New-York tribune., 1867-02-18
The great fight came upon tho bill TO make
some notifications in the charter of TUFTS CoNege

The great fight came upon tho pln 70 n,"ho
some notifications in the charter oi IuitS Cohego
uJniyersalist NJ AZ TO allow them to have medlca
school and confer degrees as well 10 Harvard There
have been two hearings on this subJect before inc
Committee on Education, at which Dr. ClaIhc' ono VI
the Harvard professors, appeared To oppose Ine p'oi
o.itiop oud the Rev Dr. Miner President of TUFTS
Collcyc advocated the claims of the college Ihede-
hate ,,l, a very warm one and after the hearing was
closed one Of tho regular faculty got so much eNcieu
as 10 apply to the Row President Of the College INC
degree OF 'nfernal scoundre' TO which aspeISoh III
NpcrrcpIied i'm a dienficd severe and becoming way
The collision came abOu in this way Some years ago
nha Rev DIR Tbayer. distinguished clergyman ofthe
Univcrsalist denomination, during VISIT 10 Lo"eh
was thrown from q carriage, and so shockingly In
iurcd that his life was for long time despared OIL
lie WAS attended by Dr. Gilman Kmball, one OF the
mast eminent surgeons in the State but Dr. IhayeTs
friends cot dissatisfied with the treatment, and
finally took him away aud placed him in charge OF
DIR Renton of Boston war of pamphlets ensued,
one party concluding that the injured clergyman
would have died if he had not been removed, ana the
other that he was in the process of cure when he "dS
removed. could never make out which had theHght
of the case DT. Miner III the hearing nave Deeh
sneang Of alluded 10 this old affair. rather to the
dsraragcmcnt of the regular faculty. and. after the
adionrnncnt Dr. Kimball, who was present, maze
the attack on him to which | have alluded The
parties did not come to blows but advise Dr. Miner
il he ever requires surgical aid, to seek 1t at other
hands than those of the eminent surgeon whom he 80
provoked There may well I've two sides of this 0ueS-
tion II il hard to see why college one school
should have tho monopoly of killing 10y medicine
and the Legislature Will probably 60 for free trade
in the business On tho other hand, 1t must
he admitted by everybody that we have doctors
epopcl already. DR. Aliens statistics, show
inc the gradual dmiuuiion of the American part OF
our population attract a good deal of attention
They NAV be- susceptible Of explanation and answer,
but have heard of IL the Yankee stock Is
diving out the doctors probably doing as much ~
any other class to help that consummatiOn by work
ing at both the ends Of life, killing the old and pre-
venting the young from being born. Perhaps Dr.
Clarke will claim that II is only quacks who do inns:
but he would find il difficult 20 show this The most
curious thing about this recent medical furry ~ the
appearance of DR. Holmes lobbyist mt the state
House The Doctorha the hOmOcplthistS and des-
pises their system but having himself taken ground
against all drugs with the exception If remember
rightly of opuml he ought to be the last man 10 OK
hibit any Tigidty such matter rs thus under
stand that in the March number OF The atlantic he
has another dig or two at the clergy, and would
sugpcst 10 them that they have now found joint IN
the Doctors harness and had better carry the war
into his own country.