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1905 J

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

"CHICAGO, Feb. 16, 1905.

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"President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois: "MY DEAR DR. JAMES—In reply to your favor of the 9th inst., I would state that I am willing to endow the Department of Pathology with the sum of $25,000 on condition that I have the income at the rate of 4 per cent on that amount as an annuity during the life of myself and my wife, when it becomes absolutely the property of the University. This proposition is conditional upon the University of Illinois acquiring absolute ownership of the College of Physicians and Surgeons through the passage of a bill by the present Legislature authorizing the acquisition of the property. "All details of the proposed gift can be arranged with you or the Trustees later, Yours very truly,

"D. A. K. STEELE."

T h e funds in both these cases are in bonds and stocks of the college. T h e stockholders of the College of Physicians and Surgeons are willing,, further, to contribute a considerable sum, the exact amount has not yet been determined, toward endowment of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in case the University should take over the college. These supscriptions are also to be payable in the stock of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. 12. At the last meeing of the Board of Trustees it was voted that the legislative committee should introduce a bill into the present Legislature authorizing the Trustees to acquire the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The proposed bill and an argument in favor of its passage were presented. Voted that the draft of the proposed bill be approved and that it be printed, together with the a r g u m e n t for the same, and distributed to members of the Legislature. Voted, further, that the Medical Committee of the Board of Trustees be requested to secure the introduction and urge the passage of said bill.

L E A S E OF F A R M

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LANDS.

m Mr. Kerrick, to whom the matter had been referred, presented a lease by which Messrs. W . I. Saffell and L. E . F o r d leased, with the option of purchase, the n. w. % of the n. e. % of 19-19-9 east of the' 3d P . M . to the University of Illinois, and the President and Secretary of the Board were instructed to execute the lease.

S C H O O L OF E D U C A T I O N .

T h e special committee on a school of education made the following report, which was adopted:

URBANA, Feb. 20, 1905.

To the Board of Trustees: Your special committee, appointed January 17, 1905, "to report to the Board upon the advisability of establishing a school of education with special reference to the preparation of teachers for secondary schools," begs leave to report that it is expressly stated in University Bulletin No. 13—Announcements for 1904-5 and Register for 1903-4—page 87, that "the department of educa tion aims to meet the needs of the prospective secondary teacher and of the prospective city superintendent." The resolution, therefore, seems to direct the committee to report upon the advisability of expanding what is now a department of the College of Literature and Arts into a separate school or college.