Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-02
MEDICAL SCHOOL,

Increase in Students-Changes in Faculty-Need of Financial Aid Dean Smith Interviewed.
 The Medical school opened yesterday l with between thirty-fve or forty men in the entering class, gratifying increase over previous years.
 The school has undergone this fall a partial reorganization. Many instructors have been appointed. They are bright, l active young men, who will aid materially
 in raising the standard of the school Dr. Thomas H. Russell has been trans to that of clinical surgery and surgical anatomy.
 Lewis DeForest, NJ. D., has been ap- pointed instructor in clinical medicine. He is graduate of Yale college '79, took his M. D. at Jena and has had large ex- perience as member of the staff at the hospital.
 Dr. o. T. Osborne will give instruction in materia medica and therapeutics. He, too, is Yale graduate both of the college and medical school, has studied abroad and has for while practiced here.
 Harry B. Ferris, M. D., the new instruc- tor in anatomy, is graduate of Yale col lege and the medical school and has had practice in hospital. Dr. Graham Lusk, appointed instructor in physiology, is the son of Professor William T. LusR of Belle vue, N. Y. He is graduate of Columbia and took his doctorate at Munich. Dr. Charles G. Foote, graduate of Yale 'S3 and Harvard M. D. He has been appoint ed demonstrator of bacteriology and assistant in the surgical clinic. He has practiced in the Boston City hospital, and for three years has been at work here on his chosen line.
 Dr.Joseph Townsend has been appointed assistant of the medical clinic. He is a graduate of Yale 'S5 and late graduate of the medical school and has had consid- erable hospital and regular practice. Mr. Robert O. Moody, graduate of Cornell, is instructor in histology. The work of the Professor Russell and Dr. Lusk.
 Dean Smith, who has done so much in equipping and organizing the school and bringing it to it's present efficient state, said in effect: "We have about reached the limit in the number of students that we want. Our efforts shall be to better the equipment and increase the efficiency of the school rather than to increase the number of students. We don't want more than 100 students. To train physician requires an immense amount of individual assistance, and 100 men are all that 8 faculty can instruct carefully and we'll. We would rather have 200 applicants and but 100 men than 200 machine-made doctors. We would have better material and we could do bet ter work. The efficiency of school is not tested by the number of it's graduates. The Medical school is entirely without en- dowment. The gradual increase in the number of students shows the confidence which exists in the methods that are in use. The last thing usually man ever thinks to endow is medical school; but yet the school is at least of as much importance to the people of New Haven as the college; for, if a man wants to send his son to college, he can send him to Harvard or somewhere else, but if he is sick he must call in a Yale M. D. to treat him. Why shouldn't our department receive as much financial encouragement as any others That we are doing good work is attested by the fact that our men fill practically all the hospi- tals about here, where the appointment depends on competitive examinations. As I said, we are doing good work, but we can do better.