The Harrison times., 1915-09-04

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'
tion 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 totalng millions of dollars more,
all given by loyal friends of Washing
ton University who recognized an op-
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 a 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 a 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 80 for
tunate as to secure as members OF its
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 World Center
The metropolis of the American
Southwest thus takes its place as a
world center of that nobIest, perhaps
of ak forms of eduCation-tbe 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 Ia
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 MiSSiSSlppl RIVER.
The Medical Department Of KempeI
College Of st. Louis was organized II
1870. In lSi5 it became the Medical De
partment of the University OF the state
of Missouri By change Of its charter
In 1855, It was made an Independent in
stitution known rs the Missouri Medica
College. The work Of the school was
discontinued in 1852, 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 S5I
under the name Of the st Louis Medica
College.
The Medical Department of washing
ton jUniyer Iity was created by the cor
poration In 1891, when the ST Louis Med
ical College became a part Of the WASH
ington University In 1899 the missouri
Medical College was merged with thii
department.
Graduates OF the st. Louis Medical Gel
legc number 2,126 of the Missouri Medt
cal College, 1896 and OF the Medios
Department Of Washington University
704
In 1910 the corporation OF the Unit
yerslty, appreciating the value OF tn,