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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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ISSUE O F T H E D I R E C T O R Y O F F O R M E R S T U D E N T S (12) In accordance with your action appointing him Keeper of the Alumni Records, Mr. C. J. Roseberry has typed the l s of our former students on cards with a it view to publication. There have been several inquiries made as to the possibility of securing the list, either in whole or in part, before its publication. Although we have up to this time refused all such requests, on reflection it seems to me that it would not be improper for you to anticipate the printing by authorizing the Keeper of the Records to sell the list, either complete or in part, to such individuals as may wish to purchase it at the cost of transcription plus, say, twenty percent for overhead. I recommend that he be given authority to do this, the l s to be open to all it on the same terms and publicity to be given to this action. A motion by M r . W h a m to concur in this recommendation did not carry.

PRINTING OF DIRECTORY OF FORMER STUDENTS

(13) The advisability of printing the directory of former students is open to serious question. The total expense will be doubtless about $20,000. I am not prepared to recommend such an appropriation for this purpose, but shall be glad to be instructed by the Board as to their wishes. N o action was taken on this matter. DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL. HOSPITALS (14) 1. After consideration and conference, I recommend that the action of the Board appointing Dr. D. J. Davis, Director of Research in Preventive Medicine (See Minutes, June 9, 1924, page 575) in the Research and Educational Hospitals and establishing a similar position in each of the hospital divisions be rescinded and that the office of Director of Research in the Research and Educational Hospitals be established by the Board. 2. I recommend that Dr. D. J. Davis be appointed to the position for one year beginning September 1, 1925. In general the duties of the Director will be to act as a consultant for all who are conducting research, to coordinate the work, to secure cooperation, and in general do everything necessary to procure efficiency and to promote the largest use of the facilities and staff of the College of Medicine in the performance of the work of research in the hospitals. O n motion of M r . Armstrong, these recommendations were adopted. T H E C O L L E G E O F MEDICINE (15) The Acting Dean of the College of Medicine makes the following recommendations in which I concur and which I recommend, therefore, for your approval: 1. That in the various departments the clinical headship be combined with the position of director of research, thus unifying the department. The reasons given by Acting Dean Davis for this recommendation are that there are at present, and probably will be for some time to come, too few beds in the hospital to allow such an organization to be practicable, and, moreover, that when tried out this past winter the dual scheme of organization did not result in proper or agreeable cooperation. The Dean is of the opinion, moreover, that it is not wise to segregate the research work and the clinical work in the Research and Educational Hospitals as the dual scheme of organization tended to do. 2. That headships be established in the following departments: (a) Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery on indefinite tenure, including in the department, General Surgery, Genito-Urinaiy Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery, and Operative Surgery. (b) Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology on indefinite tenure.