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1905]

PKCEEDINGS OF THE BOAKD OF TRUSTEES. CO-OPERATION WITH STATE BOARD OP HEALTH.

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5. The Acting Dean of the College of Science recommends a proposal of the Director of the State Water Survey, Professor Bartow, for a plan of cooperation between the State Board of Health and the State Water Survey. The State Board of Health agrees to appropriate $1,000 to the University to pay the salary of an assistant in the State Water Survey department who shall undertake chemical and bacteriological investigations for the State Board of Health. It is understood that the University shall select and appoint the said chemist and bacteriologist. In case this arrangement is approved, the Director of the Water Survey asks authority to engage a chemist at a salary of $1,000 to act as bacteriologist and chemist. The $60 a month already allowed for a second assistant in the Water Survey, which place has not yet been filled, will be used for obtaining additional equipment, and in paying the transportation and traveling expenses of the representative of the Water Survey in a thorough study of the municipal water supply of the State.

Voted that this matter be referred to the President of the University with power to act.

MEDICAL STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY. 6. The following communication in regard to the combined course in science and medicine is submitted by the faculty of the College of Science: "To the Faculty of the College of Science: The undersigned committee, appointed by the Dean, in accordance with an action of the general committee of this College, and instructed to report to the College faculty upon the relations of medical study at the University, respectfully reports as follows: WHEREAS, the combined course in science and medicine offered by this University, consisting of three years' prescribed work in the College of Science and three years' work in the College of Medicine, is and always has been one continuous six years' course intended throughout as a thorough and liberal preparation for the student for the practice of medicine; and WHEREAS, it contains all the scientific and professional matter of the ordinary four years' course at the Medical College, and much additional study of physics, chemistry, biology, and physiology prescribed because of their relations to the profesional medical studies, together with modern language, rhetoric, mathematics, military, and physical training not required at the Medical College but regarded by us as useful to the physician and necessary to graduation with the liberal degree, Resolved, that in our judgment this course unquestionably affords a much better general education and a materially better preparation for the practice of medicine than the four years' course of the Medical College, and that any discrimination against it as compared with this four years' course is unjust to the University, unfair to the student, and detrimental to the progress of medical education. We consequently advise that this course be henceforth be called a medical course, and that students registering in it with a view to graduation from a medical college be classed as medical students. We further recommend that such .students be registered as members of the College of Medicine from the beginning of the third year of this six years' course, and that they be carried on the register of the University as candidates for the bachelor's degree in science during the fourth year of this course, at the end of which they become entitled to that degree. We advise that University instructors who give instruction to students in this medical course in subjects required for the medical degree be regarded as instructors in the Medical College, and listed accordingly in the University publications. We also recommend that authority be requested for the publication of a new circular concerning medical education at the University which shall be drawn up in accordance with the facts here recited and the views here