The Physics Department subject file includes correspondence with administrators, deans, department heads, and faculty; reports, memoranda, and publications of the Department of Physics related to academic policy; admissions; affirmative action; appointments and promotion; budgets; building projects; colloquia and seminars; courses and curricula; department, school, and campus committees; professional societies and organizations; research grants; salaries; space allocation; and sabbaticals. Principal correspondents include Gail Adams, Gerald Almy, Ansel Anderson, Peter Axel, Robert Becker, George Beggs, Gilberto Bernardini, David Campbell, D. C. Drucker, W. L. Everitt, Donald Kerst, P. Gerald Kruger, F. Wheeler Loomis, Bess Matteson, Clark Robinson, Harry Edward Seidel, Frederick Seitz, and Ralph O. Simmons. Subjects include the American Institute of Physics; Argonne National Laboratory; Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology; betatron; cataracts; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Control Systems Laboratory; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Coordinated Science Laboratory; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate College; High Energy Physics Group; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Materials Research Laboratory; McMillan Award; Midwestern Universities Research Association; National Science Foundation; nonacademic personnel; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nuclear Physics Laboratory; patents; picnics; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Physics Research Laboratory; PLATO; safety; teaching evaluation; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate Studies Committee; U. S. Office of Naval Research; and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University Research Board.