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TIHIE MEDICAL SCHCOL IN DIET IRCS IP ECT ELDOM do wc find, even in the realms of romance, a more entrancing story than that which tells of Temple University. So well known, however, has this story become that we need but recall its barest outline, as a fit background for this brief sketch of the Medical School. That will always be a historic day—or rather, night, when, in December 1884, that little group of young men seeking help to a higher education, found a sympathetic friend and teacher in the pastor of Grace Baptist Church, then located at Berks and Mervine Streets, Philadelphia. Likewise was it a day of historic import, when, only four years later, with these seven parlor students and their teacher, grown to a night school of nearly six hundred, a charter was obtained, and Temple College came into official existence. And again was the date historic, when in 1891, to the rapidly growing night school, a day department was added, and the great future possibilities of this new kind of educational institution began to dawn on the city of Philadelphia, as they had long dominated the dreams of the far-visioned Founder. It was now possible for President Conwell to carry out his cherished ideal of “democratic higher education by being able to provide classes at any hour, day or evening, for which a sufficient number of students applied, and in any subject for which there was a real demand. “Find out what the people need, and supply it, became quite as much the key to success in this unique new college, as its versatile founder had often proclaimed it to be in the affairs of life generally. Demands upon the new College were now multiplying rapidly, and from all sides. This sketch, however, can only very briefly note expansions in the direction of the professional schools. In 1895 a Theological Department was opened, and in 1895, a Law School, both of which have since grown to enviable place and reputation among institutions of their kind throughout the country. In 1901 a fully organized School of Pharmacy was established. In 1904, came a school of Civil Engineering, and three years later one of the oldest and best Dental Colleges in the country, joined heart and hand with the new and popular institution. The year 1901 achieved additional historic renown for having given birth to :hat member of the University family in which The Skull is particularly interested. It has been suggested that this was one of Temples “coming out parties where “Time's noblest offspring is the last might have been modestly modified into “Temple's Medical Offspring is the Noblest! At any rate the Medical Department of the new University had its origin in 1901. Quoting the school's first Dean, the late Dr. I. Newton Snivcly: “The Medical Department of Temple University, like all other departments of this institution, was not opened until a demand was made by a representative number of ambitious young men and women, for an evening course. President Conwell had frequently been appealed to by students from other departments, for a course so arranged that they could earn a living and college expenses, and at the same time secure a medical education. Sixteen
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“In the spring of 1901, the Board of Trustees decided to open an evening medical school. A faculty of twenty teachers, professors, lecturers, demonstrators, and instruC' tors—was assembled, and a circular sent out, announcing that a course consisting of five years' evening instruction would be given by Temple College. The curriculum for this five years night course was so arranged that the same number of hours would be devoted to it, as in the day schools. “There were 31 students matriculated in this new night school for the year 1901'02. It was found that the students who applied for evening instruction, were willing to make any personal sacrifice to acquire a medical education. They therefore gave themselves most diligently to the work, and the high standards attained by these early graduates before the various State Boards has been pre-eminently satisfactory, and a matter of justifiable pride to the institution. The first graduating class consisted of two men who had been admitted to advance standing, and were given diplomas in 1904. Two more graduates went forth in the class of 1905. Of these first four heroic pioneers, but one is now living. Dr. Ferdinand H. Dammasch, an eminently success-ful, and highly respected physician of Portland, Ore. There were fourteen in the third graduating class, two of whom Sara Allen, and Mary E. Shepherd—were the school's first female graduates. The next year, 1907, Temple College was legally promoted to “Temple University. In this same year, the six year old “moonlight medical department began to change into a day school. A four years' day course of nine months each was established, and the work of the junior and senior years was thereafter required to be done in the day time, until gradually the night courses were entirely discontinued. It was in the year 1907 also, that the Philadelphia Dental College, and the Gar-retson Hospital became affiliated with the new University, and the commodious dental building, now renamed Medical Hall became the home of the School of Medicine, which, up to this time had conducted its work the best it could in lofts and basements and what spare rooms could be found in the old dwellings that housed the beginning of the Samaritan Hospital. The acquisition of these buildings at 18th and Button wood Streets marked the second milestone on the school's historic highway, and its first real expansion in the direction of assured success, supplying as it did, the executive offices, amphitheatres, lecture room, laboratories, library, etc., so necessary to continued growth and larger work. The Garretson Hospital, and recent additions to the Samaritan, also provided a very desirable, if not absolutely necessary increase in the facilities for clinical and bed-side teaching. By the next year, 1908-09, the school had an enrollment of 232 students, and the teaching staff had grown from the original 20 to 80. It began to be known that Philadelphia had a new medical school. Not all the serious problems had yet been solved, however, nor all the future pathway charted, but that the school was indeed to have a future, seemed now to have become at least a “promising probability. Twenty years of that future have since been safely recorded on the pages of “Temple's history1. Seventeen
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