Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-30
HOPES REVIVED
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made a strong plea for the House to
act favorably toward taking over the
school from Bowdoin College and es-
tablishing it as State institution.
For the past 100 years Bowdoin
College has been assuming the re-
sponsibility of the State of Maine in
conducting this school and now is
the time for the State to step in and
do something toward it's share. l
am not a member of the medical
profession" said Mr.. Hussey, nor
am a resident of Portland, where it
is generally understood this institu-
ton would be located under State
control, so I have no personal inter-
est in the matter except that inter-
est have in Maine as State. The
only way to overcome the lamentable
shortage in physicians is for the
State to provide new doctors and the
way to do it is to take over the es-
tablishment of the Maine Medical
School and conduct it. Bowdoin
must.
1T must not be thought that Bow
dom is not interested in this PROPOSE
ton simply that it has become neces-
sary for her to give up the medical
school and devote her entire energies
to the arts and sciences, for such a
! thought is not true. Not only is Bow
doin interested in moral manner,
but she is decidedly so in material
way, for she has offered to the State
buildings, equipment and endow-
ments for the establishment of the
Maine Medical School Buildings To-
! Gated in Portland, the logical location
for the school, valued at more than
500, 900, is offered to the State by the
| college.
| Discussing the matter of the en-
, dowment for the school, Mr.. Hussey
! said that he desired to be fair and
would say that, while the trustees of
Bowdoin We're willing to turn it over
it would be necessary to secure an
opinion of the supreme court before
| it could be done. However, so able
an authority as Hon. Barrett Potter
of Brunswick had expressed the
opinion that it could be done. He
then recited the record of the Bow
doin Medical School for the past
hundred years; how it had graduated
1900 students of whom 500 We're now
living in the State and $50 of them
located in the small communities of
Maine During the past four years
no graduate of the school had failed
to pass any examination wherever
taken.
! McIlhcron of Lewiston moved to
substitute the bill for the ought not
to pass report of the committee.
| Gardiner Of Gardiner briefly re-
viewed the history of the measure
and expressed the belief that, today,
the only thing to do was to enact the
bill establishing the school.
! Gerrsh of Lisbon said that for 80
, years Bowdoin college conducted the
. Medical School without a deficit and
that during the past 10 years the
deficit had not exceeded $4,000 in any
one year. The greatest cost of oper-
alton of the school had been $1,000,
which was last year, when prices
were at the peak.
That the House might understand
what it would cost to conduct this
school he said the plans called for
eight full time teachers at a total an
nual cost of $4,000. four full time
assistants at cost of $4,000 yearly,
land other teachers to cost $4,000 an
nually, a total of $4,000 year. He
estimated the over head EXPENSE of
the school at $4,000, with an addi-
tional cost Of $4,000 for equipment
the first year and $4,000 annually
thereafter.
At this time there were IS students,
paving an annual tuition of $3.50 each.
or total of $4,000. Under the new
conditions the students would in
crease, he believed, so per cent. which
would give an annual income from
tuition of $4,000, which would bring
the net cost of maintenance of the
school to $4,000 This could not in
crease.
Rep. Moody of York and Wiseman