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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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2. Physical Plant Department, razing the building and adjacent frame garage at 834 South Wolcott, Chicago I 200 3. Department of Orthodontia, remodeling of small locker room for laboratory space 2 500 4. College of Pharmacy, purchase of a crawler-type tractor to be used at the Drug Plant and Horticultural Experiment Station in Cook County (to replace an 18-year-old obsolete tractor) 3 300 5. College of Pharmacy, purchase of equipment 2 100 6. Department of Biological Chemistry, purchase of equipment 1 750 7. Medical Social Work, remodeling of quarters in the Research and Educational Hospitals I 450 Urbana-Champaign Campus 8. Division of Communications, television operations and motion picture unit 86 545 9. College of Agriculture, pick-up truck for Dixon Springs Experiment Station (to replace 1949 Jeep pick-up truck) 1 500 10. Department of Mechanical Engineering, purchase of equipment 8 000 11. Institute of Aviation, purchase of Jeep truck with fire-fighting equipment 3 000 12. Small Homes Council, space laboratory and one-car garage for space design criteria research program 2 500 13. Additional storage facilities in attic of Administration Building (West).. 21 700 14. College of Agriculture, minor improvements in Horticulture Field Laboratory and purchase of equipment 3 000 15. School of Music, for recordings of performances by School of Music ensembles 3 000 16. Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, purchase of equipment 2 300 17. Department of Chemistry, purchase of distilled water equipment 3 500 18. Electronic Digital Computer, purchase of equipment 14 000 19. Business Office, purchase of equipment for Urbana-Champaign and Chicago Divisions 20 342 20. Elementary Laboratory School, purchase of equipment 45 000 21. Noyes Laboratory of Chemistry, remodeling and improvements 57 130 Total $284 817 I recommend that these appropriations be made from the General Reserve Fund.

On motion of Mr. Johnston, these appropriations were made by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Fornof, Mr. Grange, Mr. Hickman, Mrs. Holt, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Megran, Mrs. W a t k i n s ; no, none; absent, Mr. Herrick, Mr. Nickell, Mr. Stevenson.

R E P O R T O F A S S I G N M E N T S O F F U N D S AUTHORIZED BY THE P R E S I D E N T O F THE UNIVERSITY (8) The President has authorized the following assignments from the General serve Fund: 1. Library, for the purchase of the original manuscript score of Igor Stravinsky's " M a v r a " $ 1 2. Bureau of Educational Research, rental of quarters (in the Parade Ground Housing Units) and telephone service for research on child development I 3. Graduate College, equipment and expense 20 (This is a partial restoration for one year of funds previously budgeted but which were eliminated from the operating budget for 1952-1953 as presented to the Board of Trustees for approval on July 16, 1952.) 4. Physical Plant Department Minor improvements at Urbana 10 Minor improvements at Chicago 5 (As the result of changing conditions, e.g. increases in registrations and staff, departments of instruction request minor improvements in classrooms, laboratories, and offices to provide the facilities needed to carry on their work effectively. These requirements can not be fully anticipated when budgets are prepared and to provide for such improvements, whose costs are less than $500 per item, a standing fund is needed. This

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