendations. O n m o t i o n of M r . B i s s e l l , t h e s e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n s w e r e a p p r o v e d . SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR NONRECURRING EXPENDITURES (7) T h e Committee on Nonrecurring Appropriations recommends assignments of funds from the General Reserve as follows: 1. College of Agriculture, purchase of one and one-half ton truck for Department of Dairy Science $ 3 000 2. Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, remodeling in Noyes Laboratory, Chemistry Annex, and the East Chemistry Building. 50 000 3. College of Fine and Applied Arts, to improve the ventilating and temperature control of the Smith Music Hall practice rooms 20 000 4. School of Journalism and Communications, for equipment, and office and laboratory expense for instructional programs in broadcasting-televisionmotion pictures 18 000 5. Physical Plant Department, remodeling in Altgeld Hall in connection with moving the Mathematics Library into the former Law L i b r a r y . . . 3 720 6. College of Veterinary Medicine, equipment for the Departments of Veterinary Pathology and Hygiene and Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology 3 100 7. Chicago Undergraduate Division, remodeling and equipment for departments in engineering sciences 12 500 Total $110 320 I concur.

On motion of Mr. Livingston, these appropriations were made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Bissell, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Swain, Mrs. Watkins, Mr. Williamson; no, none; absent, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Stratton.