Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-03-21
LOCAL NEWS.

TIE MEDICAL CoLLEGR-The announcement Cor
the session Of the Nashville Medical College for 1857
s. contains catalogue of the students at the last
session. These numbered 4l9, from eighteen States
and Territories The graduates numbered l37. The
whole number of marticuants since the organization
Of the school six years since is 1886 and the whole
number Of graduates ass. These figures show 8
wonderful prosperty-greater than has attended any
other medical school in the country. This prosperity
is due to the character Of its professors and to the
zeal and energy which they bring to the discharge Of
their duties.
We make room below for the report Of DR.. Evs,
Dean Of the Faculty to the President Of the Board
Of Trustees, at the commencement on The 18th Ilt,
which we copy from the Journal Of Hsdielae and
Surgery for March:
Report Of the Dean Of The Medical Faculty to the True
tees Of the University Of NashUiLle, February Is,
1857.
The faculty take pleasure to report to the Trustees
and friends of our University, the still unexampled
prosperity Of the Medical Department The sixth
session closes tonight and announce to you that
the increase Of our class during the year been 90
and the number Of students in attendance amounted
10 4l9 being the largest class assembled in the
South West, any where and at any time, out Of
Philadelphia, in the United States
In-the last report from the most fourishing Uni
vesity in the South West in its eighteenth year
Of existence the University Of Virginia, with its lit
erary, scientific, law and medical departments, the
number Of students is stated TO be go We graf
fed to say that in the literary department Of the
University Of Nashville, POI have already mstricu-
lated: and thus the difference between the Universe
ties Of Virginia and Tennessee 10 students is just
this: In Charlottesville in seventeen years. with four
departments amply endowed by the State, there are
G2O while in Nashville without cent from the State
and with department (the medical) in six years
organization, and in less than two years since the
present organization of the literary, have arrived
at precisely the same number, 620. And thus in the
competition now being carried on, we can cheerfully
relinquish TO each State Of this glorious Union the
generous support it bestows upon its literary and
scientific institutions, while ours, hope, will
be under the care Of God and be worthy the patron
age Of His people.
At the close Of winter session, l37 candidates.
whose names are about to be called having complied
with all the acquisitions Of the highest medical col
leges of our country, and having been found worthy
10 have conferred upon them the degree Of Doctor Of
Medicine, We have assembled here &c perform this
interesting ceremony. We present before this audi
ence probably the largest graduating class ever con-
gregated, save in city, in Ameriea-being in
crease Of no less than 81 over the number we had
this time last year; and they come from almost eve
~ college Of this widely extended country. The
Memphis Medical College; University Of Louisiana,
New Orleans the Savannah Med. College the Med.
College Of Ga at Augusta the Med. College Of S.
C., Charleston; the University Of New York; the
University of Pennsylvania; the jefferson Medical
College the Pennsylvania University, Lexington
the University Of Louisville besides our own are
all represented in this class who have come hither
to receive the honors Of the University Of Nashville