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Medical Trustees, viz. Dr Shippen, Dr Thomas Bond, Dr Cadwalader, Dr Phineas Bond and Dr Redman, and the Medical Professors Dr Morgan and Dr Shippen junior. The preamble to these rules is entitled to a record here ; its sim- ple statement of the situation held a larger promise in it than the Trustees and the Provost could foresee ; they were building more than they knew, and could not realize how large an influence and reputation to their beloved institution they were now preparing for their successors to work and develop. Morgan had founded a Faculty which was to earn for his Alma Mater a National posi- tion as the great instructor in Medical Science for long years to come, and its graduates were to extend the name and fame of the College into every corner of the land in a measure which could never be obtained by any efforts of the earlier Faculty of the College. If Dr. Smith moulded the College into a great teacher, none the less did Dr. Morgan earn the gratitude of suc- ceeding generations in founding therein the higher teaching of the medical sciences which was to be the forerunner, indeed the leader, in every attempt of succeeding times in our country to develop and further the knowledge of the healing art. The question may arise where Dr. Morgan received his impulses which worked out this great movement, and how came it that Philadelphia for so long a period held the preeminence in this science. We shall not be far wrong in tracing it to the seed planted in the Pennsylvania Hospital, which in turn was an out- growth of the College when certain Trustees of the latter con- ceived the bold project in 1752. Dr. Thomas Bond, alike inter- ested in College and Hospital, would welcome the pipils and graduates of the former attending his clinics in the latter, and this interest was shared by his fellow Trustees Phineas Bond, the elder Shippen, Cadwalader, and Redman. If certain College Trustees founded the Hospital, the return gift was made when the latter offered a clinical school to the former's students and alumni to whom the younger Shippen and Morgan were now lec- turing, and the Pennsylvania Hospital must be granted its honorable meed of being the supporter and ally of the new Col- lege Faculty, making an obligation of duty and reverence which