The San Francisco call., 1898-10-20
MEDICINE ID
 BE IGNORED IN
 A NOBLE HOME Affiliated Colleges to
 Open. AN IMPORTANT DEPARTURE ON SATURDAY THE UNIVERSITY WILL CELEBRATE. Hints That the Step. Is Fraught With Significance for the Ele- vation of Therapeutic
 Science.
AN IMPORTANT DEPARTURE
ON SATURDAY THE UNIVERSITY
 WILL CELEBRATE.

Invitations are Issued for the opening exercises of the medical department of the University of California in Its new home, south of Golden Gate Park, on Sat urday afternoon, the 22d inst.
 The programme as now arranged will consist of twelve numbers, several of them musical selections, and will include addresses by Governor Budd. or in his absence, by Mayor J. D. Phelan. Profes- sor Martin Kellogg, president of the uni Versity; pr. R. Beverley Cole, president of the medical department, and pr. Wash ington Dodge, as the representative ot the medical faculty. The exercises are 10 commence at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and following them a cold lunch will De served in one of the larger lecture rooms.
 It will be recalled that the bill authoriz- ing the erection of buildings for the af1Il- ated colleges of the State University, ana appropriating the sum of $250,000 for that purpose, was passed by, the last State Legislature, and with the signature Of Governor Budd, became law.
 Immediately after the passage Of this act there were many heated discusslons among the faculties of the medical, den taI law and pharmacy departments as to the site to be chosen for the proposed buildings. The matter was finally settled by the acceptance, on the part Of the joint faculties, of the gift of the late Adolph Sutro of several acres of land to the southwest of and overlooking the park.
 Since the laying of the corner stone, now nearly two years ago, nothing much has been heard of the affiliated colleges, though visitors to the park have watched the accommodating pile of yellow brick on the high ground to the southwest The buildings have, slowly reared themselves above the sand hill in front of the grade on which they are placed, and now pre- sent beautiful sight to the chance Vlsl- tor to the park, who has not passed that way since their erection. They may be inconYenienty located, but the fact can not be denied that they are magnificent sight and add greatly to that section of the city. And too! they are well and solidly built, the foundation and first story being of Folsom granite with the upper stories of pressed brick.
 The buildings themselves are four in number, the medical college having the central position. with the law college on its left and the dental and pharmacy col leges on its right. and the veterinary col lege almost directly behind. In the rear of the medical college building and con meeting with it. is the large auditorium, commodate nearly thousand persons; here will be held the actual exercises of opening the building on Saturday after noon.
 Interest centers upon the medical de- partment at this time, for the reason that it is the first to try the experiment State; the other colleges, 1t is under stood, will not at present occupy the States gift to them. Dr. R. Beverley Cole when interviewed upon the subject said:
 The medical college alone has shown an inclination to aid itself and the State University in this matter of securing new home. The faculty of the medical department have saved all the money earned by the students fees for several years past, and 1t is this money which has furnished the new building for us. The State has not paid one cent for fur nishing the building, but the faculty has devoted the earnings to this purpose, and has not, as in the case of the dental de- o,-+r,o da6 iTG a members
 It is understood that the sum thus saved from medical students fees and applied to furnishing the building, is
 But this occasion will mean something more than the simple opening of a new building for the medical department. It is not generally known, but it Is a fact nevertheless, that the opening will mark the passing of the control Of the affairs of the medical department out of the hands of it's faculty, very largely, and into the hands of the regents of the State University. What will be the future of this branch of the States educational system remains to be seen. but it Is given on the authority of one of the regents that no changes will be made until after a new president has been chosen to sue ceed Professor Kellogg, who will go out of office by virtue of his resignation, In March, 1898.
 Several of the regents have expressed their desire to see the medical department of the State University become the lead ing medical school of this country. Some time ago a joint committee, consisting of three members of the Board of Regents, and the same number of representatives of the medical department faculty, was appointed to devise ways and means and arrange a plan for the. remodeling and improvement of the medical department. It is understood that this committee has entered into correspondence with Johns Hopkins Medical School, in order. to as- certain the plan of operating that institu- ton, and the cost thereof. From the same member of the joint committee It is learned that several faculty chairs will be salaried, and that eminent men in various lines of work will be sought for to fill these positions and devote all their time to the college, work. The new build ing is well provided with room for labora- tories of all sorts, but for these to be of any value it will be necessary, in the opinion of the joint committee, that the chiefs of these laboratories be given suffi-