Eastern Kentucky University - Milestone Yearbook (Richmond, KY)

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Samuel J. Sanderson. The subject of this sketch was horn in ' aiden, Carroll Count}-, Miss. After attending the public schools of his home until 18S5, he entered the ' aiden Institute, from which institution he was graduated with distinction in 188S. With the intention of making a teacher of liimself. Prof. vSanderson entered the University- of Mississippi. Later he was granted a certificate from the French Camp Academy, French Camp, Miss. He began his career as a teacher in 1892, and taught for four years in his native State. In 1896 became to Central University to take a special course in the department of Ancient Languages. In 1S99 Prof. Sanderson became Principal of the Preparator}- Department, which position he continues to hold. 24

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The Hospital College of Medicine «J «£$ THE Curators of Central University, desiring to estal lish a Medical Department where there would be an abundance of clinical material, selected Louisville. Kv., as the site of the college. Clinical teaching has always been one of the chief aims in tlie course of instruction as laid out by the Faculty. The attendance has grown from ear to ear. attesting the ' alne of this method of instruction and demand- ing increased facilities for the accommodation of the students. The Faculty have added to the originally small Ijuilding, until now they possess a large and handsome building, with e ' er v con ' enience for the most modern methods of instruction. To provide for bedside teaching and hospital experience, the Faculty purchased a plot of ground immediatel - in the rear of the college, and erected a large infirmary containing four wards, a number of private rooms, and a clinical amphitheater of the most recent design, thorougldy equipped with an arena tor aseptic surgerx ' , and ha -- ing a .seating capacity for o -er three hundred persons. The laboratories arc under the direction of experienced teachers, and are equipped with the latest and mosf improved apparatus. The large out-door department assures an abundant supph of clinical material illustrating all forms of disea.ses, and especially those incident to the southern and western portions of the United States. The Louis -ille City Hospital, which is situated across the street from the Hospital College of Medicine, is under the entire control of the Faculty of this College during half the session, where the students have the opportunity of observing almost everx ' kind of disease, or of surgical operation. The Hospital College of Medicine belongs to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which requires four courses of instruction in four separate years, but stutlents who are graduates of recognized colleges and universities and who have completed therein prescribed courses in elementar - branches of Medicine, including Chemistr - and Biolog ' , may apply for advanced standing , admitting them into the Sophomore Class. 26