University of Louisville - Thoroughbred Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE LITERARY AND LAW DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT First Street Building

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE i See LIE a fA wee ; ys Pe WILLIAM H. WATHEN, A.M., M.D., LL. D. Cc. W. KELLY, M.D., C.M. L.S. MCMURTRY, A. M., M.D., LL. D. H. HORACE GRANT, A. M.. M.D.

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University of Louisville H E UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE was founded in 1837 by a decree of the City Council, and the tract of land comprising the town block between Eighth and Ninth streets, extending south from Chestnut, was granted to the corpo- ration chartered by an act of the Legislature of Kentucky in 1846 “for the establishment of a university for the pro- motion of every branch of science, literature, and the liberal arts.” A special subsidy of $50,000 was also allowed for the construc- tion of suitable buildings. This enactment of the civic government speaks well for the intelligence and forethought of Louisville when it was nothing more than a village, and these facts, indicating the provision and solicitude of their grandfathers for the cultivation of higher learning and purer citizenship, are worth recalling to their descendants. Soon after the appropriation made b y the City Council for a university, the Medical College and the Law College were put in active operation. The Medical College of the University of Louisville is thus the second oldest medical school now in existence west of the Alleghanies. By the recent coalition of the medical schools of Louisville, embracing the Medical Department of the University of Louisville, organized in 1837, the Kentucky School of Medicine, 1850, the Louisville Medical College, 1869, the Hospital College of Medicine, 1873, and the Medical Department of the Kentucky University (now Transylvania University), 1898, new property, greater prestige, and wider influence were added to the old institution, thus making it one of the strongest of its class in the country, and promising for the future the maintenance of increasingly higher standards to satisfy the increasing requirements demanded by the State medical boards. The additions that have also been made to the laboratories and clinical facilities. of this department make it one of credit to the city and of distinct usefulness to the State and country. The five schools of the Medical Department have graduated altogether in the past about 20,000 alumni. Dr. J. M. Bodine is the president of the medical Faculty; Dr. J. B. Marvin, vice-president; Dr. T. C. Evans, Dean of the College; Dr. Philip F. Barbour, secretary ; Dr. Hugh N. Leavell, comptroller. The Faculty includes about one hundred and thirty surgeons and physicians, a number of whom stand at the top of the medical profession in America. The Law Department of the University of Louisville is the oldest law school in the South. It has graduated about 1,400 students, many of whom are practicing their profession or filling offices of public trust in most of the States of the Union. Not a few of the graduates of the Law College are located in Louisville, and have a high rank in the legal profession of the city. —19-—