Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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1917] UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 299 son; noes, none; absent, Mr. Blair, Mr. Lowden, Mr. Trevett, Mr. Ward. STATUS OF APPROPRIATION BILLS (12) A report on the status of the appropriation bills in the General Assembly, with particular reference to the building program. No action was taken in this matter. MEDICAL INSTRUCTION TO GO ON AS USUAL (13) A letter from Dr. D. A. K. Steele reporting that at the conference of deans of medical colleges, some forty-six in number, held in the Munsey Building in Washington, D. C, with the committee representing the National Council on Defense, it was the unanimous opinion of the deans that the present emergency did not warrant any interruption of the regular curriculum of lectures for freshman, sophomore, and junior students in our American medical schools, and that it was inadvisable to give a continuous course of instruction extending through the summer months. It appears from this that it is the opinion of the most competent men m the country that it would be undesirable to attempt to speed up the graduation of students of Class A medical schools any further than we have already done. We have released any members of the Senior class who desired it from further attendance on lectures, have given them an advance examination, and have issued a certificate signed by the Dean of the College of Medicine which admits them after examination to enrollment as first lieutenants in the naval medical service with the understanding that they would enter on an intensive course of three months in the Naval Medical School and Hospital at Washington, and that their diplomas would be issued at the time of our regular graduating exercises, June 13, 1917. Some eight or ten of the present seniors in the College of Medicine have been given this permission, though they have not all been admitted to the Naval School, owing to the fact that there is no room. This would seem to imply that the most necessary thing for our colleges of medicine to do is to keep the undergraduates busily at work following their studies so as to prepare themselves as soon as possible for taking up effective work in the Army and Navy. No action was taken in this matter. MEDICAL GRADUATES IN STATE BOARD EXAMINATIONS (14) A report showing that the graduates of our College of Medicine have passed with the lowest percentage of failures the State Board examinations for license to practise medicine in the various states. This report was received for record. REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREES IN SERVICE MEDICINE—HOSPITAL (15) A letter from Mr. C. M. McConn, Clerk of the Senate, concerning requirements fpr graduation in the College of Medicine,
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