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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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The Colleges and Schools 237 the name of the School was formally changed to the College of Dentistry. 82 During the year 1912-13 the College of Dentistry was closed, by reason of the failure of the Legislature to appropriate funds for its maintenance. Up to that year the College had been supported by the income derived from fees, but these were found to be no longer adequate to make it possible to conduct a college of high grade, A year later the College was reopened, its support being provided for upon the same basis as are the other departments of the University, The College of Dentistry occupies a six-story building on the corner of Harrison and Honore Streets in Chicago. In 1904 the completion of one year of high school work was required for admission to the College of Dentistry, During the next sixteen years the requirements for entrance advanced to include the completion of fifteen units of preparatory work in an accredited high school or academy or a state normal school. During the same period the course of study was revised and improved, additions were made to the equipment of the laboratories and the operating rooms, and the faculty strengthened in numbers and in personnel. In spite of the general decrease in the number of students enrolled in medical and dental colleges within the past few years, the enrolment of the College of Dentistry of the University of Illinois increased from 163 in 1906 to 196 in 1920, a gain of 33, or about 20 per cent 12. THE SCHOOL OP PHARMACY The School of Pharmacy was established in 1896. In that year the Chicago College of Pharmacy which had been founded in 1859 offered to turn over to the University all its property on the condition that the University would accept the gift and maintain the School as a branch of the University. The offer was accepted and the transfer accomplished May 2, 1896.88 In 1904 the School was removed to the corner of Michigan Boulevard and Twelfth Street where it occupied the four upper M Ibid., 1906, p. 61 "Bept., Univ. of HI., 1896, pp. 238, 240
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