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1903.]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HARVEY MEDICAL COLLEGE.

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The Committee on the College of Medicine made the following report with regard to affiliation with Harvey Medical College, and the report was adopted.

URBANA, I L L I N O I S , J u n e 7, 1904.

To the Board of Trustees: Your Committee on the College of Medicine, to which was referred the communication from the Harvey Medical College of Chicago regarding affiliation of the College with the University, desires to report that it has examined into the Harvey Medical College and finds that it is a medical college in the city of Chicago which holds sessions in the evenings only, has little in the way of educational tests for admission, but is doing very good work in the medical field. Your Committee finds that our own College of Medicine, which is a day college, is accomplishing all that this University may well do at present in the regular or old school field of medicine, and therefore, recommends that this Board decline the proposition of the Harvey Medical College and that the Secretary be instructed to notify the Harvey Medical College authorities of this action. Eespectfully submitted,

S. A. ALEX. BTJLLARD, MCLEAN,

Committee

on the College of

Medicine.

APPOINTMENT OF LIEUT. COL. FECHET.

Mr. McLean offered the following resolution with regard to Lieutenant Colonel Edmund G. Fechet, which was unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, The term of Lieutenant-Colonel Fechet for which he was assigned by the War Department for duty as military instructor of this University is about to terminate, and WHEREAS, I t would seem to be unwise to change the head of this department a t this time when the University is without a President, and WHEREAS, The military discipline of our military corps is excellent, and exerts a proper influence throughout the University, and Colonel Feehet has proved to be an excellent military officer, and has the respect and friendship of the students of his department, and has his command in a satisfactory condition, as shown by the reports of the United States inspecting officers—due entirely to Colonel Fechet's tact and aptness in governing young men, therefore, be it Resolved, That the President of the University be instructed to communicate with the Military Secretary of the United States Army at Washington, and request that Lieutenant-Colonel Fechet be assigned for duty to this Universiy, and that he be re-detailed to take command of the military department.

It was ordered that a committee of three, of which Mr. McLean should be chairman, should be appointed by the President of the Board to confer with Colonel Fechet. The bill of The Audit Company of Illinois for services in examining the accounts of the Business Manager and the Treasurer amounting to $12042, was ordered paid on approval of the Committee on Finance.