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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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MEDICAL SCHOOL OPENED 169 school was also slowly increased, and in 1902 there was announced the requirement of three years of college work for admission. The college of medicine and schools of pharmacy and dentistry were destined to constitute a single group in Chicago, and to become closely linked in fortune. Negotiations for the establishment of the medical branch began when in 1894 the College of Physicians and Surgeons proposed that its property and good will be sealed over to the University for not exceeding $160,000, the price to be fixed by a joint committee of appraisal. The Trustees expressed their approval, appointed representatives on this proposed committee, and asked the Legislature for $160,000, or as much of that as necessary, for the purchase. Thenceforth neither party lost sight of the idea of union. Indeed, the college, though very inferior, was one of the three most prominent in Chicago, and well known throughout the West; it was situated in close proximity to the West Side Hospital, with which it was officially connected, and to the Cook County Hospital of 1,000 beds; and its tuition fees were equal to its expenses. Finally, in 1897, an agreement was consummated by which the college was affiliated with the University as its school of medicine, under an arrangement to cover a trial period of four years. The attendance at the college at this time exceeded 400, and Dr. Draper congratulated the University on its acquisition. So advantageous did the alliance seem to both that in 1900 a more permanent agreement was negotiated— one, indeed, which it was hoped would be final. The value of the college was estimated at $217,000, and this the University agreed to pay to the stockholders from the earnings of the college in the next twenty-five years,
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