MEDICAL EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA. 



The number and character of the educational institu- 

 tions of a country furnish the most reliable gauge with 

 which to estimate the degree of intelligence of its people 

 and the virtues of its government. Measured by this 

 scale, young Australia compares well with America and 

 the countries of the world. New countries, like new 

 cities, have the great advantage of profiting by the ex- 

 perience of the past, placing them in a position to select 

 what has been found most useful and practical and to 

 eliminate what has been proved objectionable by the 

 test of experience. The educational institutions of the 

 old world and some of our own have been undergoing 

 constant changes in the construction of buildings and 

 methods of teaching, in order to keep pace with the 

 rapid strides of progress and spirit of investigation and 

 original research which characterize the present age. 

 Scrutinized in the light of the beginning of the twen- 

 tieth centur}\ many of the famous, venerable, moss-cov- 

 ered universities of the old as well as the new world 

 appear like a patched garment when contrasted with the 

 new, vigorous institutions of learning founded, organ- 

 ized and. managed in accordance with the most recent 

 requirements. Viewed from an educational standpoint, 

 Australia has reason to take pride in what she has ac- 

 complished. The government of this country has been 

 liberal in responding to the educational needs of its 

 slowly growing and now almost stationary population. 

 Its public schools are within easy reach of every child, 

 not only in its cities and villages, but wherever a small 

 settlement is found in the mountain forests and arid 

 plains. It has its grammar and high schools, colleges 

 and universities, which meet all the necessities of a 



