The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-11-23
Latin for the Eowdoin and Portland
Medical Schools.

A correspondent who is member of the Port
land School Of Medical Instruction, sends the
PRESS a long communication, in which he alleges
that while the medical school at Brunswick allows
student TO enter who has no knowledge Of Latin
the Portland Medical School makes some knowl.
edge of that language an indispensable prereque-
site. The result is that a student who has been
admitted to the Brunswick school frequently finds
himself barred out of the annex the Portland
school, because he has no knowledge of Latin.
This condition Of things he thinks Is Injurious to
both the schools and does great injustice to stu
dents. He says
The Maine Medical School and the Portland
School for Medical instruction are to all good pur-
poses one and the same The professors In the
ne are the inst uctors In the other,-in the one
ana pupil during twenty-slx weeks In the other
you are pupil stil, but for five months must ac-
custom yourself to gather from lectures at the
lips OF speakers. The combined instruction In
9TH schools for given term Of years may be
greater than that afforded by any other medical
school in the land, butts none too great Ii is but
ne Just recognition Of need long felt,-increass
Ia the period OF medical study. The interests OF
the one school are the interests Of the other the
success oil the one the measure Of success Of the
other. The students Of the 0ne,-where gradua-
ton Is the end sought should To the last man be
the students Of the other. The boast Of the grad
paring notes. with the graduates Of other schools
Is, that the Medical School at BOwd0in in connec-
tioh Nibh tilt IOftlduu StuOOi, LOBclncf with the
advantages TO be derived from the study 0f clini
cal and medical diseases at the Maine General
hospital equals in its scope and advantages that
0f any school Of its class In the country
In view OF these facts all will admit that the
terms Of admission for both schools should be the
same. No one Will deny but that the existing
condition OF things Is awkward to say the least At
cross purposes as they now are,-to the degree
indicated,-they can but work 10 the detrIment OF
some, not few. who would naturally be students
In both institu ions.
why continue to graduate men at Brunswick
who hare no knowledge Of Latin. the very "mOIher
tongue" OF the profession they have chosen as
their life work and Of what use Is Latin re-
quirement" that at best amounts TO but little
that works to handicap mauy an honest student
only 10 see him graduate In time and turn never
theless, at Bowdoin.
Let US have Latin among the requirements for
admission TO both schools; let us give the Latin
language the recognition IL Is entitled to In con
nection with the study Of medicine; let us exact
IRON all future eand dates for medical honOrs a
good fair knowledge of the language sufficient
Tor practical purposes at east (such for instance
as the study OF Hardness Grammar and Compan-
ION Reader would furnish); let us raise the stan
dard IN scholarship by so much,-an object
greatly to be desired. Latin TO this amount or
greater, in both schools sufficient to command
recognition and respect, Will, we venture 10
assert, be cheerfully met and appreciated by all
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