New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-10-05
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

AN ENDOWMENT FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION VI
woMEN-AN ADDRESS BY DIR. $. WEIR MITCHELL
THE NEW DENTAL AND CHEMICAL LABoRA
TORIES.
IRON AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 3.-Mrs. Bloomfield II.
Moore has just gwen $4,000 TO the University oi
Pennsylvania, desiring that 1t should be the nucleus
of fund TO be called the Bloomfield ii. Moore FUND.-
in honor Of her dead husband. The income OF this en-
dowment be used TO promote the higher education
Of women at the University. AT the meeting OF the
trustees Tuesday last Provost Stile announced the
gift. The board adopted resolutions accepting 'h'
money with thanks, upon the CONDITIONS speciheu'
They further determined that the income should DC
perpetually applied TO enable those women mot ex-
ceeding six i'll number any year, who are at pres
ent or propose future TO become teachers to ava
themselves without cost OF the instruction Which is
now which may hereafter be given to women at Tie
University.
The Law Department the University opened its WIN
ter session on Tuesday afternoon last. ChefJustice
Agnew OF the Supreme Court OF THU State, delivered
the address.
The Medical School began its one hundred and four
tenth course OF lectures Wednesday, at II o'clock
g Weir Mitchell NJ d., delivering an address on The
History OF Instruments OF Precision in Medicine, In the
college chapel. Among those the stage were the
trustees and faculties, and Messrs. Joshua H. hppih-
cott Chas Harrison, the Rev. Drs. Morton and Beade
and others. After closing his formal address, Dr.
Mitchell spoke somewhat length of the past and pres
ent course in medicine at the University, and ended
with narrative OF the various plans which had cumi-
mated in the establishment of dental department. and
asked assistance of wealthy Phladelphans lin the next
great enterprise TO which, III the confidence or whoe-
some growth the University already looked forward
the creation OF great American school OF veterinary
medicine"
The new dental and chemical laboratory building Is
"A hY1t
of green stone without and of brick within IL is151
foot in length forv-sx feet In width sxy-eight
feet high. In the cellar placed hot-dr furnaces
which heat the entire building The stairway which is
projection on the north size OF lnc
building entirely freproot The ceilings OF all me
stories lined with plate iron ana oy n91m
partent provided with va ting rooms. closets operating
chairs etc second and third floors set apart Tor
chemical laboratories The fourth floor to be used for
neurological astrological, and physooglcal laDOrdlOflcS
The fonTfh foor is the ONLY one cut up separate
rooms The dental department was ready for use on
Wednesday, the chemical laboratories VIII De open on
Wednesday of next week and the fourth floor will not
helm working order until next Fail. One advantage of
the chemical laboratories is mat cdch desk Is sup
piled with water from separate spgot. ,, ,o,u,,,r
The total of tho building has been IN the nclgnDOr
hood OF $4,000 THIS does not include OF course the
sum subscribed for the erection and equipment OF the
laboratories 100000 This sum existed originally
relieving thu adoption Of the recent reforms i'll the plan
OF education III the medical school, AS soon az IL was
Uncovered that the new plan was to be eminenty
cessfu in every way, the guarantee money was al once
turned over 10 suitable committee To he employed III
binding these magnificent laboratories. Among the
contributors the above fund were George b. Wood NJ
D. Charles c. Harrison, A Whitney and sons, Alexander
Brown Henry G.. Gibson. Fairman Rogers, the widow
of +. l.. Horstman, William Welghtman, Drs. s. Weir
Mitchell, William Pepper William Goodell, Horace
Evens Albert H. smith, James Hutchinson and Thomas
Biddle, Joshua j. Lppmcott, X. stewart Wood, j.
Vaughan MeIrtck Thomas A. Scott, a. j. Dre1el John
Welsh John Ashurst John Wyeth and brother, Henry C.
Lea Isaac Lea, George 5. Pepper. William L. Pepper
William Sellers, Samuel ClarksOn and Robert DAVIS
These have just been announced There are 100
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