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1899.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

SCHOOL O F M E D I C I N E .

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T h e C o m m i t t e e on t h e School of Medicine made t h e following r e port, w h i c h was a d o p t e d :

CHICAGO, June 27, 1899.

lo the Board of Irustees of the University of Illinois. GENTLEMEN:—Your Committee on the School of Medicine reports that it has been officially notified of action by the Faculty of the School of Medicine withdrawing its former recommendations for an expenditure of $2,000 for aphysiological laboratory, for the engagement of a professor of physiology at a salary of $2,000 a year, and also for certain increases in salary, and substituting therefor the same salary list in force to continue at present, viz.: until October 1, 1899, and that it approves this said action and recommends that the Board concur therein. Your Committee also begs leave to refer to the Board for its action the rules presented by the Faculty of the School of Medicine to govern in the relations of the School of Medicine to the University of Illinois and to say that it has invited a committee of the Faculty of the School of Medicine to be present and explain the importance of the adoption of these rules. Respectfully submitted,

A. F. NIGHTINGALE,

Chairman.

RULES TO GOVERN RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND THE, UNIVERSITY.

1. The general statutes of the University shall apply to the School of Medicine, except in so far as special laws hereinafter provided may conflict therewith. 2. During the continuance of any lease of the College of Physicians and Surgeons by the University of Illinois the following special laws shall operate in the government and management of the School of Medicine. 3. The Faculty of the School of Medicine shall be made up of the President of the University, and the professors, associate professors, adjunct professors, and lecturers belonging to the corps of instruction of the School of Medicine and shall be known as the teaching faculty. 4. The President of the University and such members of the teaching faculty of the School of Medicine as hold stock in the College of Physiciaus and Surgeons shall constitute the executive faculty of the School of Medicine. 5. The teaching faculty may exercise legislative functions touching any matter appertaining exclusively to the internal work of the School of Medicine, except such matters as are reserved to the executive faculty. It shall appoint, in such manner as it may decide appropriate standing committees, to which any matter arising in the faculty meeting, shall, upon motion of any member, be referred for preliminary consideration and report. 6. The executive faculty shall have an advisory relation to the President and Business Manager of the University and to the Board of Trustees, with respect to all matters appertaining to the School of Medicine. It shall annually nominate to the Board of Trustees, through the President of the University, from its membership, a dean, an actuary, and a secretary for the School of Medicine. There shall be also reserved to the executive faculty the right to nominate * in like manner, candidates to fill vacancies in the corps of instruction, and it shall in like manner cooperate in determining the educational policy of the School. 7. The Dean, with the advice and consent of the executive faculty, shall recommend, as occasion may arise, the acceptance of resignations, or dismissals from the corps of instruction, and shall in'like manner, from time to time, recommend the discontinuance or establishment of chairs of instruction or the change of the title of any chair.