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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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MEDICAL EDUCATION 239 printed before final passage, as required by the Constitution, proved valid, and the appropriation was lost. The college had to be closed that summer. This action was a great shock to the alumni of the college, and to all in the State interested in the advancement of public health. The State Medical Association appointed a member from every county to urge upon the Legislature and the University "the necessity for making adequate provision for this great public need." President James was in favor of founding a new medical school at Urbana, where one in time would doubtless have succeeded. But the college alumni took a decisive step in asking the Trustees if they would reopen the school provided the ownership of the stock was transferred to them. They having consented, early in 1913 the entire transfer was made: part of the stoek was donated, and part had been purchased by funds raised among friends of State medical education. In March the University triumphantly took over the instruction in the old plant, and felt that all it had suffered was not in vaiii. The mill tax law had meanwhile made support of the college easy. The University has since followed a vigorous policy of expansion and development; the entrance requirements were promptly raised (1914) to two years of college work, and equipment increased. The college has been approved by each of the three bodies that once condemned it, and it is one token of its healthfulness that the registration promises soon to reach the figure of the days before the entrance requirements were changed. The college of dentistry was closed at the same time as the college of medicine, and reopened a few months after the latter. Its record otherwise has been uneventful, except that in 1906-07 it experienced a sudden
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