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1911]

PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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its medical plant in the city of Chicago for a period of one year from Sept. 1, 1910, with the right to renew for two two-year periods upon t h e same terms. T h e intention of t h e p a r t i e s was plain to t h e effect t h a t t h e University was leasing a medical plant for t h e use of its medical school, but t h e r e were certain expressions in the lease which m i g h t be interpreted to imply t h a t after all t h e medical school did not really belong to the University of Illinois, b u t w a s ' itself, a s a school, a .subject of contract between t h e University a n d t h e College of Physicians and Surgeons. (See m i n u t e s of t h e board for Sept. 20, 1910, pages 3-5.) I n order to m a k e it quite evident t h a t t h e medical school belongs to t h e University of Illinois and not to the College of Physicians a n d Surgeons, and t h a t the University is free at any time, upon t h e expiration of the lease of the property, to locate the school in other q u a r t e r s , the lease was modified by joint' action of the p a r t i e s in F e b r u a r y , 1911. At t h i s time the following sentences and words were struck out of t h e i n d e n t u r e as made on Aug. 12, 1910, namely, the closing sentence of p a r a g r a p h 4, page 3, of said lease, which reads as follows: " I t is further a g r e e d . t h a t a t any time t h a t t h i s lease is ended either by its expiration or forfeiture the p a r t y of t h e second p a r t will r e t u r n t h e schools to the p a r t y of the first part." Also by s t r i k i n g out the words "and schools," in line 18 of page 4, p a r a g r a p h 6 (see m i n u t e s o fthe board for Feb. 28, 1911, pages 79 and 80.) It appears t h a t certain other expressions of the same sort should be changed in t h e lease if one is to be made. I t is proposed, therefore, t h a t the new lease be changed in so far from the old lease t h a t in p a r a g r a p h 3, on page 4 of the m i n u t e s of the board for Sept. 20, 1910, in the seventh line, beginning with the second word, the phraseology shall be a s follows: "To t h e end t h a t said p a r t y of t h e second p a r t m a y assume the p e r m a n e n t and entire direction, control, and ownership of the schools of the College of Physicians and Surgeons." This would omit the following words in the next to the last line of the paragraph, viz: "which said p a r t y of the second p a r t hereby agrees to do from t h e commencement of and d u r i n g t h e said t e r m of t h e said lease," and emphasize still more strongly t h e fact t h a t the medical school belongs to the University of Illinois and not to the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and t h a t t h e giving up of the lease .will have no necessary connection w i t h t h e action of t h e trustees in r e g a r d to t h e medical school. The trustees may give up the lease and r e n t other property for t h e location of the school, or they may close t h e school in Chicago altogether, or they may remove it to Urbana-Champaign. I n a word t h e only relation of t h e University of Illinois to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in t h i s whole m a t t e r , should be simply t h a t of tenant" to landlord. DECORATION OF E N T R A N C E OF LINCOLN HALL. (6) A recommendation t h a t the sum of not to exceed one thousand doll a r s ($1,000.00) be appropriated for t h e decoration of t h e entrance of Lincoln Hall. T h i s - recommendation was approved. T h e committee adjourned.

W. A. F. L. P. L. ABBOTT, GROUT, JEEATCH,

C. M . M C C O N N ,

Gom)miUee.

Clerk.