Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 1 [PAGE 16]

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organization of the " W a r Committee Conferences;" Professor G M. Thompson, for his extraordinarily effective service on the Fourth I ibert) Loan and the last V. M. C . A. drive; Professor H. I Harrington, for his cheerful and effective cooperation in publicity service. I need not i pear what I have said elsewhere about the importance of Dean Clark's work on the University War Ue^ords. I he greater part nt the service of this Committee was, of course* performed In-fore I became chairman. Whatever success may have been achieved during the past few months is largely due to the ordinal organization of this work bv Dean Kinlev and the momentum which he was able to develop last year. I appreciate very much your own hearty cooperation. Recommendations—I request, first that this report he accepted as the final report of the University War Committee and that the Committee he now discharged. I venture also to offer a few recommendations regarding possible future action of the University more or less related to the emergency service of this Committee. I should add that these recommendations are made on my own responsibility, without opportunity for formal committee action. 1. That as generous provision as possible be made for continuing and pushing to an early conclusion the work of Dean Clark on the University War Records. He is, I understand, willing to keep a general oversight of this work, but he should have a competent assistant to relieve him of the details. I recommend an appropriation of f 2000 for this purpose, to be expended under Dean Clark's direction. It would be regrettable if the University should let slip the opportunity to make this record as nearly complete as may be humanly possible. Ultimately the result should be put in book form. 2. That the University take steps at once toward the compilation of a record of its corporate activities in connection with the war, and of the civilian services of individual members of its faculties. Dean Clark's record is, I understand, confined to individual members of the University and alumni in the military and naval services. 3. T h a t steps be taken to make effective the present interest in a permanent memorial structure for the Illinois men who fell in the Great War. either on the lines indicated in section VI of this report or otnerwise, as may seem aesiraDie. 4. That provision be made for binding the series of leaflets issued by the War Committee. I have asked Professor Larson, Professor Windsor, and Mr. Cunningham to serve as a committee investigate the feasibility of making up fifty or more bound sets report of this

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