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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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I72 History of Campus Plan lioo^ooo, which was requested to pay the rental during 19121913 was lost, with the consequence that the lease could not be renewed. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, therefore, reopened its doors on July 1, 1912, under its own name, and the University School of Medicine was officially closed. This action was an occasion of alarm to alumni and friends of the School, and steps were immediately taken to secure a donation to the University of the capital stock of the corporation of the College of Physicians and Suregons. This donation was made, and, on March 6,1913, a deed of the lands and buildings and a bill of sale of the equipment owned by the institution were deposited with Treasurer Haugan, thus completing the transfer of the College property to the University. In two years the University had placed the laboratory branches of the College on a university basis, and it then endeavored to secure funds to place the clinical branches on the same basis. Not until 1919-20, however, were the necessary funds available. In that year the General Assembly appropriated about $1,000,000 to the State Department of Public Welfare for the construction of a group of research and educational hospitals in the city of Chicago, and, at the same time, made an appropriation of $300,000 to the University. These two bodies, the University and the Department of Public Welfare, had worked independently hitherto, to some extent duplicating each other's work, but now they began to realize that each would benefit by consolidation. As early as November, 1917, there was correspondence between Charles H. Thorne, the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, and President James on the subject of consolidation. On April 19, 1918, Director Thorne wrote, in a letter to President James: "The functions of the University are primarily professional, for teaching purposes. The functions of the Department of Public Welfare are primarily administrative, and both, being creatures of the State, could better perform their respective functions, better serve the people, if they could be so coordinated that the work of ad- L_:
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