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would secure the control of this property through the ownership of the stock, and present the same to the University. After due deliberation the trustees voted that they would accept the property in ease the alumni and other friends of medical education should present the entire stock in a block on or before February 1, 1913. The committee immediately began to work and by active and energetic means, contrary 1 think to the expectation of nearly everybody as to what was possible, all the stock issued by the College of Physicians and Surgeons was soon secured either by the donation on the part of people owning it, or by the purchase of the stock from the owners with money subscribed by persons interested in medical education. It was then offered in a block to the board of trustees, on the 31st day of January, 1913; so that the conditions set by the board at its meeting on September 19, 1912, were fully met. The trustees at their meeting held on February 12, 1913, voted to accept the property of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and authorized the President of the University to reopen the medical school in the plant thus asquired. This plant consists of two important and two lesser buildings. One consists of the old medical building erected by the College of Physicians and Surgeons at an early period of its existence to house the medical school which it organized, subsequently enlarged by a considerable addition for laboratory purposes. The other large building consists of the remodeled and reconstructed West Side High School building purchased from the city of Chicago for this purpose in the year 1901. A laboratory annex to this building and a heating plant which serves all the buildings, constitute the other physical structures of the institution erected upon a frontage of two hundred and seventy feet upon Honore street, with a maximum depth of two hundred and sixty-seven feet, containing ample floor space for the conduct of an adequate medical school. The property is encumbered with a mortgage indebtedness of two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars, entailing an annual interest charge of fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. We are met here today to signalize the reopening of the medical school of the University of Illinois. The trustees have authorized me to accept the employes of the College of Physicians and Surgeons as University employes in the medical department until June 30, 1913. They have also authorized me to continue the appointment of all members of the faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons as members of the University faculty until the same date, June 30, 1913. Due notice will be sent to each person so appointed. I am also authorized to conduct the medical school upon the basis of the budget authorized by the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the present academic year. As noted above, the state legislature has twice already by an over* whelming vote endorsed the policy of public support of medical re* search and training. The trustees are now asking the legislature for the sum of a hundred thousand dollars per annum for the support of the medical department; and I am asking you, as members of this institution, students and professors alike, T am appealing to the alumni

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