CHAPTER XXXVI. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. CONTENTS.-Notes on the statistics-State aid to medical colleges-Gifts and bequests-Require ments for practice of medicine, law, dentistry-Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research-Statistics. The number of theological schools in 1902 was 148, with an attendance of 7,343 students. This is a decrease of 224 students from the number of the previous year, while law students increased 270 in number, rising from 13,642 to 13,912. In 1894 the number of students in law was smaller than the number in theology, while in 1902 there were nearly twice as many in law. For five successive years there has been a decrease in the number of theological students. During the same time the numbers in law, medicine, and dentistry have been constantly increasing. The value of grounds and buildings of theological schools is nearly $16,000,000, and endowment funds over $23,000,000. The number of medical schools was 154, with 26,821 students, a difference of only 64 over the number of the previous year, The number of homeopathic students decreased by 261, while the number in regular schools increased 248, and in eclectic and physiomedical 77. Although there was an increase in the number of medical students during the year, there was a decrease of 407 in the number of graduates. The smaller number of graduates is due to the lengthened course of study, the effect of which is probably not yet fully felt. In law and theology about one-fourth of the students graduated, but in medicine less than one-fifth. In dentistry the number of students continues to increase, there being 8,420, or 112 more than in 1901. In pharmacy the number is stationary, 4,427, or 2 less than in 1901. In veterinary medicine there were 576 students. TABLE 1.—General summary of statistics of professional schools for 1902. STATE AID TO MEDICAL COLLEGES. Among the inquiries made of medical schools was one as to the income received from State or municipal appropriations. The information received is here given: University of California, Medical Department, San Francisco.-$9,370 received. State University of Iowa, Iowa City.-Supported by the State. University of Kansas, School of Medicine, Laurence.-All salaries and expenses paid by State appropriations. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.—The medical department is a part of the university, and separate accounts are not kept. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.—Our fees are paid into the general university fund and all our expenses paid by the State. University of Missouri, Columbia.-It is impossible to separate funds that support the medical department from general university funds. Salaries are paid from university funds. In many of the subjects medical students work in the same classes and laboratories with academic students. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.-City and State appropriations to the college hospital, $25,375. University of Texas, School of Medicine, Galveston.—$40,000. University of Virginia, Charlottesville.-Not separated from the other schools of the university. Medical College of Virginia, Richmond.-$5,850. Theology: TABLE 2.-Comparative statistics of professional and allied schools. Schools Students Graduates. Medicine (all classes): Schools 3,524 154 26, 821 Graduates.. Medicine (regular): 5,069 Schools 65 72 Graduates. 2, 082 2,673 54 2,696 56 8,420 2,288 759 Pacific Theological Seminary, Berkeley, Cal.-Received from Edwin T. Earl, of Los Angeles, $50,000 to endow special lectureship for distinguished Christian scholars, on themes of their own selection. |