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in the country. These students were examined, only those who passed being accepted; but the fact that, with the teaching they have had, they can pass is conclusive as to the nature of the examination.
Attendance: 517, about 60 per cent from Illinois.
Teaching staff: 198, of whom 42 are professors, 156 of other grade.
Resources available for maintenance: The institution is practically dependent on its fees, amounting to $80,155 (estimated), and has a large floating debt.
Laboratory facilities: The school has the following laboratories: physiology, well equipped; pharmacology and chemistry, mediocre; anatomy, pathology, and bacteriology, adequate. There are full-time professors of anatomy and physiology, without skilled assistants or helpers. Their work is limited to routine. The school has a large library.
Clinical facilities: For these the school relies on the Cook County Hospital, on the staff of which it holds 11 appointments, and on a number of other institutions to which its students are admitted under the usual limitations. Prominent among these is the so-called "University Hospital," which may be cited as a typical instance of the misleading character of catalogue representations. The title itself is a misnomer; for the hospital is a university hospital not in the sense that large teaching advantages exist for the benefit of the university, but only in the sense that to the existing opportunities, rejected as they are, students from other schools are not admitted at all. The catalogue states that "it contains one hundred beds, and its clinical advantages are used exclusively for the students of this college." Not, however, the "clinical advantages" of the "one hundred beds," for 52 of them are private. Its "clinical advantages" shrink on investigation to three weekly amphitheater clinics of slight pedagogic value and four ward clinics in obstetrics,—each of the latter attended by some 12 or 14 students in a ward containing 15 beds. Supplementary connections give access to large surgical clinics.
The dispensary service is in general adequate.
Dates of visit: April, 1909; December, 1909.
(4) Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. Organized 1901, and since 1902 the medical department of Valparaiso (Indiana) University; up to 1905 an eclectic institution.
Entrance requirement: A high school education or its equivalent, interpreted to include anything that the state board will accept.
Attendance: The school had an enrolment of 315 in 1907–8, and of 366 in 1908–9, the senior class of the former year numbering 95, the freshman 69. This disproportion is largely due to the fact that advanced standing has been indiscriminately granted to students who had previously attended low-grade institutions, some of
