Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1918
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I9I8] U N I V E R S I T Y OF I L L I N O I S 729 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY UNION IN EUROPE (12) A report from Mr. J. F. Aldefer, of the American University Union in Europe, Royal Palace Hotel, Paris, containing a list of students and graduates of the University of Illinois who have registered at the American University Union to date, that is, to February 1, 1918. These were about forty in' number. After the news gets about of the membership of the University in this Union, the number will certainly be largely increased. This report was received for record. REPRESENTATIVE IN EUROPE (13) A request for authority to designate a member of the University staff to act as representative of the University at the headquarters of the American University Union in Europe. On motion of Miss Watson, this request was granted. CLINICAL BUILDING IN CHICAGO The following statement: I desire to call the attention of the Board very urgently to the situation in the College of Medicine with reference to hospital facilities. It is really very necessary that some additional and better provision be made for hospital facilities. I have been urging this on the Board for some years. I think that unless improvement is made at an early date some of the State Boards will strike the University from the list of accredited institutions on the ground that it does not possess the hospital facilities necessary to give efficient medical instruction. (14) No action was taken in this matter. APPOINTMENT OF DR. D. J. DAVIS (15) A recommendation that Doctor David John Davis, Acting Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, acting head of the department of pathology, and professor of Experimental Medicine, be appointed Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology and head of the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology to date from September 1, 1917. On motion of Mrs. Evans, this recommendation was approved. APPOINTMENTS MADE BY PRESIDENT JAMES The Secretary presented for record the following list of appointments made by the President of the University. Anderson, R. K, Student Assistant in operative work in surgery, in the College of Medicine, to give six hours' service a week for sixteen weeks at a compensation of fifty cents ($.50) an hour. (February 25, 1918*'). Appelle, C. G., Instructor in Histology in the College of Dentistry, on *The date in parenthesis is the (late on which the appointment w^s made by the President of the University,
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