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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

[January 4

NURSES' H O M E At this point, Dr. Noble made the following statement: I desire to say that I have urged the Governor to authorize the use of $250,000 appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare for the Research and Educational Hospitals for the erection of a Nurses' H o m e , in accordance with the urgent request of the faculty of the College of Medicine. The Governor states that he will instruct the proper officers to push this project so that the building will be available next October, and thus release the space n o w occupied by the nurses, thereby permitting an increase in the number of available hospital beds to 200 or more. This statement w a s received for record. LANDSCAPING OF THE CAMPUS Mrs. Ickes, for the Committee on the Landscaping of the Campus, made the following report: To the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Your Committee on Campus Landscaping submits the following report: Your Committee has carried out the instructions of the Board to study further the subject of the Landscaping of the Campus in consultation with our own University experts and with Mr. Piatt. W e have a report from the University experts and w e have had a personal conference with Mr. Piatt. W e n o w recommend to the Board: I. That the Board express as its opinion that the main charge of the landscaping of the Campus should be put in the hands of an outside adviser. II. That Mr. Vitale be employed as this adviser if satisfactory terms can be arranged with him, III. and that the Committee be continued with authority to confer with Mr. Vitale and report at the next meeting of the Board. Respectfully submitted, Anna W. Ickes (Chairman) George A. Babk Helen M . Grigsby M r . Charles A . Piatt, w h o w a s introduced at this point, m a d e a statement concerning this matter. O n motion of D r . Noble, this report w a s adopted. ALUMNI OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL MISSIONARY COLLEGE President Kinley m a d e the following statement: In the fall of 1910 the American Medical Missionary College of Chicago, Illinois, and Battle Creek, Michigan, asked to be merged with the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois. It was proposed that the University take over the students of the American Medical Missionary College, together with their records, and that a public statement be made announcing this fact. N o transfer of physical property was involved. This proposition was approved by the University and some of the students of the American Medical Missionary College were transferred to the College of Medicine. Soon after the University agreed to this arrangement, the American Medical Missionary College asked if its alumni could be made alumni of the University of Illinois. This request was presented to the Board on September 20, 1910, and the matter was referred to the Committee on the Medical School. N o report was made by this Committee. In the fall of 1911 the request was repeated by the American Medical Missionary College and