Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1926 [PAGE 130]

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1924]

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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In witness whereof the parties hereto have caused this agreement to be signed by their officers and the corporate seals to be affixed on the day and year first above written. The Board of Trustees Recommended for approval or the University of Illinois Lloyd Morey By Comptroller Approved By Secretary President Approved as to legal form and validity The Northwestern Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church Legal Counsel By President By Secretary After informal discussion of this matter with our Legal Counsel, I regret that I do not see m y way clear to recommend the approval of this proposed agreement. M y reason is as follows: At best the income which we can get from the capital fund $2,500 will be $150 per year. This is $15 to $20 less than the fee per annum charged medical students who are residents of Illinois, and about $50 less than the fee charged non-Illinois residents. To the extent that the income fails to meet the dues the University will be giving free tuition for sectarian religious purposes. This, it seems to me, it m a y not do. If your Board has power to give a year's tuition in the College of Medicine to a nominee of a religious society which pays towards the dues of said student a sum equal to the income of this fund, which is less than the established dues, then you would have power to do the same thing if the income were $100 or $1 instead of $150. The Board of Trustees undoubtedly has the power to establish a class of scholarships in the Medical College or in any other department of the University free of tuition or with partial remission of tuition, but not for such a purpose as training foreign missionaries nor for nominees of sectarian religious bodies. If the above view is correct we can lawfully accept this scholarship only on condition that the income shall apply to the dues and the holder of the scholarship shall make up the deficit. O n motion of M r . Trimble, the President of the University w a s authorized to accept this e n d o w m e n t under the conditions that the stipend paid to the beneficiary shall not exceed the i n c o m e from the fund, a n d that in case of a vacancy in a n y year the income shall be added to the capital fund.

APPOINTMENT OF DR. ALBERT BACHEM

(9) O n recommendation of Dr. D. J. Davis and six other doctors of the staff of the College of Medicine, Dean Eycleshymer recommends the appointment of Dr. Albert Bachem, now X-ray and Radium expert at Mercy Hospital, to the position of Professor of Radiology and Director of Laboratory in the Dispensary at the College of Medicine at a salary of $4,200 a year beginning December 1, 1924, and continuing until September 1, 1915. I recommend approval. On motion of Mr. Trees, this appointment was made.