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

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The Medical Department of Temple College was opened in 1901, using the Samaritan Hospital as its teaching center. Classes were held in the evening and the course was distributed over five years to give the student the equivalent of a four year day course. In addition, seven hundred hours of actual day work were required each year. Classes were held in the main college building, Broad and Berks Streets, and at the Samaritan Hospital, Broad and Ontario Streets. In 1907, evening classes were abandoned due to unfavorable legislation which made it impossible for graduates to obtain the necessary licensure to practice in many states. Students were urged to transfer to day classes, and by 1909 evening classes had been entirely discontinued. Progress, improvement, and expansion of the Temple University Medical Center continued slowly throughout the next decade. In this period of growth, the facilities of Garrettson Hospital, the Philadelphia Dental College, and the Greatheart Hospital were utilized at successive periods for teaching purposes. By 1925, the Temple University Medical School was ready for more rapid expansion. In that year, the Samaritan Hospital was greatly enlarged and the older sections of the hospital were renovated so that the teaching hospital of Temple University took its place among the largest and best equipped hospitals in the city. Four years later a new high in development and achievement was attained, and the year 1929 became perhaps the most memorable one in the history of the Medical School. During that ENTRANCE TO THE HOSPITAL

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temple university medical school building In 1884. at the request of a group of young men who decided to prepare for the ministry. Dr. Russell H. Conwell. minister, lecturer, and philanthropist, organized a program of night study. Within four years, the group of students had grown from seven to almost six hundred. Dr. Conwell then secured a college charter; and in 1891. the College of Liberal Arts established a day department and obtained the power to confer degrees. In 1907. the College became a University, with Dr. Conwell as its first president. 8

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HOSPITAL LOBBY year the present eight story Medical School Building was erected directly opposite the Samaritan Hospital at Broad and Ontario Streets, which, in the winter of 1929, was named the Temple University Hospital. That same year Dr. William N. Parkinson became the fourth dean, and the Medical School received a Grade A rank from the A.M.A. Council on Medical Education. Under the direction of Dr. Parkinson, Dr. Charles E. Beury, and Dr. MEDICAL SCHOOL LOBBY QC'manfown cff( CGyi . fjtnnar.