1909] A Valuable Institution 



surgeons, William Ophiils (the present dean) in 

 Pathology, Frank E. Blaisdell in Applied Anatomy, 

 and William F. Cheney in General Medicine. 



To fill remaining chairs I had recourse to Eastern 

 institutions. For Anatomy we fortunately secured 

 Arthur W. Meyer, a former student of Mall at the 

 Hopkins, then at Northwestern University. Among 

 others thus selected was Dr. Hans Zinsser from Co- 

 lumbia, to which institution he afterward returned as 

 professor of Bacteriology. Zinsser is one of the most 

 brilliant teachers we ever had, and a universal favor- 

 ite with all 



The school once fairly going, it commanded respect 

 and confidence in every quarter and soon had all the 

 students it could properly accommodate, so that 

 recently it has been found necessary to limit attend- 

 ance in medicine as in other departments of the Uni- 

 versity. In 1912, when the handsome and commo- Dedication 

 dious library building was completed, I gave the 

 address of dedication, a layman's review of the 

 progress of medical science during the thirty-seven 

 years since I had myself received a degree in medi- 

 cine. 1 



1 See Vol. I, Chapter vi, pages 147-149. 



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