The San Francisco call., 1897-08-11
They Wage a Wordy War
at the Meeting of the
Board Of Regents.
The Plan to Affiliate the Two
Institutions Is Bitterly
Opposed.
Decisive Action Deferred Until the
Next Meeting-Routi Busi-
ness Transacted.

At the meeting OF the Board of Regents
yesterday afternoon the question OF
affiliating the Hahnemann Medical Col
lege with the medical college OF the uni
yersity caused much discussion between
the disciples of the two schools OF medl-
cine. The Hahnemann College Is
homeopathic institution and, on the
grounds that the supporters and practl'
tioners of this school were taxpayers,
made application to be affiliated with the
university, although they did not request
that room be assigned them in the
Affiliated Colleges building. Their appli-
cation was signed by Justice W. c. Van
Fleet, Justice w. C. Garoutte, Judge E. A.
BeIcher, Z. w. Ames, Philip Galpin, Bar
CLAY Henley, Louis Sloss, P. l.. Lilienthal,
Issac Requa, Horace Davis and Irving NJ.
Scott, and when the committee reported
on it they assumed that it would be
granted, and their report recon mended
on what terms the atfiliation should be
cons ummated.
When Regents Phelps, Hallidie, Marye,
Denicke. Martin, John Budd, Rodgers,
Wallace, Reinstein, Jeter, Miller, Fooie,
Coombs and: Mrs. Phebe Hearst assem- bled
they decided that, in view OF the large
number of protests against atnl.atIon
which had been received, the meeting
should be thrown open and both sides
given hearing.
DR., George III. Martin of the Hahne-
mann Medical College fraternity took the
floor first He first made review OF the
rise of homeopathy and commented on its
rapid growth in this country, where at
present three State universities, namely
those of Michigan, Minnesota and Iowa,
had affiliated with the homeopaths and
ha nd
consideration. In the United States there
are 1900 homeopathic practitioners,
against about 100000 allopathic. There
are also nineteen homeopathic colleges,
with about 1000 students. With this rep
resentation of taxpayers, DR.. Martin
thought the homeopaths were certainly
entitled to affillatlon with the State uni
versities. When questioned by Regent
Rodgers as to the present financial condi-
ton of the institution, the number of
students, chairs, ETC., DR.. Martin replied
that he had not prepared himself 10 give
figures relating to the financial condition
OF the institution, but was certain that 1t
was good. He said that last year they
had had about twenty-five chairs, inclu-
sive of lecureships, with roll OF thirty
two students.
DIR. Thorne then took the floor on be-
half of the opposition. He began by the
reading OF protest from the City ard
County Medical Society, which is in part
as follows:
1--WE claim as alumni of the department
of the University OF California that we
have, by payment OF our fees and the pur-
suance OF the curriculum, earned our
diplomas with a jealous care, and strive
by our personal conduct to preserve them
untarnished. Should our alma mater he
tainted with homeopathy our standing
will be lowered. our degrees will be dis
grGced and degraded, and We can never
again refer to this alma mater with rever-
ence and respect. We call TO your atten-
ton that, with one unfortunate excep-
ton, no reputable medical college OF the
United States has formed such an alli-
ance."
The petition bore the signatures of
Washington Dodge, A. A. D. Ancona,
J: NJ. Williamson, F. D. Dudley, F. a.
c. D. McGettigan, W. H. Mays, W. c.
Hay and Robert A. Mclean.
DR.. Rose nstirn then stated that his chief
objection to affiliation was from a strong
feeling of attachment to the university as
a place of education, and that while he
admitted the fact that homeopathy had
grown rapidly in America, still the soil of
America was very prolific, and in growing
many beautiful ana useful plants it also
brought forth a great many weeds. He
said:
Homeopathy has many converts as
we'll DIS piIoI IaQs, dlluOuRu II IS pare OF
anything that can claim recognition In
the field OF science. In fact, not single
discovery has been made by homeopa-
thist that has ever been accorded any .
scientific value. About the only success
full practitioners have been men who have
TO Europe, where no homeopathic schools
exist, and have come back and practiced
under the assumed name of homeopa-
thists."
After both sides had been given a fair
hearing it was decided to lay the matter
over until the next regular meeting of the
board, when decided action will be taken,
and the regular routine business was
taken ur. A letter was received from Pro-
fessor Moses, who has been making re-
searches in Japan for the last year, re-
questing a further extension of time. He
was granted leave of absence until the
first of October. Professor Babcock, who,
has been spending his vacation in Boston,
requested leave Of absence until August
So which was refused, and he will be
notified 10 report for duty at the usual
time.