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1901]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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M E E T I N G OF N O V E B E R 9, 1900.

The following call for a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was issued November 3, 1900: "By order of the President, Mr. McLean, the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois will hold a special meeting in the Trustees' Rooms, Library Building, Urbana, Illinois, at 9 o'clock a. m., Friday, November 9, 1900, to consider and act upon the report of the committee appointed to examine into the proposed purchase of the West Division high school, in Chicago, for the use of the College of Medicine, and such other business as may be duly presented." There were present at the meeting. Messrs Bullard, Hatch. McKay, McLean, Nightingale and Smith and Mrs. Flower, Mrs. Carriel, and Mrs. Abbott; absent Governor Tanner and Messrs. Bayliss and Fulkerson. President Draper was present.

PURCHASE OF W E S T DIVISION H I G H SCHOOL BUILDING.

Mr. Bullard, from the, special committee, made the following report and moved its adoption:

URBANA, NOV. 9, 1900.

lo the Board of Trustees, Your special committee to consider the request of the College of Medicine for the approval by this Board of the proposal to purchase the West Division high school property in Chicago, reports as follows: Your committee has taken the time to examine into the needs of the College of Medicine for enlarged quarters, the,character and condition of the West Division high school building, the value of said property, the price asked for the same, and probability of the College of Mediciene producing a surplus of revenue above expenses should the said building be purchased, and the probable effect of the said purchase upon the contract now in force, and the time of its termination. , After seriously considering the subject and obtaining as much information as possible from parties more conversant with certain phases of the question than your committee we have arrived at the following conclusions: (1) Your Committee believes that the need of the College for enlargement in its buildings is urgent; that the present building is barely large enough to accommodate the present attendance of 635, and not at all adequate to accommodate the increase of another year or two years. If the College is to grow— and we believe that if it remains a department of the university it must grow then at the farthest we cannot delay a year without doing incalculable injury to the College.