Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-10
From Iowa City.
Iowa CRY, Iowa, March 3,

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Belknap affair, and the different bills
introduced into the House against
the Law and Medical departments OF
our University, and the feelings in
general towards the institution, we
students are in no lack of something
to talk about. The reason of this
feeling towards the University
seems not to be from any ill will tc
the University as such, but simply q
selfish motive Of the Legal and Med
ical Fraternity throughout the State
coming in most cases from those who
do not stand first in their profession
and who not having had advantages
such as students moO enjoy, act the
"dog in the manger," and say to the
young men and women Of the State
zoe had none Of these advantages and
so you shall not.
If some of these gentlemen only
knew what our State University is
in its different departments, and what
it is doing for the State, only kmeat
some of the men who compose its
different Faculties, as DR.. I'hacher
the President, Surgeon Peck, Drs
Farnesworth, Middleton, Hazen
Robinson, Henrichs, Clapp, Shrader
and others of the Medical Depart
ment; Chancellor Hammond, Judges
Dillon and Love, of the U. S. Circuit
and District Courts, Adams, Of Du-
buque, of the Supreme Court of the
State, Rogers, of Davenport, Howe,
Of Newton, and the other eminent
men Of the legal profession, who
comprise the Law Faculty, they
would at least have more respect for
the institution than they now have
If they would adopt the views of Col
Henderson, of Dubuque, who, while
making the Law class a visit last
week, SAID: 81 never had the pleas.
ure of visiting your school before
have often heard of it, but never
knew what it really was till now;
was approached by an old gentle
man at Des Moines the other dav,
who wanted me to use my vote and
influence against the University, and
1 told him that l knew nothing
about the institution only what |
have heard, and when I don't know
only from hearsay, as to the pro and
con Of education, l aiaooys 90 II
blind IN favor Of etlucation." So
with the enemies of the professional
departments, if they would only
adopt the Coloncl's views, $50 IL
blind IN faror" until they come and
see, until they find out really what
the University is, and is striving to
be in all its departments, they would
become its EARNEST friends, and in
stead of voting large appropriations
for prisons aud hospitals for the in
sane, (Which of course are well
enough in their place. they would
by liberal subsidies, foster and cher
ish these professional schools, which
by constant research and investiga-
ton, are continually advancing these
sciences and not only the profession
al departments, but that most of all
in which the student lays the founda.
ton tor these professional studies,
the Academic Department, and make
1t in all its Departments what it
should be and is fast becoming the
State University of Iowa.
Medical Commencement took place
last Wednesday evening, March LIST.
There were twenty-five graduates,
seventeen gentlemen and five ladies,
all of whom took three years course
and were warmly commended by
both Faculty and examining commit
tee, as the best prepared class that
ever left the halls of the Medical De.
partment. -Four prizes of s25 each
were awarded, two of them being
carried off by ladies. Faculty ad
dress was given by Gov. Klrkwood,
and l think if those who are so vic.
lent against the Medical Department
could have heard the excellent argu
ment of the Governor in its behalf
if it did not convert, it would have
at least c0nUicted
Judges Dillon and Love, are now
putting the claws" through on
medical jurisprudence constitutional
Law and Partnership. Guess the
former Dillon) thinks "the boys
harder to manage than the "crookeG
whisky men,"
Sam Fairall is out on the street,
again, and the City Press, which
was so violent against him when they
thought him dying, now comes GU
and says: at gives us great pleasur,
to announce to the many friends O
Ex-senator Fairall, that he is arouu(
again and able to attend to his busin
ess." Same old story of the wound
ed lion and jackals repeated in the
10Th century.
A suicide occurred here SatErda,
night, March 4th. a young fellow
John Berryhill, in Harney's saloon
on Dubuque ST., took an overdose o
morphine to counteract the effects o
Harney's liquor, and in spite of med
ical attendance, died III DR.. Clapp'
Office about midnight, and was buriet
next day without a friend to mourn
his fate. He was very hard case
well off, and we'll connected in thi
city.
City election promises to be un
usually quiet. Morrow, Democrat
likely to be mayor, he is good MAJ
and will carry a majority of the stu
dents votes.
Religious meetings are now il
progress in the University under
Rev. ingalls, and Prof. Fellows
Prof. Fellows seems to be the com
ing man for State Superintendent o
Public Instruction, and will be tn,
right man in the right place, though
great loss to the University. Prof
Eggert will soon start for Europe t.
, visit the principal Universities anc
places of interest connected will
German literature, and we env,
those students who in the future will
have the privilege Of hearing from
the Professors well stored min(
those old legends of the Rhine, ant
Black Forest, which, interviewer
with the poetry of a Goethe and ;
Schiller, and the history of 'Th'
Fatherland," form the most beautiful
and Instructive history in the world