Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1915-08-13

the west at last has become, In the
fullest sense, the equal of the East In
the teaching of medicine. What is re-
garded by many critics as the best bal
anced group of medical buildings In
the world has risen at st. Louis. The
great work is finished, with the excep-
ton of the students dormitory, on
Forest Park boulevard, due to be ready
for occupancy in December, and the
Nurses Home, the exterior brick work
on which already is about complete,
although supplementary buildings may
be erected later on.
Backed by millions Of dollars for
buildings and equipment and endow-
ments totaling millions of dollars more,
all given by loyal friends of Washing
ton University, who recognized an OPP
portunity to render humanity great,
enduring service and at the same time
advance that university to the front
rank of the worlds institutions of
learning, the Corporation of Washing
ton University wisely began its work
in behalf of greater medical school
by acquiring not buildings but men.
One of Americas Big Three.
The buildings, which, with their
modern equipment and the distin-
guished medical scientists presiding
over them, have lifted the Washington
University Medical School into class
the only other American members Of
which, strictly speaking, are the Johns
Hopkins Medical School and the Har-
ward Medical School, both of the East,
were planned in consultation with a
group of the worlds foremost authori-
ties on medicine and allied sciences.
These same great men, whom the
mighty school of medicine that has
sprung up In the West was SO for
tunate as to secure as members of it's
faculty, also decided, of course, what
should and should not constitute the
equipment of these buildings. Long
before the completion of the buildings,
visitors began arriving in ST. Louis for
the sole purpose of inspecting this
equipment, which is said to be the
most nearly perfect of any in exist
ence.
st. Louis Becomes a World Center.
The metropolis of the American
Southwest thus takes it's place as a
world center Of that noblest, perhaps,
of all forms of education-the educa-
ton that has for its chief purposes the
saving of human life and the lessen
ing of human suffering.
A general statement issued by the
Medical School in connection with the
completion of the buildings and includ-
ing brief history of the school is in
part as follows
The Medical Department of Washing
ton University, known since 1909 as the
Washington University Medical School,
continues the work of the st. Louis Med
ical College and the Missouri Medical
College the two Oldest medical schools
west of the Mississippi River.
The Medical Department of Kemper
College of st. Louis was organized ia
1870. In 1S45 1t became the Medical De-
partment of the University of the State
Of Missouri. BY change of it's charter
In 1855. IL was made an independent in
stitution known as the Missouri Medical
College: The work of the School was
discontinued in 1862, but resumed in 1865
at the end of the Civil War.
The Medical Department of ST Louis
University, founded in 1912, was char
tered as an independent institution in 1855
under the name of the st. Louis Medical
College.
The Medical Department of Washing
ton University was created by the cor
poration in 1891, when the st. Louis Med
zeal College became part of the WASH
ington University. In 1899 the Missouri
Medical College was merged with this
department.
Graduates Of the st. Louis Medical Col
lege number 2,125; of the Missouri Medi-
cal College, 1886; and of the Medical
Department of Washington University,
7O4.
In 1910 the corporation of the Uni
versity. appreciatine the value Of the