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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.

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of the college has full knowledge of these defects, since to our knowledge it contains a large number of men of high ideals who hold prominent places among educators and who, we feel sure, would heartily support you in any effort to bring about better conditions. Knowing your personal interest in higher educational standards we are writing, you frankly about these matters, since it is our desire to aid in any way we can in the building up of our medical schools. We very much hope to receive the assurance that the defects alluded to will be corrected, whereupon we would be enabled to continue the college in our list of acceptable schools. Awaiting with interest your reply and with best wishes, we are, Yours very sincerely,

COUNCIL ON MEDICAL EDUCATION, Per N. P. COLWELL,

Secretary. 2. Copy of a letter dated Jan. 27, 1910, from the president of the University to Dr. William E. Quine, dean of the University School.

[COPY.] UEBANA-CHAMPAIGN, I I I . , Jan. 27, 1910.

Dr. Wm. E. Quine, 103 State street, Chicago, Illinois: MY DEAR DOCTOR QUINE—I have received the notice of the meeting of the executive faculty of the medical school to be held tomorrow evening. I am very sorry that I do not feel quite well enough to undertake the trip to Chicago. I should have been glad to meet with the executive faculty on this occasion, for I feel that you have before you some extremely important matters which call for very careful deliberation and perhaps heroic action at one or two points. I wish you would submit the following communications to the executive faculty, read the same and have them fully discussed. 1. The following extracts from a letter just received by me from President Henry S. Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation, dated Jan. 24, 1910.

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"DEAR PRESIDENT JAMES—Since seeing you I have had the medical department of the University re-examined, and with one small and unimportant exception this re-examination confirms the facts brought out by the first, and the dean of the school was quite willing to admit this. * * * I hope to show you that we are willing to go to every possible exertion to do full just-ice to the University of Illinois in this matter. At the same time I am bound to say that as the situation now stands it seems to me that the University of Illinois is injuring medical education in the State, not helping it, by the continuance of its medical school. "Very sincerely yours,

HENRY S. PRITCHETT."

This indicates in a general way what the present attitude of the foundation is on the subject of tne medical school of the University of Illinois. 2. The report of the Carnegie Foundation upon the medical school, a. copy of which I sent you sometime ago, and which I presume you have in your files. It is a very severe criticism upon the school, and although it is in some respects incorrect, yet with these minor corrections, the foundation will undoubtedly stand by its criticisms. 3. The letter from the council on medical education of the American Medical Association, received from the secretary, a copy of which was sent you, and an additional copy of which I am inclosing, calling attention-to three defects in the College, which will not permit the American Medical Association to include the college in its acceptable list.