Enrollments continue to slip into the single digits. The Trustees of Syracuse University approve Towler' s offer to donate the property of Geneva Medical College to SU on condition that SU establish and maintain a regular medical college consistent with AMA standards. First classes held in temporary quarters in the Clinton Block next to the Erie Canal. He retired in 1926 as Professor of Surgery. The College of Medicine moves into permanent quarters at the remodeled carriage factory on McBride Street.
Medical faculty mandates compulsory student participation in all autopsies.
After practicing in Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, D.C., she moved in 1882 to Santo Domingo, where she married Charles A. Fraser. In the 1870s he was the leader of the movement at Syracuse University toward three-year graded medical instruction, systematic medical research, and rigorous clinical training. Syracuse University purchases the Yates Castle estate and fourteen acres on Irving Avenue. Today it is the site of much of the SUNY HSC campus. Yates Castle itself, built in 1852, was torn down in 1954, but a portion of the outer wall remains along Irving Avenue in front of Weiskotten Hall and the Health Sciences Library.