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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1914
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1912] PEOOEEDINGS OF THE BOAED OF TKUSTEES. 99 continue to fail to do its duty by the citizens of this .State so long as it does not care adequately for this great public interest. All of which is respectfully submitted. COUNCIL OP ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, By EDWARD L. HEINTZ, M.D., President, HOWARD O. SHAFER, M.D., Vice-President, EMERY R. HATHURST,, M.D., Secretary, A. J. GRAHAM, M.D., Treasurer, CHARLES C. O'BYRNE, ROBERT W. MORRIS, M.D., Chairman Executive Necrologist. Committee, POSSIBLE REOPENING OF T H E MEDICAL SCHOOL IN CHICAGO; DONATION OF STOCK OF COLLEGE OF P. AND S. Dr. D. A. K. Steele, President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, who was present, was asked for his opinion on these resolutions of the Alumni Association. In response, Dr. Steele feelingly presented the strong sentiment on the part of the faculty, students, and alumni of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in favor of re-opening the Medical School of the University in Chicago, and discussed the probability of its being possible to obtain a donation of the stock of the College of Physicians and Surgeons to the University, on the condition that the University will undertake to re-open the school. Dr. Steele stated that he had already secured definite promises of donations of more than one-third of the total stock, and that he knew of another third which would probably be donated or else could be purchased at a low rate. It was voted that the members of the Board of Trustees look with great interest and favor on the proposition of the alumni of the Medical School and the efforts of the stockholders of the College of Physicians and Surgeons to turn over to the University the ownership and control of the college; and to refer the matter to the Committee on the College of Medicine for investigation and recommendation. COMPLAINT OF DR. MARTIN. President James presented a request from Dr. W. J. S. Martin, a dentist in the city of Chicago, to be heard in the matter of a complaint which he desired to present against the faculty of the College of Dentistry because of their failure to recommend his son, Carl D. Martin, for a degree at the last commencement. Dr. Martin was heard at length. In the discussion which followed Dr. Martin's statement, attention was called to the fact that under the terms of the statute, approved May 11, 1877, empowering the University to grant degrees, the trustees are not authorized to confer degrees except upon such persons as are recommended by the faculty; and that since Mr. Carl D. Martin has not been recommended for graduation by the faculty of the College of Dentistry, no action can be taken by the board until such a recommendation is before it. NEW ENGINEERING LAND EXEMPTED FROM TAXATION. The^ secretary presented the following report from Dean O. A. Harker, Legal Counsel, of the steps taken by him in securing the exemption from the assessment roll of the six pieces of real estate recently acquired by the Board of Trustees for the College of Engineering. This report was received for record. July 24, 1912. Dr. Edmund J. James, President, University of Illinois. DEAR S I R : Some weeks ago I arranged with State's Attorney Coggeshall to have a hearing before the Tax Board of Review on an application to have stricken from the assessment roll the different pieces of property lying between Mathews Avenue on the west, Goodwin on the east, the Illinois Traction System's right-of-way on the north, and the "Boneyard" on the south, recently acquired by the Board of Trustees for the College of Engineering. Owing to the engagements of the State's Attorney, whose duty it is to represent the county in any such applications, the earliest hearing that could be had was on yesterday. The contention advanced by me in behalf of the Board of
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