Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-02-05

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College is the director of the Experiment Station. He has been loaded
down with the work Of teaching. The same thing may be said of other
men on the staff. However desirable it may be that the Experiment
Station and the Agricultural College should have a real and vital con-
nection, it is clear that the chief reason for the existence of the former
institution has been taken away if its staff is to be made chiefly a
body of teachers. No other form of research in the history of the
world has ever been similarly endowed. If money could promote inves
tigation in proportion to the amount expended, research in agriculture
ought to exceed in efficiency any other field of scientific endeavor. AS
a matter of fact, however, only a small proportion of these funds ever
contributes directly and efficiently to agricultural investigation. They
cannot do 81 when locked up in salaries. Part OF this income should
remain fluid.
In addition to giving to the Agricultural College ar adequate sup
port, it is also clearly the duty of the trustees to set the Agricultural
Experiment Station free to bend it's efforts directly and energeticany
to the investigation of those problems whose solution means so much
to the individual farmer and dairyman. There is a n enormous field
in Vermont for the Agricultural College and the Agricultural Expert
ment Station, but in order that these agencies may do their work.
there must be a clear conception of what that work ought to be, a
suitable organization for carrying it out, and a use of the money now
in hand for the purposes of agriculture rather than for the purposes
of general instruction.
TIE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
The College of Medicine of the University of Vermont is one Of
the old medical schools of the country. 1t began instruction in anatomy
and surgery as early as 1909, and what was considered in that day !
full course of lectures was inaugurated in 1922. By 1886 it had grad
uated 16 doctors of medicine, when, owing to the difficulties Of conf
Quoting the school in a small place, it was abandoned until the veal
1854, when it was re-establshed in an enlarged building. A bette'
building was provided in 1870, and a still better one in 1884. Thi|
last was burned in 1908, and the present building a erected in 1904
at a cost of Sl25,OOO. This building, containing the dssectng rooms
laboratories, and lecture halls, is admirably situated, and is throughout
a wenlighted, wel-heated and wel-ventnated building, and one excel
lenty adapted to it's purposes. Viii it's equipment it is now value
at $15OO0O.
Until 1899 the relation of the College of Medicine to the universit|
was, like that of most American medical colleges. a purely nominal ond
utilization with the university, but practically Independent of its contro
In that year it was made "a co-ordinating department of the Unversit|
under the control of the board of trustees" but it was really not unit
1911 that the College of Medicine was, in the language of the catalogue
made a part of the University system"
The Medical School year was heightened from twenty weeks to sill
months in 1895, to seven months in 1903, to seven and a half in 1907
and to the same length Is the other university terms in 1912.
The College of Medicine is administered through a faculty, with
dean, in much the same manner rs other departments of the universt}
There are at present nine professors, who receive annual salaries Of $500
in all, the regular professors salary of 81 900 being paid to but tr#
men. In addition, there ire a number Of special professors, assstaI
professors, and instructors, some of these being special lecturers brOug4
from Boston and from New York to take up particular subjects.
all there are some forty-four teachers on the instructing staff, twent
eight of whom ART chosen from the siXty-one practicng physicians
Burlington.
The income of the College of Medicine for the year 1921 amour
ed to $34,O1149 of which $780, 1861 20 came from buttons and $1,000
from state appropriations, the remaining small amount being receive
from laboratory fees and room rent. The expenditures consisted
$26,92S.34 for teaching salaries, $539715 for equipment and supple
and 81, 1861 .62 for the maintenance of the building, leaving a small defd
for the year of $17562. The state appropriation of $4,000 began
1909 and has been increased for the year 1913 to $23, 500.
The expenses to the student in attending the medical school cons
of a tuition fee of $l25, a S. naturalization fee, and a $40 annual athle
fee, besides $25 at graduation, charges that IRE comparable with tho
made in similar medical schools.