Chicago, U: University Record, 1917, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The University Record, 1917, Vol. 3

An announcement deeply fraught with significance for the University of Chicago, and indeed for all that Humanity which it seeks to serve, was that quietly issued by President Harry Pratt Judson on November 10, 1916, and trumpeted in various tones in the newspapers of the morning of November 11: The Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago has adopted a plan for medical education which it is expected will be put into operation in the near future. The plan provides for an undergraduate medical school, a graduate medical school, and medical research.

The undergraduate medical school will be on the Midway, in close connection with the science departments of the University. The standards of admission and of gradua tion will be as high as those of any medical school in the country. The number of students will be limited to such as can receive the best possible training with the facili ties available.

A teaching hospital, duly equipped with necessary laboratories and lecture-rooms, will provide for clinical instruction. Suitable endowments will free the hospital from the necessity of depending on paying patients, and the faculty from the necessity of practice for a livelihood.

The graduate medical school will be on the West Side in connection with the work now done by the Rush Medical College and the Presbyterian Hospital. It will pro vide for medical graduates who wish further training and for practitioners who wish to keep in touch with progress in medical science. Research will be carried on in both places under arrangements to be announced later.

The plan involves an addition to the resources of the University of the sum of five million three hundred thousand dollars-one million for the hospital on the Midway, three hundred thousand for a laboratory on the West Side, and four millions for endow ment.

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