Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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 Oi all the arts. Medicine is the most noble.

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL IN THE YEAR 1901 a small group of students, bound together by a common cause, finally saw their prime wish become a reality, for the trustees of Temple College had established an evening medical department which enabled these men to receive a medical education and still remain self supporting. This small and as yet untried department placed its fate in the hands of Dr. Fritz and a faculty of 20 professors, lecturers and demonstrators. A curriculum of five years with 700 hours of day time study was outlined. The original class of 31 students assembled in the main college building at Broad and Berks Streets, other times they met in spare rooms, basements and in lofts or any place at all in the old house which then formed the Samaritan Hospital. In 1904 two men who had been admitted with advanced standing formed the first graduating class. In 1905 two more similarly admitted formed the second class to graduate. With the passing of 1903 we find that Dr. I. Newton Snively was made dean. In 1906 a group of 14 was graduated. These were the first to receive their entire medical education in the Medical Department of Temple College. Another year of great advancement was 1907, for in that year by permission of the courts Temple College became Temple University and the Medical Department became the School of Medicine of Temple University. At about this same time it seemed wise to convert the School of Medicine into an improved day school and as a result a four year curriculum was instituted the last two years being day school. In 1909 Dr. F. C. Hammond became dean and started out on what was to be a 20 year campaign of untiring effort to obtain the much coveted A rating for the school. He began with a student body of 232 and a faculty of 80. Classes were then being held at 18th and Buttonwood Streets in the Philadelphia Dental College and the Garretson Hospital which had been added to Temple University in 1907. With the change of industrial plant locations Garretson Hospital was no longer necessary and with the transference of its departments it was refurnished, the upper three floors were equipped for Histology, Embryology, etc., and an anatomy dissecting room was established in the basement. With all of this advancement application was made to the A. M. A. for A rating but much to the disappointment of all it was refused. Subsequent to this refusal the entire Garretson Hospital was made into teaching space and in 1928 Dean Hammond was repaid by receiving A rating. The achievement of A rating marked a new era in the history of Temple University Medical School. 24