PENNSYLVANIA
297
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $18,900 (estimated).
Laboratory facilities: These are utterly wretched. They comprise a laboratory for histology, in which a small centrifuge is the only visible object of interest; a small laboratory for elementary chemistry in a dark cellar; and an intolerably foul dissecting-room in a dark building, once a stable. If there is any provision for pathology, physiology, or bacteriology, any books, or museum, or other teaching accessories except a few crude drawings, a model, and a skeleton, all was successfully concealed. Three separate class-rooms are provided,—containing necessary furniture only.
Clinical facilities: The infirmary, the address of which is not given in the catalogue, is some blocks distant; it contains three beds and has, it is claimed, 200 patients who come twice or thrice weekly for treatment. The catalogue announces that its students have the "privilege of witnessing operations at the University Hospital, Jefferson Hospital, etc." This is not the case. These students are intruders, without rights or privileges of any description whatsoever.
Date of visit: January, 1910.
PITTSBURGH: Population, 570,065.
(8) University of Pittsburgh, Medical Department. Organized 1886; affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in 1892, it became an organic department thereof in 1909.
Entrance requirement: Four-year high school education or its equivalent.
Attendance: 815.
Teaching staff: 105, of whom 48 are professors, 60 of other grade. Five instructors give their entire time to the school. There is one research assistant.
Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $48,500.
Laboratory facilities: The school has within a year undergone a complete transformation. A more thorough piece of house-cleaning within so short a period is hardly credible. A year ago, before the University of Pittsburgh obtained control, the so-called laboratories were dirty and disorderly beyond description. Since the present management took hold last fall, the admission of students has been much more carefully supervised; the building has been put in excellent condition; laboratories for chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, and pathology have been remodeled and equipped with modern apparatus for both teaching and research; foreign and domestic periodicals have been subscribed for; a study-room in good order has been instituted in place of the lounging-room where last year "four dozen wooden chairs were broken." Whole-time instructors of modern training and ideals have been secured. This is the more remarkable, as only fees have been available. Despite the necessary defects of schools relying wholly on fees, the experience of this
