Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The large and increasing attendance suggested to the Trustees the necessity ot' providing niore rooin and increased teaching facilities. The college had outgrown its building and another lnnst be erected: accordingly the plans for gi laboratory building. on the south side ot Harrison street, opposite the college building. were conipleted. The erec- tion of this building was begun during the early part ot IHUEL and on Connnencelnent Day. March 24. the corner' stone was laid with siinple ceremony. Professor J. B. Hainilton and Professor De Laslcie Miller inalting the ad- dresses on the occasion. The new building is a substantial tive-story structure. built of brick with stone facing. It contains large and tinelv- appointed chemical, bacteriological. physiological. and histological laboratories. The rooins for the practical studv of anatomy are located on the tifth floor and are large and well lighted. Four large recitation rooins are located on ithe fourth tloor. where also is the very interesting niuseinn belonging to the college. At the beginning ol' the session of N955 U4 the new building was used. though some little tinie elapsed before the laboratories were ready lor use with all their equipments. Exactly titty years after the assembling of twenty-two students to hear the tirst lecture in the college.several hundred students with their friends assembled at the dedicatory exercises of the new building. Dec. 4.1NSI53. At these exercises. which were held in the upper ainphitheatre ol' the college building. Professor Lynian gave aninf teresting dedicatory address.and President Coulter. ot' Lake Forest University. an able address on the subject. The Modern Laboratory, These exercises inarlied the conipletion ot a- great undertaking the erection of a laboratory costing over ninety-five thousand dollars. IHOFE' than sixty thousand of which was donated by the Facility of the college, Beginning with the session of M93 H4 the course includes three years ol' eight inonths each. Heretofore the year has included six inonths attendance. or during the yi inter term, and a two-nionths' spring terin. during which the attendance was optional with the students. Not yet satistied. the Faculty have decided thahbeginning with the next ses- sion. the course shall include four years of eight nionths each attendance at college. Students who have taken tour- year courses at literary colleges. and others who have niade necessary preparation. will he adinitted to the second. or sophniore year. and be perinitted to graduate at the end of three full courses of lectures. The science of niedicine is inaliing rapid advances. and in order to gain even a lair knowledge ot' it the tinie for study is being lengthened in the leading colleges ot the country. Of the one hundred and l'orty eight niedical schools existing at the present tinie in the United States and tfanada. eightyftive now require attendance upon three or niore courses of lectures before graduation. as against twenty-two that had this requirement in lee: Sonic are adopting the four- year course, and this college. ever striving for the best. adds this requirement of the coniing student. Beginning titty years ago with twenty-two students and four professors. Hush Medical College to-day has oversixty professors and instructors. and over seven hundred and titty students. The iniproveinents in the buildings and course ot' study are to be continued still further. and the college will be kept where she belongsfin the front rank of niedical colleges in this country. 50

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