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3. The following was presented from the of Secretary the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching :
My
dear President Schurman :
"November 10, 1915.
Dr. Pritchett asks me to send you formal notification of the grant
ing by the executive committee, on November 5th, of a pension of
$500 annually, beginning November 15, 1915, to be paid, through
Cornell University, to Mrs. Ellen C. Mandeville,
The payment will be included in the November check.
Very truly yours,
Clyde Furst, Secretary.
4. The matter of placing a tablet in Sage Chapel commemorating the
gift of Mrs. Dean Sage to increase the preachership fund established
by
her husband was referred to the President with power.
5. Resolved,
That on account of the large number of students in
elementary geology, H. N. Wolcott be appointed Assistant in Geology
from November nth to the end of the current term and that he receive
a compensation of $125 for that period.
5. President Schurman reported that Artur Weese who had been
appointed Schiff Lecturer for a period in the second term of the cur
rent academic year would be unable because of the continuance of the
war to accept the appointment.
7. Professor M. W. Sampson requested that on account of condi
tions in Europe the sabbatic leave which had been granted him for
the second term of the current academic year be postponed to the
second term of the year 1916-17 and it was voted that the request be
granted.
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8. Miss Dorthea von Doenhoff was appointed to a scholarship carry
free tuition in the Ithaca Division of the Medical College for the
year 1915-16.
9. Resolved, That the title of Dean Irvine be changed from Professor
of Practice and Procedure to Professor of Law.
10. $40, or so much thereof as may be necessary, was appropriated
for copying the lectures on the History and Evolution of Law de
livered by Judge Finch.
11. Leave of absence without prejudice to salary was granted to
Professor R. C. Carpenter for a period of approximately a month to
enable him to serve upon the committee of the National Academj' of
Science engaged in considering the possibility of controlling the
slides at the Panama Canal.
12. The Treasurer reported the receipt through the Cornellian
Council of $7,500 from the Memorial Committee of the Class of 1905,