Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-10-17

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nue.; also the Sloane Hospital for
Women and the Vanderbilt Clinic.
| The Presbyterian Hospital is now
valued at about seven million dol
lars. including It's endowment
/ The proposed new hospital at
\ Broadway and 165th Street is to
have six hundred beds. which will
| he six patients to each senior stu
dent. as the number in each class
is Ia be limited to one hundred
men. making four hundred in the
entire medical department. This
gives smaller ratio OF beds per
senior student than now obtains
at the University Of Virginia Johns
hopkins also has a smaller ratio
| of beds per student than Virginia.
The reason for this change is
| very interesting and presented in
convincing form by DR.. Henry S.
| Pritchctt. In n letter to President
! Nicholas Murray Butler. Of Column
bia University. he says:
The reason for this can be told
in a few words. q. c. The consoli-
dation OF the Presbyterian Hospital
with tho Medical Department OF Co.
| lumhia and their removal uptown
Medical education and medical
/ science i'm the United states have
suffered serious harm in every way
| by reason OF the fact that the med =
icai school. the hospital (Which Is
! the laboratory Of the clinician) and
the university have not been right
! ly related. To bring this about.
medical school and hospital mus,
be hand in hand and both must be
inspired with university ideals. II
is just this object that is aimed
ut by acquiring now sufficient
tract OF land and associating mcdi-
cal school and hospital under uni
Vcrsity auspices. y. y, Apr. 10.
1915"
This opinion hardly seems to
square with his letter OF June Z.
| 1871. The apparent inconsistency.
no doubt, can be explained bv him.
for II Will he noted that In his let
ter to President Butler he rightly
emphasizes the necessity OF Uni
versity ideals and University aus
piccs in the control OF the Medi-
cal School and Hospital.
1t Will he hard to believe that
the clinical advantages at Richmond
In scattered hospitals and clinics
with the inevitable loss OF time and
energy TO the students. are superior
| to the clinical advantages of New
I
tered. II unification in Il teaching
hospital In close associate with
the University is necessary in the
two latter cities. why is II not ncccs-
! sary in the former? These condi-
| tons require the University locu-
ton.
CD The University Of Missouri is
located at Columbia. Mo-, on. hun
tired and fnrty-four miles from ST.
Louis. Its medical department has
! the first two years at Columbia. At
the recent special session Of the
! Missouri Legislature, which has
| Just adjourned. upon the unanimous
request of the medical faculty and
the Board OF Curators of the Uni
| rcrsity Of Missouri. the Legislature
appropriated two hundred and nifty
thousa nj dollars to build hospital
| at Columbia, In order that the en-
tire four years medical course
Should he completed there. This
will be done just as soon as the
| Hospital is built.
The Board OF C'urators, In recon-
| mending this change. insisted that
IL was necessary to supply country
| doctors for Missouri (of which there
is an admitted shortage every
/ whereof, because medical students
trained in large city, had great
/ Discrimination for country life. and
| such had been the result of ST.
Louis training. The majority report
OF the Commission admits that this
| problem will not lie solved by the
| Richmond location. and there liz no
reason TO believe that the Univcr-
sity location will he less efficient
IN this matter than the Richmond
| location.
On the campus of the University
| of Missouri is the original tomb
| stone which marked the grave OF
! Thomas Jefferson. the iilustrious
! founder OF the University of Nir-
ginia. The University OF Missouri
! has been dominated to a large cx-
tent by University OF Virginia ideals
! and owes much Of it's present promi-
hence in the world of education to
the devoted efforts OF DR.. X. n.
Jesse. long it's president, and a dis
tinsuishcd alumnus OF the Univcr-
| SHY OF Virginia. II would, indeed.
| be shock To the University OF
Missouri 10 now discover that the
! State of Virginia is rcpudiatinE the
ideals OF its great prophet. states
man, philosopher and educator. who
| was nearly a hundred years ahead
OF his time in matters OF education
| and. particularly. professional cdu-
| cation.
CD II is IA familiar fact that the
Medical School OF the great Univer-
SHY OF Wisconsin Is located in the
small city Of Madison; OF the great
University OF Michigan in the small
city OF Ann Arbor; OF the great
University OF Iowa in the small city
of Iowa City. and that at Rochcs.
ter, Mimi. little country town, one
OF the greatest clinics in the world.
the Mayo Clinic. is located.
DIR. Louis II. Wilson. OF the Mayo
Foundation, I'm a letter to Dean
Hough, strongly endorses the Uni
versity location for the medical
school He says In a letter to Dr.
Mcclure: The Mayo Foundation has
! never yet received n mediocre grad
uatc student from the University of
Virginia. This cannot be said con
corning any other school from
which we have received as many
graduate students as we have from
that institution. Every man We
have received from the University
of Virginia seems to me to have
greatly benefited by his University
associations; in other words. to have
thoroughly caught the University