ery Bell Academy and a medical college — comprising hundii 

 students and scores of instructors. Under its present Chancellor, 

 ex-Governor James D. Porter, one of the most distinguished pub- 

 lic men whom the South possesses to-day, the history of its 

 fulness is entering upon a new and still more glorious chapter. 



VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 



The excellent work of the Medical Department will be 

 readily understood from the subjoined extract from the address 

 of Chancellor Porter delivered at the Fifty-third Commencement 

 of this College on March 31, 1904. He said: 



"In the year 1849 the Trustees provided a Medical Depart- 

 ment for the University of Nashville. In twelve months it was 

 the most prosperous of the medical schools of the South, with 



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