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EniversMy St. Ignatius College cycle; 6: JL': J Loyola University 14 Evalexus Bennett Medical College
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?lexus 1': Enivensitty 'Loyota History of Bennett ' . The first course of lectures were delivered to a class of 30 students, beginning November 1, 1868, in quarters on Kinzie Street near La Salle. In the Winter of 1868-9 an application was 'made to the State Legislature for a charter, which was granted by a speciallact of that body and signed on March 25, 1869, by J ohn M. Palmer, then Governor of the State. This charter named L. S. Major, W. D. Atkinson, H. C. French, H. D. Garrison, W. M. Dale, H.-K. Whitford, A. L. Clark, J ohn Foreman, M. R. Teegarden, R. A. Gunn, A. L. Brown and J . F. Cook and their successors, constituting them a body politic and corporate under the name of Bennett College of Eclec- tic Medicine and Surgery. L. S. Major was elected president of the Board of Trustees, which position he held until 1872, when the late Dr. Anson L. Clark was elected to that oii'ice and con- tinued to serve in that capacity until 1900, when he was suc- ceeded by Dr. E. J . Farnum, Who was followed in 1906-7 by Dr. N. A. Graves, and in 1907-8, Dr. E. M. Reading served in that position, to be followed in 1908 by Dr. J ohn Dill Robertson, Who has held the position since that time. Owing to an increase in the student body, quarters were pro- cured at the beginning of the second term in the two upper floors of the building located at 180 E. Washington Street. In 1872, Edgar Mead Reading, Sr., M. D., was added to the faculty and remained one of the financial wheelhorses of the college until his death in 1878, when he was succeeded by his son, Dr. Edgar Mead Reading, who has been with the college since that time. In the great Chicago fire during the session of 1871-2 the building and equipment were entirely destroyed, but within a months time the college was in permanent quarters at 461 S. Clark Street. The classes continued to grow in numbers so that in the Spring of 1875 the college was moved to a building Which had been erected on lots at 511 and 513 State Street, and in 1877 a hospital was erected in the rearof this building. Up to this time 087D two courses of lectures were held each year, each course of about 20 weeks, and at the end of these, those passing a satisfactory examination were granted diplomas. With the beginning of 1878 the course was lengthened to six months and only one course each year. In 1889 the buildings on State Street were sold and the college was transferred to its pres- ent location at the corner of Ada and Fulton Streets. The course was lengthened to three years of six months each, and in 1899 the last three-year class was graduated and the course lengthened to four years of eight months each. In 1906 it'beeame necessary to convert the hospital at Ben- nett into laboratories, clinical rooms, and offices, and at this time the J efferson Park Hospital became afliliated with the college. In 1908 the name of the college was changed to Bennett Medical College, and became a 7RegularH school. Two years later Bennett purchased the Illinois Medical College and the Reliance Medical College added a large number of the leading members of the faculties of these two schools to Bennett, and the above schools were closed. The same year, 1910, Bennett became the Medical Depart- ment of Loyola University and the additions to the student body became so great that it was necessary to erect a new building at 300 N . Ada Street to accommodate the first two year classes. In the spring and summer of 1913 an addition was erected to the Jeiferson Park Hospital, so that at the present time it has a capacity of ninety patients. These remarks were compiled largely from information ren- dered by Dr. N. A. Graves and Dr. W. J . Pollock, and the board thanks these men for the interest shown in this publication.
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