 As a result, the provincial ordered Daugherty in 1903 to revise the graduate curriculum; otherwise, the Graduate School would be closed down.Daugherty complied, but the Jesuit Superior General later pressured the university to merge the Graduate School into the College in 1907.In 1905, Daugherty's health began to deteriorate, and in August of that year, he resigned the presidency, and was succeeded by David Hillhouse Buel.