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UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S

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OSGOOD, CHARLES E., Professor of Psychology, and Research Professor in and

Director of the Institute of Communications Research — leave of absence, without pay, beginning June 26, 1958, and continuing through August 31, 1958, in addition to the leave of absence granted him for the 1958-59 academic year.

YOUNG, J. NELSON, Professor of Law —leave of absence, without pay, for one

year beginning September 1, 1958, and continuing through August 31, 1959, so that he may serve as a Visiting Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School for the school year 1958-59.

RETIREMENT

FREEMAN, MRS. RUTH C, Associate Professor of Home Economics, Emerita, effective May 1, 1958.

APRIL MEETINGS

Mr. Livingston called attention to the decision of the Board at its meeting on F e b r u a r y 18, 1958, to hold the April meeting on Thursday, April 17, 1958, at the Dixon Springs Experiment Station. H e suggested that for reasons of business expediency, and for the convenience of some of the Trustees, the Board might wish to reconsider its decision. On motion of M r s . W a t k i n s , the Board voted to hold t h e April meeting on T h u r s d a y , April 17, 1958, at Urbana-Champaign instead of at the Dixon Springs Experiment Station, and the President and Secretary of the B o a r d were authorized to determine t h e hour a n d place. It w a s the consensus of the Board that the M a y meeting scheduled for T h u r s d a y , M a y 29, 1958, be held at Dixon Springs E x p e r i ment Station but that final decision on this be deferred until the April meeting. T h e Secretary w a s authorized by the Chairmen of the Committees on General Policy, Buildings and Grounds, and Finance to schedule meetings of these Committees on April 17 in connection with the Board meeting on that day. EXECUTIVE SESSION At this point an executive session w a s requested and ordered for the consideration of the following items of business.

PURCHASE OF PROPERTIES AT 1 0 1 3 AND 1 I O I WEST GREEN STREET AND AT 1 1 0 4 WEST ILLINOIS STREET, URBANA

(18) The Director of the Physical Plant Department and the Vice-President and Comptroller recommend the purchase from Mrs. Lena M. Thompson and her husband, Finney W. Thompson, of the properties at 1013 and 1101 West Green Street and at 1104 West Illinois Street, Urbana, and two adjoining small tracts without street designations. The legal descriptions of the properties covered by this recommendation are: All of Lot Nine (9) of W. M. Goodwin's Addition to the City of Urbana, except therefrom the East 60 feet thereof, and also except therefrom the South 200 feet thereof; and The East Half (Ej4) of Lot Ten (10) of W. M. Goodwin's Addition to Urbana, except the South 168 feet thereof; and Commencing at the Southwest corner of Lot Nine (9) of W. M. Goodwin's Addition to Urbana, Illinois, running thence East on the North line of Illinois Street 75 feet, thence North 175 feet, thence West 75 feet, thence South on the West line of said Lot Nine (9), 175 feet to the place of beginning; and Beginning at a point 175 feet North of the Southwest corner of Lot Nine (9) of W. M. Goodwin's Addition to Urbana, Illinois, thence North 25 feet, thence East 8954 feet, thence North 41 feet to the Southwest corner of a tract of land formerly owned by Lucie H. Parr, thence East 60 feet, thence South 66 feet, thence West 149^2 feet to the place of beginning.