The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-06-29


side OF the management will be
directed by the board OF trustees and
its committees. Frequent meetings
OF the members Of this board are now
being held and the profound interest
which these busy Iaymen are mani
Testing I'm this school and the vaiuaele
time which they arc willing to saeri-
fice In its interest furnish striking
evidence CT the importance which the
work has assumed in the eyes of the
community.
Center for Virginia.
The double equipment, that of the
University College OF Medicine being
practically fresh from the factory.
Will offer ample facilities to all COM
ers. Individual instruction viii be
emphasized The chief laboratories
will be in charge of saiaried experts
who will give their full time to the
college. Original research work will
be encouraged and post graduate
courses will be introduced later. Both
contracting schools were recognized
and rated in Glass A by the govern
ing bodies on medical education in the
United States. and 1t Is needless to say
that this standard will not only be
maintained but elevated. IL is prob
able that the entrance requirements
already high. will be materially raised
before long. Questions of official coll
lege publications and other such mat
ters will have to be determined by
the future. Dormitories have been
mooted from time to time and IL lis not
unlikely that a genuine university lie
will soon be springing up around the
institution. Various other plans are
being projected and in every way the
college will seek not only to thorough
ly equip those who ask and obtain ad-
mission. but to become In time a
fountain head and source of inspira-
ton to its alumni who may, as cir
cumstances shall permit, return to 1t
occasionally for refreshment of ideals
and for acquaintance with the latest
and the best that the medical thought
and experience of the world have to
offer.
To the people of Richmond no fea-
ture of the college work will appeal
with more force or with moro promise
of practical benefits than the dispen-
saries. where not only skilled advice
but treatment, including drugs. Is
given absolutely free. Particular at
tention will be given to this depart
ment and capable staff of physicians
and surgeons. assisted by senior stu
dents, will be In regular attendance to
meet the needs Of the ambulatory sick
and injured of the city. Incidentally
the dispensary will furnish to mem
bers Of the upper classes an unexcelled
opportunity to study disease at first
hand and to apply the diagnostic and
therapeutic measures with which they
have become familiar In the didactic
courses elsewhere In the college. Ad-
ditionai training of this sort, inval-
liable to the senior. will be abundantly
furnished by the regular hospital and
bedside clinics.
New Factor i'm Athletics.
When the new session begins an
other step in consolidation will be
| taken---the welding of the two stu
dent bodies.
! The admirable spirit which has
animated the faculties in laying aside
their differences and uniting in cor
dial cooperation Is just as admirably
being displayed by the students. They
are all under one banner now and
there will be no half hearted al
Giegiance The two schools have come
together on terms honorable to both.
There has been absorption of neither
by the other. but consolidation and
an entirely new college as the re-
suit.
For the students at the opening Of
the session there will he important
questions of college colors. class Of
/ ficers, and officers Of the student
body. Al time when broad matters
/ Of general policy are yet unsettled 1t
may appear irrelevant 70 speak OF
athletics, but to Virginian lovers or
college sport 1t Will be not unwelcome
to record the appearance of new
and potential factor in the field.
! Drawing its more than half thous-
and men from many academic schools
and many States the Medical College
Of Virginia Will be in position to call
for an accounting when II comes to
honors on the athletic, and particu-
larry the football, field. 1t will after
this be no surprising thing to see, at
last, a Richmond eleven holding Its
own against the best Drawn and
brains in the South.
The Old and the New.
Into the new school go the spirit
hopes and past careers of IVY worthy
predecessors The MedicaTollege OF
virginia. whose State-enIo flowed name
Is retained for obvious /reasons, be-
gan life at the dawH of medical
training in the SouthI three quarters
of century ago. thY University Col
lege of Medicine haS completed the
twentieth year of itsA existence, To
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