UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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238 UNIVERSITY AFTEE IT FOUND ITSELF Medical Colleges that the department did not fulfill the requirements it had set as a minimum, with an inquiry as to when it would begin enforcing proper standards of admission. Only a high school diploma was required, whereas the medical schools of the Universities of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota demanded two years of college work. The University at once increased its pressure on the college for a betterment, and enforced rulings that no credits would be received from colleges of inferior standing and that no faculty member would be permitted a connection with any other institution. Equipment also was to be increased. But the Dean was certain that with these steps the college would cease "to be self-supporting . MU and that it will never be self-supporting again. In my opinion the college cannot furnish better teachers and more of them and more equipment out of its earnings. It has already gone beyond its powers in satisfying the demands of the University.'\ In 1910 the old agreement had to be abrogated, and a new one executed, largely on lines suggested by Gov. Deneen. The University took absolute control of the medical college, the lease was reduced to one year, and the University was authorized to buy the plant upon consent of the Legislature. The next autumn the Trustees, to whom President James had presented a mass of material on the development of medical education, asked for a sum for the maintenance of the college. The Legislature duly appropriated $60,000, and then an unforeseen disaster occurred. The State Homeopathic Medical Association, angered that the allopathic method should be thus recognized, applied for an injunction to prevent the payment of the funds. Its ground, that amendments to the bill had not been

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