The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-03-25
red the school and those who compose

tered the school and those who compose
y now.
I'VE cannot. however. admit that this
Is his real opinion without coupling II
with a very low estimate ~ his general
character. else his sense or soif-respcct
would have long since compelled him 10
sever the connection which he held with
II for manv wears as its emeritus pro-
fessor Of surgery. TIL last year. in
deed. whom no transferred his connection
10 the nov school. Nor would he. were
this his real opinion. when seeking for
the Intellectual outht or the college
which he was founding AMI which is
now the University CoHese or Medicine.
have selected eight OF our graduates FOR
It's professors. and eleven OF our graduates
for its adjunct professors. Nor would he
have chosen as one OF the resident ply
slcians Of his prlyate hospital, *. Luke's
Home. one OF our graduates OF so very
recent a date as last year. lie has not
for many Years been intimately connected
with orr college and so would naturally
and excusabiv fall into some errors i'm
Judging If ,,s standing and condition. IL
NAV no thu, no il misled by his recollec-
ton Of its state when he was It's profess
sor NJ SURGERY. during which period the
number Of ne students fell as low as
"AAAAA vi O.
twenty I'M, We assure him everything
has greatly changed for the better since
he left II. While Or. j. ). D.. Cullen was
its professor Of surgery the number Of
its students rose 20 seventy-four, and this
year Or. George Ben. Johnston. who is
NOW Tia nrofossor OF surgery, teaches a
class Of ninetv-six. all obtained only by
methods recognized as legitimate by repu-
table educational institutions, and the
numbor not made up partly by medical
and partlv bv pharmaceutical and dental
students as are the lS enumerated by
him as composing the class OF the Uni
versitv College Of Medicine. The attack
Of the whole faculty on DR.. MCGUIRE, Of
which he complains, IS simply explained
by the fact that Dr. Mcclure attacked
the whole faculty. Had he attacked only
one OF us. only one or US would a V at
tackled him. His ahectauon OF not know
Ing who we are Is. we are Obliged 10 say,
very childish. lie has always known very
we'll who we are when ne wished 10 inJufe
us. If he really thinks we are an lmper-
sOnal faculty, We tell nm plainly that the
sentiment expressed i'm what is signed
THE Faculty Of the Medical College OF
Virginia" and which we reiterate here
with emphasis, are the sentiments or
cdcQ Individual tNAlF@'4A1 - ONA 1AhNl'
was thus signed for the a X Of brevity
and because II is a conventional method
used by colleges, and not. we assure him,
because any one OF US would hesitate to
put his name singiy 10 what is or has
been stated by ali of us. But IL he Is
still in doubt az 10 who we are he will
find our names at the end Of his article.
We believe that we have now salts
~factorily answered all that is Of import
ance In Or. McGuire's article, n we
have done so ia a straightforward man
ner, n in the face - great temptation
10 retaliate sharply. We have thought 1t
more c~onsonant with propriety and self
respect TO express ourselves in dispassion-
ate and dignihed terms.
CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS,
WM. II. TAYLOR.
MARTIN L. JAMES,
HENRY II. LEVY.
JOHN y. UPSHUR.
LEWIS &. BOSHER,
GEO. BEN. JOHNSTON.
CHARLES 81. SHIELDS,
j. w. LONG.
j.. PAGE MASSIE.
Richmond. Va, March %, 1891.