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1911]

PROCEEDINGS OE THE BOARD OE TRUSTEES.

TO

Meeting of February 28, 1911.

A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois was held on Tuesday, February £8, 1911, at 11:30 a. m., in the LaSalle Hotel, in the city of Chicago, pursuant to the following notice sent out by the secretary pro tern, on February 20,, 1 9 1 1 : Upon the call of the president, Mr. W; L. Abbott, there will be a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois at the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1911, at 10:00 o'clock a. m., to consider such matters as the committees of the board anal the President of the University may submit, and such other business as may be duly presented. The following members were present: President Abbott, Mrs. Bahrenburg, Governor Deneen, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit. President James was present. Mr. H . E. Cunningham was appointed secretary pro tern. The usual order of business was suspended, and the president of the. University submitted the following matters for consideration: CHANGES IN LEASE. 1. A recommendation that the present lease between the University of Illinois and the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the property and plant of the latter in the city of Chicago, bearing date of Aug. 12, 1910, and in effect Sept. 1, 1910, printed on pages 3 to 5 of the report of the Board of Trustees for Sept. 20,. 1910, be modified by striking out the closing sentence of paragraph 4 on page 3 of the» lease, which reads as follows: "It is further agreed that at any time that this lease is ended either by its expiration or forfeiture, the party of jthe second part will return the schools to the party of the first part." Also by striking out the words "and schools," in the next to the last line of paragraph 6 on page 5 of the lease. Further, that the president and secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University be authorized to agree to, and, on behalf of the board, to make such modification. ' The purpose of this modification is to make it perfectly clear that the medical school belongs to the. University of Illinois, and not to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and that the University is free at any time, upon the expiration -of the lease of the property, to locate the school in other quarters either given by the State or private individuals or leased from other parties. In order to make quite clear the relations of the University medical school to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, President James requested the board of directors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons to make the said modifications in the lease.