New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-26
roadways of the Bridge to pass all cyclists over tho
Bridge free Of charge.
THEY WE'RE JUST IN TIME.
MEDICAL STUDENTS REAP THE BENEFIT
OF A NEW LAW
TIME SAVED FOR GRADUATES OF THE LONG ISL
AND COLLEGE HOSPTTAL-POINTS OLE
THE NEW ACT.


| The medical profession Of this city is par
tcularly Interested at present in bill signed
by Governor Morton last Saturday night, which
permits medical students to be graduated under
the conditions which prevailed at the time they
| began their studies The bill was introduced
by Senator Nussbaum. The interesting part OF
the law reads:
The degree of bachelor or doctor OF medicine shan
NOT he conferred in this State before the candidate
has niod with the institution conlerris j.. & the
tiicate Of the regents that before Degl'liIs t
nrst annual medical course counted toward tne
degree unless matrculated condtionally ds het ~,
after spec fled three years before the ua.c VI Ia
degreel he had either graduated from a reElste'Gu
college or satisfactorily completed a Iuii cI" 80
"A registered academy or high school, or niu d ptbe
lirninary education considered and accepted 10y w
regents fully equivalent: or heiI % 40, took
zeal student certificate. granted before TINS ac' ,o
effect had passed regents eXainhatioh aS "e'
medical school may marlcuate condItionally
student deficient not more than one y year aea
demic work or twelve counts OF the prcilinli'dIiS
sauration requirement. provided the name ana De.
lciency of each student 50 matrlcuiattu ne III. a.
the regents office within three on made M before
ulatlon and that the deficiency pe maj nti Course
the student begins the second annual medca; hsG
counted toward l9e dygrte MEDICAL echoo before
June . 1890 and students who had uti Co ~,
having entered before June D. 1880 on the prescrIDed
three years study Of medicine SHAH be exempt i'o
this preliminary education requremI.t earrad with
meca student eerin;"l the c % ma
@ n,,I me- Neal course counted toward the
1 nv two years before the date Of the degree
FOR matrculans I'm any registered medlcai sc'oo' "
W tr rnetriculants prior to May g. 1898, for any
,v.cr,v counts allowing ten for the preliminares'
not including reading and writing - con- -. ,r,,b
mntc' eiemcntary English geography, spelling
fhystcs or any nifty counts. allowing fourteen lot
a. 4 For matricuan,s prior January l. 1896 for
any F l%eT maireants prior to January l. 1871 for
any twenty-four academic count AZ ,a-y 1897 must
secure fortv-cight academic counts or their III
gpy ys1 ee i1re '' isoWaTG tSc @ETe 9: al
mlttcl conditonally hereinbefore specled "hrn
he deGciancv must b., made up before the StuI.n,
begins the second annual medical course counter
This act shall take effect immediately. ex,
ca,. tf,t he Increase in the required course OF
medical study from three rec, 70 sn Ipr NOT appy to stu
dents Who maircuacd before nat dats ah1 wno
r.r.iv.l the logree OF doctor OF me1lcihe oe'o'e
DR. Joseph H. Raymond. II Joralemon-s'' VINO
ia secretary Of the Faculty at the Long island
College Hospital. said in reference to the Dill 70
Tribune reporter last night:
The measure as 1t is now seems to be just
orc The act which provided for the preliminary
education II medical students was passed III
1883 and had been variously amended UP 7"
1885 During the latter year the act was UNI
i;st lnasmuch as II changed conditions un ier
stllHl students
,.iier.s ~ tho state could BE- graduated. TINS
o., VAS not intended or supposed either by me
regents II the University at Albany, or py i,eu'
III ,,Il.ras T. apply u already matriculated
students but only to apply u those VINO snpu'u
ruafricilate after the law paHted Inc ol,.il'uI'
II Judge willard Bartlett or the supreme ~. t
elycn last fall showed that this view OF the
law was Incorrect In his opinion, he SAID inc
law sypli,i H. al medical students, irrespective
-, m. date on which they ratricuated In orHer
10 overcome the defects Of the law OF 1888. SEN
st. Nussbauu introduced the measure when
c.,.orrnr Morton has lust signed. The bill was
rf.pared hy the regents 81 the University OF the
state IF New-York. Conclsely what the Jaw a.-
r,rullshcs IS 20 permit students e. graduate
under the conditions which prevailed ut the time
,h.v began the study Of medicine. In additon
>. this I, provides that after January l. iS'>'
tho existing three years Of study ana three
nrracs ~ lectures shall be- changed to four years
and four lecture courses. ,
out - the aftv-one students who received their
ditlomas last night at the Long Island College
Uosnltal thirty protited by the new law; II the
lin had not been signed they would not nave re-
coiyed their degrees for several months.