The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-17
Sights and Scenes Among the
Students.
BUYING AND SELLING BODIES.
The Prepa alton of the Subjects-The
Students First Entrance-Jimmy
Waish's "Ghost"-G eneraI Notes.
Correspondence of THE HERALD:

dents habits, living, and amusements
during their college course, would prob
ably be of some little interest to those
who know nothing of them, and would
recall to the memory OF those who have
been through the mill, the time when
they were young, like all the rest, hav-
ing a good, bad and Indifferent time.
Their work consists in attending the
lectures, clinics, and demonstrations :;
these being conducted in the college
hospitals and dissecting rooms, occupy
their time pretty well during The week
| As a general rule all the Students have
to work very hard to keep posted.
A students boarding house depends
very much upon the state of his means /;
if he is well off, or his parents are pay
ing his way, you might find him in a
favorable location near Broadway and
the college, but. if his means are I'm
tied, which is generally the case, you
would have to look for him quite a
distance from college on some side
street. After you find his house you
then look for his room, which is
generally on the top floor of five or
SIx-story building-a little room
scarcely large enough to turn around
in, the single bed and his trunk
occupying the greater part OF
| the room. Here he can study
his lectures without being disturbed ex-
cept by cat fight or concert on the
adjoining roof. The reason the students
take high elevation is that the rare
Sair is better for them while studying.
(Of course pecuniary circumstances
have nothing to do with it, Going
from the top to the basement We come
to the dining room, which is made up
of a number OF tables that will accom-
modate from fourteen to sixteen per-
sons. Each person is assigned a place,
which he is expected to retain during
his stay. The fare consists of regular
boarding house meals, which, though
| they are nothing extra, are generally
pretty well cleared off by the boys, it
| being well understood fact that all
students have yoracious appetites.
Leaving the boarding house, we will
look into the college building, taking up
that of
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.
1t is a three story brick building
located opposite the Bellevue Hospital
on East Twenty-sixth street. The first
floor is divided into wings east and
west, with a broad hallway between.
The west wing Is DEVOTED to offices and
the reception room OF the clinical
! patients, while the east is museum of
very rare dissections and exceptional
cases of defOrmities and humorous
! groWUhs held in pickle. Passing down
to the back of the hall is broad stair
case leading up to the lecture room.
This we find is arranged in the
auditorium style, with opera chairs
all around, and aisles leading down
from either side. In front of the chairs
is a space rallied off, in which the lee
turer and demonstration stand while
delivering the lecture and demonstra-
tons. It is also in this space, or stage,
that all the surgical clinics are held,
thus giving the students the advantage
of seeing all difficult operations per
formed. The patients are generally
etherized in an adjoining room, and
when fully under its influence, and
after the operating. surgeon has gdefin-
itely explained their cases to the Stu
dents, theyAare brought in and the
operation Garfield on, the surgeon ex-,
planning, in detail, as he proceeds! What
he is doing. It is in this room that the
students, while waiting for the pfofes
sors, have great times. throwing. Wet
sponges, hats, cushions, and passipgyR'
fellow7student all around the room over
their heads, with their Chands. n on
course, one must not get mao, Tbnt
take it in good terms, or else ne wotr ~
be picked continually upon by the rest.
I ,r,Ik div of fhQd1' TIaV@
full moods of the boys is somet thing fear
full, and ittakesiaS much as a. lhaflerI
threequarters of an hour to quiet the p
down after the professor makes his aprr
pearance. AOC>tet - - : =.
Leaving the lecture room we passon
to the staircase and bv a small dooE
that leads soff from it begin an ascent
i to WIFI " JHE-
THE DIssEOTING ROOM. 9UHl
This is where.the students pursue their
course of practical anatomy. and air
though is fascinating to them, it Is
very disagreeable to stranger. The
room there is always q paieness ABOUT
l his face that gives him away, and he is
Immediately laughed at by th' oloer
ones. -
The students of large city always
bear a hard character, and there are
some very hard cases among them, as
well as some hard,working boys; Inc
amusements of Woodworking student
are few, his time being occupied en-
tirely with his studies. He, In the iong
run, is the successful graduate, wnile,
4 on the other hand, the one that has
good time and paints the town rea'
comes up for examination to. graduaee'
finds that he cannot remember the les
sons, and is "pluckedp-an expression
which means that he has failed to pass
the examination. NJ
A peep into the dissecting room. we
find it, as above stated, on the top noor'
The furniture consists of long, mar
row tables, covered with slate slao,
upon which the subject is placed: over
this hangs card, which contains lhs
names of the students dissectlng anu
the respective parts of each. There are