The Prescott daily news., 1915-07-31

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 totaling millions of dollars more, all given by loyal friends of Washing ton University, who recognized an op- portunity to render humanity a 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 it's 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 class the only other American members of which, strictly speaking. are the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the liar yard 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- tion that has for it's 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 College, the two oldest medical schools west of the Mississippi River.
 The Medical Department of Kemper College of St. Louis was organized in 1S4O. In 1S45 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 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 1S42, was char tered al 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 ical College became a 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 Melt cal College, 2,SS6; and of the MeGic. Department of Washington Universaty /, 7O4
 Tn 1910 the corporation of the U,d- versity, appreciating the value of the