MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES,Jul-17,1908 Page 288(cont'd)



     UDon motion of President Patterson, seconded by Judge
Barker the following was unanimously adopted,-


     We, the Board of Trustees,of the State University in Special
Session assembled note witih regret the absence of our Chairman,
D. F. Frazee froze the meetinc by reason of illness. lve regret
this indisposition, and sincerely hone that he will soon be
restored to us in his usual health and spirits.


     The object of the meeting being the consideration of a
proposition from the medical colleges of Louisville to consoli- P.2g9
date said Colleges and to have same adopted as the 'Medical
Department of the State University and which said proposition
was submitted to the Board by the representatives of the Medi-
cal Colleges and was by the Chairman read to the Board and is
as follows:


                                  Louisville, Ky.,June,8"-l9O0
Prof. James X.. Patterson,
     President State University, of Kentucky.
Dear Sir:
     We the undersigned members of committees and others in
interest, representing the Louisville and Hospital Medical
College (Mledical Department of the Central University and the
Kentucky School of Medicine) agree to unite and discontinue
the said two schools, if the State University of Kentucky will
make the two united schools the 'Medical Department of said
University, and locate it in the City of Louisville, subject
to the following conditions:


     The Louisville and Hospital College and the Kentucky School
of Medicine will give to the State University all the laboratory
and other equipments. This proposition includes the franchises
of the two schools, their present student body, their alumni,
approximately numbering 5,000, located in every State in the
Union, their good will etc. (We also agree to furnish free of
cost or of legal responsibility to the State University of Ken-
tucky a building, or a sufficient number of buildings, now
occupied by said Medical College for a period of five years,
in which to conduct a medical department in Louisville). The
four years of medical curriculum shall be taught in Louisville,
but the freshman and sophomore years may be taught in Lexington,
the Medical Department in Jouieville accepting the work satis-
factory completed in Lexington.