New Britain herald., 1927-07-08
'ECLECnCS TAKE
 STAND IN TRIAL
Tell of Their Medical Quahfca.
 tionS and Schooling

New Haven. July 8 CP-While a student for three years at Middle sex College of Physicians and Sur aeons at Cambridge. Mass. Dr. Will liam Levy of Hartford testified to- day in the hearing of his. and six other appeals from the revocation of licenses to practice in Connecticut, he failed in one subject his fresh- man year. two his sophomore year and one his junior year.
 . Made Up Failures
 In each case he made up his fail- ures by reexamination before the opening of the next college year. studying during the summer. He was unable to remember. however. in what subjects he failed, or the full list of the subjects he took each year.
 When Dr. Levy returned to the stand today he was cross-examined by Attorney A. B. O'Keefe of West Haven. The appellant has been rep resenting himself, and Attorney O'Keefe offered last night, with the courts permission. to aid him in pre- senting his case.
 With Drs. Lerner and Lilienthal of Bridgeport. Campo of Stamford, Mower of Hartford and others, Dr. Levy left Middlesex for St. Louis college after commencing the work of his senior year at the Cambridge institution, he said because of the rumor testified to by Drs. Camp and Lerner that Middlesex was to be closed
 In response to questions of Spe- cial Attorney General James w.. Carpenter. Dr. Levy testified to talk ing number of subjects at Middle sex listed in the catalog of that col lege as given in the senior year. He said he took his senior year at St. Louis college.
 Although he made applications to the Massachusetts board while an interne in the Maiden. Mass. hos pital, he did not take the examina- tion until about the time of the grand jury investigation in 1923 of this state.
 Credentials from Middlesex and original high and preparatory school credits, he said, were not available because lost by the St. Louis college. He was also unable to locate his Connecticut license and said he had no certificate of service from his in terneship at the Maiden hospital. al. though he produced certificate al- lowing him to practice medicine as an interne there and letter invit- ing him to go there as an interne. He did not attend the commence ment exercises at St. Louis college, May IS, 1921, when his class was graduated, because of scarcity of funds and, more important, a head ache. he said.
 Dr. Feldman Testifles
 Dr. William H. Feldman of Hart ford, said he attended the St. Louis college one year. 1917-1S. receiving his degree and diploma there. Be- fore coming to Connecticut in 1921 to take the eclectic board examina- ton he wrote to Dr. James E. Hair of Bridgeport. secretary of the board. Dr. Kemp under whom Dr. Feldman said he studied medicine, was not listed as faculty member in the college 'catalog until two years after the appellants gradua- tion. At St. Louis he said he studied only the allopathic, or regular sys- rein of practicing medicine.
 His only pr@medical credential, he said. was Blair certificate" from Illinois, mentioned on his ap- piication to the Connecticut board as education in the Illinois public schools. The application also men, toned an Indiana examiners certi- ficate.
 Dr. Feldman explained that he signed the application in blank and that it was then filled in by Dr.