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sary for effective work in their respective institutions. A specialty will be made of school and social hygiene, something which is not provided for at present on an adequate scale in any American university. It may further be said that, so far as 'I am concerned, the University of Illinois if granted funds by the legislature for this school will not undertake to dominate or control the medical policy of the state. I do not conceive that to be a function of the University at all. The decision of such questions belongs to the people of the state through their recognized public authorities. But the University if given adequate funds will undertake to provide for the youth of this commonwealth facilities for medical study which will be the equal of the facilities offered anywhere else in the world, so that our youth will not be obliged to go to New York or Philadelphia or Boston or London or Paris, or Berlin, or Vienna in order to prepare themselves properly for their work as servants of the public health of the people of this great commonwealth. With malice toward none, with, charity toward all, holding out a sympathetic and co-operating hand toward all other worthy institutions, public and private—asking and accepting the aid and support of all schools and sects in medicine let us, in binding up the wounds of a broken and diseased society move forward to do our part in organizing all the forces in our society to safeguard, protect, and advance the health of each and every citizen! Let us all, students, fa-culties, trustees, legislators and other citizens of the commonwealth,—in fact all,—resolve that we will keep full high advanced the standards of medical training and research until the reputation of Chicago and Illinois in the field of public health shall rival that of the oldest and best centers of learning in Europe or America!

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