The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-11-13
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The Boston Herald printed long
story last week exposing the sO-called
union Medical Institute" of Newbury,
which it is said has sold diplomas for
$50 apiece in the West, and upon whose
catalogue are given the names of incom-
petent men as professors with fictitious
degrees. 1t is said that so great is the
evidence of fraud against the promoters
of the scheme that the matter has been
taken up by prominent men in the State
and placed in the hands of lawyers.
The next day another dispatch from
Montpelier stated: The exposure of the
bogus medical cOllegs at Newbury, pub.
lished in Herald, was read with eager In.
terest here, for there has been a good
deal of talk about such things ever since
the session of the legislature begun.
The facts about the institution at Rut-
land are well known, and some of the
members Of the legislature have heard
rumors of bogus colleges at other places
but hardly one has dreamed such facts
as the Herald gives.
About the best informed man on the
subject is Gov. Page.
when | was in Rutland some time
ago" said Gov. Page, 81 saw sign
Vermont Medical College on building
there, and felt a shock, for that was,
years ago, the name of an institution at
Woodstock that stood high, and knew
that was managed by DIR. DuttOn, whose
name had been in the newspapers great
deal.
'He issued diplomas which the SUI
preme court of the State declared worth
less. l thought that either he should be
compelled to give his diplomas such a
character that they would be recognized,
or laws should be made which would
prevent his issuing them at all, and be-
gan to investigate.
~ found that there were three other
concerns OF the kind-One at Bennington
one at Newfane, and this one at New
bury, exposed by the Herald,
THE one at Bennington is called the
medical branch of Trinity university,
believe, and has articles of incorporation
filed in the Town Clerks Office.
For the good name of the State have
felt anxious to get the institution cleared
out, and have repeated conferred with
the matter Lawyers tell me that it is
not easy to frame bill to meet some of
the cases, and do not know that any
thing has been done.
~ do not know that Vermont laws are
more lax than those of other states, but
yet these bogus colleges seem to flock in
here"
The governor evidently thinks the
physicians should move in the matter.
DIR. DuttOn processes to give real in
structiOn, and has been here all through
the session trying to get his college In
corporated. He cannot possible do that,
but gets an astonishing amount of sym
pathy by filling the ears of the members
with tales of persecution by physicians.
The Bennington concern has its mail
addressed to a postoffice in New Hamp-
shire,
The State Medical Society decided, at
a recent meeting, to take no formal ac-
ton In regard to bogus colleges for fear
of arousing prejudice, but members
were urged to exert themselves privately,
DR.. II. d. HoltOn of BrattlebOro, who is
here, says that the postmaster at New
bury knows nothing about any medical
college, and that the institution may, in
fact, be somewhere else, but that diplo-
mas have appeared in the West dated at
Newbury,