The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-29
COLLEGES AT
ATLANTA CONSOLIDATED

| Atlanta. June 2S.-tSpecial THE
announcement, made today, of the con-
solidation of the Atlanta College of
lanta School of Medicine, under the
| name of the Atlanta Medical college
will come a surprise to the medical
fraternity throughout the south.
| These two well known medical edu-
cational institutions, particularly the
| former, on account of it's age, have
graduates in every southern states and
in many other sections of the United
States.
The enrolment of the Atlanta Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons last
| year was 334 and that of the Atlanta
School of Medicine 21S, ma king a total
ing not only all of the states of the
south. but other sections and several
| foreign countries as we'll This will
| give the new Atlanta Medical college
splendid enrolment and its future
purpose will be as stated in the an
| nouncement of the consultations, not
so much to increase the attendance as
| to elevate the standard.
| Both of these colleges have been op-
Grated public institutions and the
| consolidated college will remain on
the same basis. There has never been
any purpose of institutional gain and
| they have sought only to meet ex-
penses and to give to the south cap
able and well equipped physicians.
| This consolidation is the outgrowth
| of medical education which began in
Atlanta before the war The Atlanta
Medical college was the name of the
| first institution of the kind founded in
Atlanta in 1854. 1t suspended during
| the war and the building was used as
a hospital. 1t was merged in 1898 with
the Southern Medical college to form
the Atlanta College of Physicians and
| Surgeons. The Atlanta School of Med
icine was founded in 1905 and now
these two have come together, taking
the name of the old before the war
institution. the Atlanta Medical col
lege.
The new institution will begin work
| in the fall under the most favorable
auspices. 1t will have as president. DIR
| Willis f. Westmoreland, a leading sur
| Seoi, anu LIT. w. >. Elk1n, former pres
! ident of the Atlanta College of Ply
sicians and Surgeons, will be dean of
the faculty. Two other leading officers
! Will be nominated by the Atlanta
School Of Medicine and the faculty will
| be composed of the best talent in both
| institutions.
In announcing the consolidation the
| committees from the two institutions
| state that it has been their object "to
| organize an institution of dignity and
| of permanent promise whose graduates
! VIII receive general recognition
| through the United States-an institu
tion so constituted as to make it a
real public asset and so conducted as
| to expect and to deserve the heartiest
| popular commendation."
| Special stress is laid upon che condi-
! tons which make it possible to main
tain high class medical college here
and. it is stated a widespread recog-
| milton has been promised abroad which
could not have been secured had the
/ two Institutions remained apart Both
| gether. but it is said there was no
disagreement over any of the terms
| 1t is stated that the immediate ef-
| feet of the consolidation will be the
| placing of the Atlanta Medical col
| lege in "Class A" by the American
| Medical association and it is rendered
! eligible to membership in the Associa-
tion of American Medical Colleges Rep
resentatives of the new institution
! have just returned from Chicago
where they received assurances from
the council on medical education that
| the new college would be given such a
! rating as will admit its graduates to
practice anywhere in the world.
Andrew Carnegie gave the institution