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Show School of Business ' University of Utah ' Q Q 3 .Y. Office of the Dean ' . . " ' AnnexyZlO ' Salt Lake City 1 ' ' April '7, 1919 Dr." A. 'Ray Olpin, Prosident,' - University of Utah Park Building Dear Bro 01pm: As you know, Dr. JR. Mahoney has requesteda leave or absencefor , the Spring quarter to work with the Library of Congress in Washington, D .0. I should like- to recomend that this particular request he granted. inasmuch as we have already made arrangements to take care of his teacha‘t'j in'g schedule, and satisfactory arrangements have been made to handlehis; 1.; ' research projects... , w e _ . - However, Dr. Mahoney has also requested that permission from theBe ' of Regents be secured to permit him to be may fromthe University about six months of the yearwhile Congress is in session, on a continuing basis; He further suggests that he will relinquish his administrative duties as Director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research providing he is i: allowed to retain his status as professor of Economics with tenure. but. wi- ' the privilege of being on Ieave each yearapproximately fifty per cent of '_ the time. He has requested that he be al1owed to employ a full-time secretary who would be stationed in Utah while here and would be stationed in Washington while there, but paid by the University to assist in c on his research projects. After talking this mter over with you and with Dr. Nelson, Associate... Director of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research, I have some doubts in my mind as to the advisibility, from an administrative point of? view, of some of Dr. Hahoney's proposals. In the first place, I doubt the advisability of making definite comitments as to leave of absence for more than a yearato~year basis. As I understand it, contracts are issued by the Regents only for a year at a time; however, if Dr. Hahoney is willing to give up his adminstrative duties, as he has indicated, I think we might handle the matter satisfactorily from year to year providing that is agree-b able with him and providing he can work out a satisfactory arrangement , the Library of Congress Reference Bureau. Furthermore, I questiOn thead:‘visability of permitting Dr. Malwney to have secretarial or editorial j " assistance paidfor by the {hiversity stationed in Washington, working wit |
