Drexel University College of Medicine - Medic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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,-Q. w 1. F Hit ai . rg. , .5 The work of the college and hospital has been increased so greatly that three new buildings, the nurses' home, the women's building, and the powerhouse were constructed in 1906 at a cost of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Dr. Van Lennep completely reorganized the medical curriculum and made it conform to rigid standards. Eight professors were engaged to devote all of their time to the work of the college and soon other fullftinie men were added to the Faculty. In 1913, at the request of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional Education, prefmedical instruction was inauguf rated. A onefyear prefmedical course was given until 1917, when the charter was revised to permit the granting of the Bachelor of Science degree after two years of prefmedical instruction and two years of medical instruction. The twofyear prefmedical course was continued until 1929, when it was abandoned largely because hundreds applied for matriculation, who had had more than two years of pref medical training. During the World War a Hahnemann Students' Army Training Corps was established and the students housed in the Armory at Broad and Callowhill Streets. Colonel John H. Lockwood was our first commanding officer. He was followed by Captain William Frazee. Two hundred and eightyfsix graduates of the Hahnemann Medical College were ofhcially enlisted in the army and navy medical corps and nine lost their lives in military service. In 1927, after a successful campaign for two million dolf lars the college on Broad Street was razed and tem orar , s g pn I Y quarters were engaged for the college in a large building adjacent. A twentyfstory hospital was built on the site of the old college. The former hospital was then completely remod eled for college purposes. During this period of thirty years, from 1900 to 1930, thrrteen hundred and fortyfnine men were graduated in medicine and one hundred and sixtyfnine received the degree of Bachelor of Science. This sketchy perusal of these latter years makes them no less important. The detail of history was spent in the analysis of those early beginnings, when so much can be said and so much can be interesting. All that has gone before is a birds' eye view, a panoramic study. Bits of chronicle have been joined here and there, to depict a gradual and portentous development. The commencement of the Class of '31 ends our story. 'Twentyftwo I v I lllll ,i11lllllllll111i.

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