New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-29
TIE NEW MEDICAL COLLEGE.

AN ADJUNCT OF CORNELL IN THIS CITY.
THE PLAN OF THE PROFESSORS WHO RECENTLY RI
SIGNED FROM THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF
THE UNIVERSITY.
Cornell University is The institution with Wmch
be former members of the postgraduate faculty. OF
the University of the City OF New-Nork have Deeh
negotiating since their designations. ten DAYS age,
and il is probable that a medical department VIII
be established in this city IN connection with that
university. private meeting OF the elght probes
soTs who lately resigned their positions because
they were not permitted to carry OUT
sy,tem OF ost-gTaduate instruction u. o., was
No. 10 West Tbiriy-fflh-st., last night, ana
a report was received from committee appointed
to confer with Presi lent White, o. Cornell Il was
stated that while no positive action h4d beth ihtIi
the probability was that at a meeting soon 10 De
held between represent ItIVe5 OF Cornell ana ne
medical professors satisflctOrY arrangements could
be decided upon, by which an endowed medical fo,,
lcgc could be organized here "a part OF Sorucii
University. The original idea OF the postgraduate
faculty was 10 organize i coilcSr merry A'i pos
graduate instruction, but II - ~" Iit ' :
to have q college where O only this special class Of
studies shall be- pursued, but also To have an IN
dergraduate department. ms new plan mas pceu
suggested 10 the faculty by the generally expressed
opinions Of the medical profession IN TINS elty ana
throughout tie state The new college, II II stated
will dher from the one hitch the faculty has eft.
and also from Bellevue and the COLLEGE OF siclais
and Surgeons IN seveial particulars, II
Will have entrance examinations; ITS classes
will be graded; ther. viii be a
postgraduate course: the clinical facilities
of the city viii be utilized 10 the fullest extent IN
CARVING out the advanced course OF study t0r
prac itiOuers: and every prOfe~sOrin the college Will
have Il voice in its government Beside these con-
dIfIOhs ID viii be endowed Institution, 81 that
the professors Will not be dependent Tor their ices
upon the SIZE of the classes. he special studies IN
medicine VIII receive thorough discussion, ana
the illustration Of special diseases by he ald o.
clinics will be carried on u 1t i IN Berlin, vienna
ana Paris.
The lGea of Organizing a medical college in this
eli v 10 become part OF Cornell University Il not a
new one. Seven OF eight years agO the subject was
under discussion for snort time, nut the University
Medical College had Just been reOTgaDIzed and had
recently moved into it's new buildings, III Last
IWenty-slXth-st. and, a. n promised 10 make post
graduate studies leading feature the subject was
dropped. it j. understood that President White X
Cornell II IL succeeds III becoming endowed. The
res gnatIOus OF the eignt professors who are al
known through their books ana By their
work as professors and practitioners,
has opened the way for the renewal
of the proposition. The unammOus opinion Of
these men Is thai there Will b. no difficulty ia get
ting sufficient endowment fund 10 remove all OBJ
lcciOns on that point the part OF the authorities
of Cornell. Although he medical department VIII
be in this city, 300 miles rom the University
proper il was stated last night that II would be
entirely under the super islOn OF It's Board OI
Trustees. and the degree would be conferred from
Ithaca BY the president OF the University.
Should The proposed plan ian TO bc adopted and
the trustees OF Cornell decline 10 carry Out the
rangemrut, which already has The sanction OF
President White, Professors Wilder and Gage, and
other friend, Of Cornell, the committee stated, an
independent and proprietary medical college viii ice
founded here The Board oi trustees Ot Cornell has
al present foar members living ID tins city and IN
Observation-Disclosures Cornell, son OF Ezra Cornell.
the founder of the University, Alfred :. barnes.
Stewart l.. WOodiOrt and Era-tus Brooks. his
proportion of trustees Is usually gwen 10 ms par'
of the state so that the new branch. il adopted,
would be unaer the personal supervision OF part OF
the Board " Trustees