Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1910 [PAGE 539]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

1910]

PROCEEDINGS OF 0?HE BOARD OE TRUSTEES.

501

ADDITIONAL E X P E N D I T U R E S ON N E W N A T U R A L H I S T O R Y B U I L D I N G .

The comptroller stated that additional expenditures were being made on account of the new N a t u r a l History building. The matter was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for investigation and report. H e also stated that further expenditures were being made on the museum addition to the Natural History building, and this matter also was referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds for investigation and ^ report.

COLLEGE OE M E D I C I N E .

The president of the University presented the following papers: 1. A copy of a letter from the president of the University, dated Jan. 17, 1910, to Dr. William E. Quine, dean of the University Medical School, appended to which is a copy of a letter received from N. P. Colwell, secretary of the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association, dated Jan. 15, 1910.

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, I I I . , Jan. 17, 1910.

Br. Wm. E. Quine, 103 State street, Chicago, Illinois: MY DEAR DOCTOR:—I am inclosing a copy of a letter received from Mr. Colwell. It explains itself. Faithfully yours,

EDMUND J. JAMES.

P. S.—I wish you would lay this communication before the executive faculty of the medical school and ask them what will be their recommendations as to these three points: First, entrance requirements in regard to which I think we have come to an understanding; second, admitting students to advanced standing from low grade medical schools; third, participation of members of the faculty of the P. and S. in instruction in low grade medical schools. E. J. J.

[COPY.] 535 DEARBORN AVENUE, CHICAGO, Jan. 15, 1910.

President Edmund J. James, University of Illinois, JJroana, Illinois: DEAR SIR—At our next conference to be held at the Congress Hotel Annex, Monday, Feb. 28, 1910, the Council on Medical Education expects to present a report showing which medical colleges of the United States and Canada -are acceptable and which are not acceptable. After a very careful investigation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, we regret to find among other things three main defects which we feel are of too serious a nature to permit us to include that college in our acceptable list; We are writing you about these points, hoping that there may be some way to have them corrected. The first defect is an apparent non-enforcement of entrance requirements, which matter, however, we understand you have already taken up with the college. The second defect is that advanced standing is sometimes granted for work done in low grade medical schools, which is hardly consistent with TTniversity standards, and which is a discrimination against the college's •own full-course students. The third and most serious defect, however, is that six members of the faculty of- the College of Physicians and Surgeons are also on the faculty of the Jenner Medical College, a night school, and one of the five or six lowest grade and poorest equipped medical colleges in the United States. Some of these men are among those who are in chief control of the latter institution, and who are therefore responsible for its existence. We feel that such conditions are not in accordance with the "best interests of medical education. We cannot believe that the faculty