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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

[Sept. 19,

MEETING O F SEPTEMBER 19, 1903. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois met at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, September 19, 1903, at 10 :oo o'clock a. m., in pursuance of the following call issued by the Secretary September 13, 1903.

At the call of the President, Mr. F . L. Hatch, there will be a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago, at 10 o'clock a. m., Saturday, September 19, 1903, to consider the question of affiliation with the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and such other business as may be duly presented.

There were present Messrs. Bullard, Hatch, Kerrick, McLean and Nightingale and Mrs. Abbott, Mrs. Alexander and Mrs. Evans; absent Governor Yates and Messrs. Bayliss, Dickirson and McKinley. President Draper was present. In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. Pillsbury, Mr. Bullard was appointed Secretary, Pro Tern.

AFFILIATING THE CHICAGO COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY.

The Committee on the College of Medicine, wTith President Draper and the Business Manager, made a report as follows upon the matter of affiliating the Chicago College of Dental Surgery:

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, P R E S I D E N T ' S OFFICE,

September 19, 1903. To the Board of Trustees: The Committee on the College of Medicine with the President and Business Manager of the University, to which was referred the matter of acquiring the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, respectfully reports as follows: I n the prosecution of our work we very early became satisfied that the standing of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery was excellent, and that the University would be strengthened and the interests of dental education would be profited by acquiring the same, and that there would be economy of administration in associating the work with the Illinois College of Dentistry now operated by the University through the College of Physicians and Surgeons. We advised with the Dean and Actuary of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and were assured that that college would cordially approve of the acquisition of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, and would be willing to give over the Illinois College of Dentistsry to the University, to the end that the two schools might be organized together and become a College of Dentistry