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UNIVBESITY OP ILLINOIS.

[February 12,

If the Board of Trustees desire at this meeting to accept the property now tendered by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in accordance with the vote of the board of September 19, 1912, it would seem proper to adopt the following resolutions: 1. That the Board, of Trustees hereby accept the gift of the real and personal property of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of Chicago, subject to the mortgage and bonded indebtedness of two hundred forty-five thousand dollars ($245,000), disclaiming, however, all responsibility for the assumption or payment of this indebtedness. 2. That the University accept from the College of Physicians and Surgeons the cash now in their possession, amounting to ten thousand seven hundred fiftyone dollars and eleven cents ($10,75i.ll) more or less, and the notes and obligations, etc., which may be due the College of Physicians and Surgeons from students or others,- and hereby authorize the treasurer of the University to accept such gift. 3. That the. President of the University be authorized to re-open the Medical School of the University in the plant thus presented to the Trustees of the University of Illinois. 4. That the President of the University be authorized to retain the present faculty and employees as appointed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons until June 30, 1913.. 5. That the President of the University be further authorized to admit the students now in the Medical School of the College of Physicians and Surgeons to the corresponding classes in the Medical School of the University of Illinois, all to be done as soon as may be convenient and practicable. 6. That the President of the University be authorized to conduct the Medical School of the University until June 30, 1913, on the basis of the budget adopted by the Board of Directors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the present academic year as indicated above. On motion of Mr. Hatch, it was voted to adopt the resolutions, numbered one to six, suggested in the foregoing statement by the President of the University. The vote* was as follows: Ayes, Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit; noes, none; present, but not voting, Mrs. Bahrenburg, Mr. Dunne, Mr. Montgomery; absent, Mr. Blair, Mrs. Busey, Mr. Meeker, Mr. Moore.

RECESS T A K E N T I L L 6:30 P.M. A recess was then taken till 6:30 P.M., at the Beardsley Hotel, in Champaign, in order that the members of the Board of Trustees might attend the exercises in connection with the dedication of Lincoln Hall. W. L. ABBOTT, President. C. M. MCCONN, Secretary.

* President James has received the following letter relating to this matter from Mr. Arthur Meeker, a member of the board who could not be present at'this meetmg: CHICAGO, February'15,1913. Edmund J. James, Esq., President Univerisity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois: DEAR DOCTOR JAMES—I beg to inform you that I endorse heartily the action of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on February 12, 1913, in accepting the property, real and personal, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of Chicago. Yours very truly,

• • ARTHUR MEEKER.

Letters of similar purport, have been received also by President James from Hon. Francis G. Blair, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, ex-offlcio a member of the board, and from Mr. Allen F . Moore, neither of whom could be present at this meeting but both of whom were present at the meeting of the board held on September 19,1912> at which the vote in regard to the acceptance of the property of the College of Physicians and Surgeons referred to in the president's statement was taken.

EVENING SESSION, FEBRUARY 12, 1913. "When the board convened at the Beardsley Hotel, in Champaign, on the evening of Wednesday, February 12, 1913, "the following members were present: Mr. Abbott, Mrs. Bahrehburg, Mrs. Evans, Mr. Grout, Mr. Hatch, Mr. Hoit, Mr. Montgomery. There were present, also: Mrs. Ellen M. Henrotin, member-elect of the Board of Trustees; Dr. David Kinley, Dean of the Graduate School; Dean O. A: Harker, Legal Counsel of the University, and, during a part of the evening, Mr. H. D. Oberdorfer, Assistant to the Supervising Architect.