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the medical school and the school of engineering were 

 opened in 1883, and the law school was opened in 1890. 

 (Figure 26). The teaching staff of the university has 

 gradually increased from 3 professors and 2 lecturers in 

 1854 to 14 professors and 34 lecturers in 1899, having 

 under their care 519 students. The university owes a 

 great deal to private benefactions. The total sum from 

 this source at the close of 1899 was over $2,000,000. 



The university building is a magnificent solid stone 

 structure in Gothic style, occupying the summit of a 

 high hill and surrounded by 132 acres of land. The 

 Prince Alfred Hospital is located on the same grounds. 

 A large, fine brick building for the library is now in 

 process of construction. The present chancellor of the 

 university is Sir Normand MacLaurin. a distinguished 

 Sydney practitioner of medicine. I will always remem- 

 ber with pleasure and gratitude the hours I spent with 

 the chancellor in visiting the university, inspecting its 

 great hall, library, rich museum and the medical school. 

 Sir Normand has shown great tact and executive ability 

 in the management of this young but vigorous institu- 

 tion, but has not lost his interest in medicine and he 

 takes a just pride in the medical school on which he 

 showers his fostering care. The university has now an 

 attendance of about 700, of whom 250 are medical 

 students. Professor Stuart is the heart and soul of the 

 medical school and its present dean. 



The medical school is the gem among all the univer- 

 sity buildings. (Fig. 32.) It owes its origin largely to 

 the indefatigable efforts of Dr. H. G. Douglass, Sir 

 Charles Nicholson, Mr. Wentworth, Prof. John Smith 

 and Dr. Richard Greenup. The first medical school com- 

 menced its work in 1883 in a four-room cottage. (See 

 Figure 27.) The palatial new college building was com- 

 pleted in 1890 at a cost of $400,000, one of the finest 

 buildings of its kind in the world. It is a massive stone 

 building in imitation of the university building, with 

 tile floors throughout and inner finishing seldom seen 



