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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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by mortgages on these buildings, leaving for the actual support of the schools the sum of three hundred and twenty-one thousand five hundred and nine dollars ($321,509) for the biennium. Of this a considerable sum was expended, as you will see from the list on that page, for the equipment of the different departments. Aside from these, the University of Illinois conducts a School of Pharmacy "in the city of Chicago which is located at present at Twelfth Street and Michigan Avenue, but which will be transferred to a new site recently acquired at the southwest corner of Wood and Plournoy Streets on the east side of Cook County Hospital. For the present year, from July 1, 1915, to June 30, 1916, the board appropriated on August 4, 1915, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the support of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, as you will see from the minutes of the Board of Trustees, page 540, sub-head 13, a copy of which I am sending you. I am also sending you a copy of the minutes of the Board of Trustees for September 27, 1915, in which, on pages 609 to 618, you will find an itemization of these budget funds. There is an unassigned balance which will be used in improving the equipment in the buildings. In addition to this sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) for the support of the Colleges of Medicine and Dentistry, the University appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in round numbers, for the support of the School of Pharmacy, and, as noted above, it has just purchased a site^ and buildings for the housing of the School of Pharmacy in the immediate neighborhood of the Cook County Hospital, at a cost of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) and has appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for reconstructing these buildings, and bringing them up to date in condition and equipment, so that the total appropriation for the present year for Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy is two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars ($285,000). The board has also voted to acquire a site and erect a Clinical Building for the use of the Clinical Departments of the College of Medicine. The site has, however, not been as yet acquired, nor have the plans been drawn up for the building. In answer to your second question, I may say that the Board of Trustees have made indefinite, that is, permanent, appointments in the College of Medicine as follows: Dr. Albert C. Eycleshymer, Professor of Anatomy; Dr. David J. Davis, Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Medicine; Dr. George P. Dreyer, Professor of Physiology. The following have been appointed for the definite terms: Dr. William H. Welker, Assistant Professor of Physiological Chemistry; Dr. Victor E. Emmel, Assistant Professor of Anatomy; Dr. William H. Burmeister, part-time Assistant Professor of Pathology; Dr. Alfred O. Shaklee, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology; Dr. Bernard Pantus, part-time Professor of Pharmacology. All other appointments in the College of Medicine, both in the Junior College and in the Senior College, are for one year, and the terms of all professors expire on or before August 31, 1916. Special notice has been given to each member of the clinical staff that, inasmuch as it will be necessary to reconstruct the faculty in the immediate future, owing to the decrease in the number of students, etc., all terms will expire at the end of the present academic year, as indciated above. The Board of Trustees has been looking for a head for the Department of Pharmacology, and a head for the Department of Pathology, and as soon as satisfactory men are found, they will doubtless be put upon indefinite, that is, permanent, appointment. The Trustees have also been looking for sometime for a Dean for the College of Medicine. When such a man is appointed, he will be expected to recommend suitable candidates for the clinical and other positions. According to the by-laws of the Board of Trustees, the President of the University makes all nominations for positions under the board. If the Board of Trustees is not satisfied with his nominations-, they ask him to make others. The President of the University expects, in his turn, the Dean of the College to make nominations. If they are not satisfactory, the Dean is expected to make others, until a suitable faculty has been selected by common consent, The Dean is expected of course to consult heads of departments for nominations in their respective fields. As to your third question, viz., requirements for admission, no students have been admitted either last year or the present year to the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois who have not completed two full years of college work including certain prescribed work in physics, chemistry, biology, French, and German, corresponding to the standard accepted by most of the first class medical schools in the country. The students in the present junior class were admitted with one year of college work. Those in the senior class, with high school graduation. The class graduating in June of the present year, 1916, is the last class with high-school requirement. The class of next year will have had one year of college work, and all after that two full years of college work. The class graduating in June of the present year, 1916, is the last class with high-school requirement. The class of next year will have had one year of college work, and all after that two full years of college work. In answer to your fourth question, I may say that if the Rush Medical College should become a part of the University of Illinois, I do not suppose it would be necessary to proceed immediately with the erection of a Clinical Building. The buildings which 'Rush Medical College has, plus those which the University of Illinois has, would, I should think, serve the purpose for the time being, though of course the Trustees would expect at an early date to proceed with the erection of a modern Clinical Building.' The Trustees have been considering the Marquette School site, but the board of education of the city of Chicago is not yet ready