The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-08-27
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3d. The Office reading of medical students
during the large part of the year which is
not occupied by the lecture term, is necess a.
rily unsystematic and incomplete, and NAV
be little more than nominal 1t is desired to
secure in medical education a continuous,
thorough and systematic study of medical
science both In its principles and in its appli-
cations. In a city there can be a reading
term under the instruction of TIE resident
Professors, in which the students can be car
+o,. a.u through course of thorough and sys-
tenalic instruction from the best medical
oo oooHs, and the practical study of anatomy
thn.o an oe continued. And it is proposed that
stnd,, oe oe ",so session at Brunswick for the
inc ~ a. nnelyt'cai Chemistry and for learn
ing tne practical work of the Iaboratorv
4. For these and other reasons tba ,,,So,,;ooI
procession generally, impressed with fine de-
iec.s OF lhe existing system and desirino to
make medical education more svstama+;D
thorough and complete, have of late been
coming to the conviction that all medical
schools should be in cities, where alone these
advantages are possible. This conviction has
received decided utterance in recent annual
niee'inSs ,io OF the National Medical Associa-
',I',as; a, - wen as from other associations of
physicians. Aud it NAV he added tbat near-
y al the country schools of medicine have
already decayed or become extinct
The Trustees and Overseers of tbe ool,ooo
desiring to secure the best possible ADVANTAGE,
Tor education in the Medical School of Ma;So
are ready to adopt, so soon as practicable tbe
measures which the medical profession ba-
heve important for that end. A few wears
ago In accordance with the universal wish Of
the friends OF the Medical School.tb TrTstees
erected new building for the scho,l The
building was erected ON the college grounds
partly by college funds and partly by funds
given Tor the use of the Medical School. In
erecting this building all the funds. given IN
tne PRESIDENT AMI Trustees of Bowdom Col
lege Tor the use OF the school, were expended.
except small amount the income of which
mas peen annually expended for the benefit
VI tne school. with this nconsiderable ex-
cePtioh, the trustees have no funds with
Wllcn 10 deiray the expense OF removing the
school to Portland. and no means at their dis
posad with which they can purchase for the
use OF the college that proportion of the
building erected with funds Contributed ior
the use OF the school. The school has Tins
lar prospered in its present location. The
trustees and Everseers do not think that the
prosperity OF the school or the interests of
lleulcai education would be promoted by
removal 0e,ore permanent accommodations
are provided for it equally good al least nc
those which it now has. They therefore voted
IA substance that they consent to the remoy-
al Wnere building, containing all suitable
convenlences Tor the purposes Of the school.
Is Is provided and conveyed to the President and
trustees OF Bowdoin College for the use of
the Medical School of Maine. TIllI
t.l SAMUEL HARRIS, i-rst.tre
.. President OF Bowdoin College.
FROM the above communication of Presi-
dent Harris it appears that the Trustees and
overseers of Bowdom college, for good and
sufficient reasons, have voted to remove their
medical department to Portland, as soon as
suitable accommodations can be provided for
it here. rl..,--
The institution is one of which the people
of Maine have reason to be proud. II has
now been in operation for nearly half CEN
tury, and its graduates, most of whom have
settled in practice in this State, probably
number at least thousand. For several
years past the number of students have rang
ed from hundred to hundred and fifteen,
larger number than that of any other
school in the country outside of the large
cities, with the single exception of the Uni
versity of Michigan where the courses are
free to students of the State 1t has done a
great work in raising the standard Of the
profession in Maine.
1t is admitted by all who have thoroughly
considered the question that under existing
circumstances the removal is not only i'm
portant but essential to the continued and
permanent success of the school.
We believe that it will prove that Bowdoin
College itselfwill be also IN various ways bene-
fitted by extending one of its arms as far as
Portland, and locating its medical department
here. The present medical building at Brun-
swick, we are informed, is precisely what is
at this moment urgently needed by the Col
lege for the use of the Scientific School Just
being established.
To accomplish this removal a few thousand
dollars must be raised. We doubt not that
our liberal and wealthy citizens will cordially
contribute to this end, and that our people
generally will take an interest and pride in
establishing the Medical School in Portland.