The Days of a Man 1909 



received from the former property amounting to over 

 a million dollars. But the founder himself con- 

 cluded that an independent school could not hold its 

 own, and he once discussed with me a proposition to 

 transfer the whole to Stanford University. After his 

 death, therefore, the trustees of the Cooper made a 

 definite offer to deed it to Stanford, with the sole pro- 

 vision that both plant and endowment should be used 

 for medical instruction. Accordingly, in the spring of 

 1909, the College passed out of existence, all its hold- 

 ings, including Lane Hospital, being turned over to us. 

 I now proceeded to organize a medical school on 

 the basis I had contemplated. The three years of 

 Courses preliminary university work required for entrance 

 of study include Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, and Biology, 

 with other elective subjects. Beginning with the 

 fourth year, Physiological Chemistry, Human Anat- 

 omy, and Bacteriology are carried on for a year and a 

 half in certain campus buildings originally erected as 

 an annex to the Museum. At the end of that period 

 students are transferred to San Francisco for two and 

 a half years of clinical study, followed by one interne 

 year at the Lane. 



Faculty During the first year Dr. Stiliman served as acting 

 dean until the return from Europe of Dr. Wilbur, 

 whose extensive studies had given him a firm grasp on 

 the theory and practice of medical education and on 

 the moral issues involved in sound teaching. From 

 the former Cooper faculty, three of the older men, 

 soon to retire as emeritus, were appointed to the new 

 staff; these were Adolf Barkan, Henry Gibbons, and 

 Joseph O. Hirschfelder, all men of special eminence. 

 We chose also five of their colleagues Stanley Still- 

 man and Emmet Rixford, both recognized as leading 



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