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1903.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OE TRUSTEES

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A lengthy discussion ensued in reference to the details of the proposed agreement. In the course of this the Board took a recess until i .-30 p. m. for lunch. Upon reconvening the same parties were present. Dr. Steele announced that during the recess the Board of Directors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons had held a meeting and authorized him to announce that that College would agree to the recommendations of the report of the Committee of the Board except as to the cost of ordinary repairs in the rooms to be rented to the College of Dentistry, and had also agreed that if the proposed plan should be consummated the University might install the School of Pharmacy in the same building and that if this were done the rent paid by said school should go to the College of Dentistry. After much discussion the proposed agreement with the Chicago College of Dental Surgery was modified so as to read as follows, and in this form the report of the committee was, on motion of Mr. McLean, seconded by Mrs. Evans, unanimously adopted, the representatives of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the University College of Medicine assenting thereto: CONTKACT BETWEEN THE CHICAGO COLLEGE OP DENTAL SUKGEBY AND THE UNIVEESITY OF ILLINOIS. Whereas, The Chicago College of Dental Surgery is conducting a College of Dentistry in the city of Chicago, Illinois, and, Whereas, The University of Illinois, through its Medical College, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, is conducting a School of Dentistry in the city of Chicago, and, Whereas, It is believed by the University of Illinois, its Medical College, and the Chicago College of Dental Surgery that the two dental schools if united and run by one management could be made to fill a wider and larger usefulness in professional education than at present, and at a less expense, and, Whereas, I t is the desire of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery that the University of Illinois take charge of and continue the educational work which is now being done by the said Chicago College of Dental Surgery, and, Whereas, I t is the desire of the University of Illinois to enlarge and improve the educational work in dentistry which it is now doing by taking control of and continuing the work now being done by the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, Now, therefore, To accomplish these ends the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and the University of Illinois have entered into the following agreement, to-wit: 1. .This indenture is made this 30th day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Three, between the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, a corporation duly incorporated and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois, party of the first part, and the University of Illinois, a corporation duly incorporated and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Illinois, party of the second part.