The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-24
j. c. N. INVITES
PUBLIC TO attend
WISHES TO ILLUSTRATE now
MEDICAL sTUDENTs ARE MADE
INTO DOCTORS.
EXHIBITION is FREE
WILL BE GIVEN ON MONDAY NIGHT
WHEN NEW BUILDING Is
FORMALLY THROWN
OPEN.

With every department going at full
speed just as If It were an hour out
OF regular days work, the University
College of Medicine on Monday even
ing will entertain it's friends and
patrons at formal opening" to which
Invitations are now being issued.
The occasion. which promises to be
something decidedly unique. VIII be In
the nature of an acknowledgment OF
the generosity of the public In con-
tributing so literally to the rebuilding
FUND and incidentally Will afford an
opportunity for the trustees and
faculty to show what has been done
with the sums placed at their disposal.
With its splendid new building the
school today claims equality with any
thing In the country: the demonstra-
tfon now being planned will give the
community chance to decide for itself
and to become directly acquainted
with the meaning of modern medical
education on a large scale.
Students at Their Work.
Laboratories. lecture rooms, dispen-,
saries and dissecting halls Will all be
In complete operation and the students
viii be at work precisely as they are
day In and day out from year to year.
The spirit Of the whole occasion is
to make II truly represent what the
bic. schooi is doing and hence there
will be no specially rehearsed program.
Faculty and scholars will simply go
back 10 tntir posts !of one nIknt Wttii
the public as onlookers and the trus-
tees as hosts. Patients will be under
treatment In the free dispensar'es,
anatomical dissections and micro
scopicaf examinations will be in pro-
gress in all their details: drug rooms
will be sending out prescriptions. and
lecturers viii be talking to their
classes
Visitors VIII be invited TO enter the
various rooms and see at first hand
what is going on. corps of ushers
Will guide them through. The building
and members OF the teaching stan win
be ready to answer questions and ex-
plain any of the work in which their
guests may be specially Interested.
Admission ny Tickets.
Admission will be by ticket only.
The Invitations are being sent partic-
ularly to those who contributed to the
rebuilding fund and are In the form
of Handsomely engraved souvenir cards
expressing the appreciation. Of the coli
lege of the Interest shown by the
community TN it's welfare. Physicians
of the city and prominent local educa-
tors will be the special guests Of the
faculty and there will be some in
teresting private demonstrations for
tacfr- beneffs committee of ladies
with Mrs. j. Allison Hodges as chair
man viii act as a receiving party.
The formal opening will not only
furnish novel spectacle. but at the
same time viii be Instructive to many
who have very dim conception OF
the laborious DAYS spent by the naedic teal
student before he Is adjudged capable
OF caring for thea sick. 1t will be a
matter Of interest to the public. more
over, to inspect the real internal ma
chinery of an institution that has
become source OF pride to the city.
In this connection not the least notable
exhibit will be the Naturalization books
showing a freshman enrolment nearly
double that of last year.