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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1904
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308 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. [June 6, which is within its borders. It has been the purpose of the University to reserve to itself the right of ultimate control over these Chicago departments, in order to assure the certainty that their standards should advance to and never fall below the University grade, and that the degrees which they confer shall stand for just as much as those conferred at the seat of the University, and for just as much as those conferred by any University in the country. The statement that the agreement was nullified because of the purpose of the University to remove certain teachers at the Dental College is both untrue and significant. The University had arrived at no such purpose but it had reserved of necessity the right of final action in that connection. Apparently the men who deserved removal were apprehensive of their dues. At the time of the negotiations, and to this day, the President of the Dental College insisted that not he but his associates were the wrongdoers—that he was doing all he could to have them carry out their agreements. On the other hand they asserted that he was the gailty party; that he gave other stockholders no information that they were surprised at the amount of debts disclosed and could not understand what had become of all the money. These conflicting statements have some bearing upon the controversy, but the University is quit of the whole matter and does not have to settle them. The Board adjourned to meet at 8130 o'clock Tuesday morning.
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