1; Homer, 1; Xenophon, 1; Intermediate German or French, 1; Elmentary Spanish or Elementary Scandinavian, 1; Greek and Roman History, 1; Medieval and Modern History, 1; English History, 1; Botany and Zoölogy, 1; or Biology, 1; Chemistry, 1; Physics, 1; Physiography, ; Physiology, ; (no credit shall be given for science courses which do not include laboratory work;) Agriculture, 1; Drawing, 1; Manual Training, 1; Music, 1; Domestic Science, 1.

It will be noted in the table given in the appendix that medical colleges are even now beginning to require one or more years of college work, and that the leading medical colleges are requiring four years of such work.

The preliminary college year should include for a period of thirty-two weeks 2 recitation or lecture periods and 2 laboratory periods in Physics; the same in Chemistry; 2 recitation periods and 2 laboratory periods or 3 recitation periods and 1 laboratory period in Biology; and 3 or 4 recitation periods per week in advanced French or German.

Work is to be accepted only if taken in a standard college and not as a postgraduate course in a high school. If given as a premedical year in a medical college, it must be up to the standards set by approved colleges. It is advised that a year in a college of dentistry or pharmacy shall not be considered as equivalent to a year's work in a standard college, and that no credit shall be given for a course in which a student's record for attendance for the full year is below 80 per cent., but that graduates of regular colleges who have not done the work in these prescribed subjects, may be permitted to have until the opening of the second year in the medical college for removing their conditions.

The standards of the American Medical Association prescribe that a medical college must have at least six professors, giving their entire time to medical work, and an executive officer who has sufficient authority to carry out fair ideals of medical education; that it has a standard of admission for students equivalent to those given in this chapter; that it offers a full four-years' course of instruction of thirty-two weeks each, and that it requires of the student at least thirty hours of work per week.

It is also prescribed that the printed course of study should be carefully followed and should include two years of laboratory work under the direction of experienced teachers who are graduates of reputable medical schools in properly and fully equipped laboratories in anatomy, histology, embryology, physiology, chemistry, bacteriology, pathology, pharmacology, therapeutics and clinical diagnosis; that there should be two years of clinical work in hospitals and dispensaries with courses in internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, laryngology, rhinology, ophthalmology, otology, dermatology, hygiene and medical jurisprudence.

It is well for those who are selecting a medical college to study carefully the catalogues of the colleges which they are considering to see whether the college is able to offer them the facilities which this committee considers essential.

A college should own and control a hospital in which the students may come into contact with patients under the supervision of their teachers, and such a hospital in colleges having a hundred students should have not less. than two hundred patients a day; and there should be ample accommodations for treating children's diseases,

Photography from Underwood & Underwood DISSECTING ROOM, MARYLAND UNIVERSITY

contagious diseases and nervous and mental disorders, and for handling maternity cases, and at least thirty autopsies a year, together with facilities for handling out-patients.

It is also recommended that an acceptable college should have a fully equipped library, in properly furnished quarters, with a librarian in charge, and have a working museum with models and specimens duly classified and labelled; that there should be an ample supply of dissecting material and an experimental laboratory with a supply of live animals and adequate facilities for housing these animals.

As one reads over these specifications and notes that mention is made of the importance of having in a medical school X-ray apparatus, stethoscopes, projectoscopes and supplies of anatomical charts and manikins, he is forced to the assumption that at the time of making this report there must have been institutions lacking in these essentials. This is not surprising when one considers that many medical colleges have been organized by practitioners who hoped that by teaching they could add somewhat to the incomes which they were getting as practitioners. One would expect to find in this report recommendations that a medical college should have a certain minimum number of heads of departments whose salaries are large enough to permit them to give all their time to teaching and investigation; and that for professional training in a field which has such an extensive literature as medicine, it should be accepted without mention that a school should not only have a complete library in charge of a trained librarian and that mention should be made of courses of special training in the use of these libraries.