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" How not to be sick," by Dr. John N. Hurty ; " Bovine tuberculosis 

 and its relation to public health," by Dr. Mazyck P. Ravenel; "The 

 influence of disease on civilization," by Dr. Victor C. Vaughan; 

 "Ventilation of schoolrooms and bedrooms," by Dr. William A. 

 Evans; "Milk," also by Dr. Evans. 



Buildings and general equipment. Dispensary for Syracuse 

 Medical College. It is reported that the trustees of Syracuse Uni- 

 versity have decided to erect a teaching dispensary near the medical 

 College, to cost about $75,000. 



Peter Beut Brigham Hospital. It is expected that the Peter 

 Bent Brigham Hospital, now under construction on land adjoining 

 the Harvard Medical School, will be completed in October, 191 2. 

 Dr. Henry A. Christian, retiring dean of Harvard Medical School, 

 will be physician-in-chief ; Dr. Harvey Cushing, of Johns Hopkins 

 Medical School, surgeon-in-chief ; and Dr. H. B. Howard, Super- 

 intendent. 



Graduate school of medicine at Harvard. About a year ago a 

 graduate school of medicine was established as a department of 

 Harvard University and placed under the control of the faculty of 

 medicine. Recently Dr. Horace D. Arnold was elected Dean. The 

 new feature of this school is not the giving of graduate Instruction 

 in medicine, since that has been encouraged by Harvard Medical 

 School for a number of years. The action taken is a recognition 

 that graduate Instruction was important enough to justify the estab- 

 lishment of a separate department of the university and that this 

 department should be developed along the same high plane as that 

 of the other departments. With the rapid improvement that the 

 undergraduate medical schools of this country have been expe- 

 riencing, it is highly important that the graduate schools undergo 

 an even greater development so that medical graduates will have 

 opportunity for post-graduate Instruction in medicine at least as 

 thorough and as scientific as that furnished in the best undergrad- 

 uate medical schools. Furthermore, it is probably a fact that grad- 

 uate medical instruction in this country, generally speaking, has 

 been even more neglected than undergraduate instruction, and there 

 is much greater need of improvement. The creation of this new 

 department at Harvard University, therefore, is a step in the right 

 direction. 



