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university president, and bears the same rela- 
tion to the corporation and to the board of 
overseers of the university as do other Har- 
vard faculties. (3) All teachers appointed for 
more than one year are members of the med- 
ical faculty. These teachers are appointed by 
the corporation with the consent of the over- 
seers on the recommendation of a committee 
composed of all full professors in the Medical 
School. (4) There is a dean of the faculty 
of medicine, a dean of the Medical School and 
a dean of the Dental School. The dean of 
the faculty of medicine is responsible for the 
preparation of the general business of the 
faculty. The dean of the schools is respon- 
sible for the individual school, its business 
and its budget. The deans are appointed by 
the corporation without vote on the part of 
the full professors. (5) The various depart- 
ments in the Medical School are organized 
into six divisions, each division made up of 
closely allied subjects. Each division elects a 
chairman, and each member of the component 
departments who has been connected with the 
Medical School for more than one year is 
entitled to a vote. The six chairmen so 
elected, with the dean of the school, constitute 
a faculty council, and the faculty council has 
supervision of matters concerning the cur- 
riculum, the extension of the work of the 
Medical School, ete. To it are referred recom- 
mendations from all the divisions and depart- 
ments for consideration and report to the 
faculty. In the same way matters brought 
up in the faculty touching these points are 
referred to the faculty council for considera- 
tion and report. (6) Assistants and instruc- 
tors reappointed annually are nominated by 
the professors in the various departments, and 
their nomination referred to the division act- 
ing as a committee on these nominations. 
If approved by the division, these nominations 
are sent to the dean, and by him to the cor- 
poration for appointment. (7) There is an 
administrative board of the school appointed 
by the corporation, which with the dean act 
upon matters affecting student discipline, to 
a certain extent financial matters, that is, 
discussions of appropriations and awards of 
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scholarships, ete. This seems a rather cum- 
bersome organization, and is probably in part 
the result of the accretions of time. How- 
ever, under it pretty nearly every one con- 
nected with the Medical School has an oppor- 
tunity in one place or another to freely ex- 
press his views on matters concerning the 
policy of the Medical School, and in some way 
to record them by vote. At the same time those 
holding more responsible positions are given 
an opportunity to have a_ proportionately 
larger influence on Medical School matters. 
So far as the general outline of your plan 
is concerned, I should express approval. It 
may interest you if I tell you something of 
what we have done here in the Medical School 
within the last two years as the result of an 
agitation initiated about seven years ago. 
Two years ago the present organization was 
adopted, and it works exceedingly well. The 
departments of the school—the department 
means all those which give a separate exam- 
ination, or which have an assistant or full 
professor at its head—were organized in divi- 
sions of allied subjects. There were six such 
divisions, lettered A, B,C, D, Eand F. Divi- 
sion A includes the departments of anatomy, 
comparative anatomy and the Warren Mu- 
seum. Division B includes physiology, com- 
parative physiology, biological chemistry, ma- 
teria medica and therapeutics. Division C 
includes pathology, comparative pathology, 
bacteriology, preventive medicine and hygiene, 
neuropathology. Division D includes theory 
and practise, clinical medicine and surgery, 
psychiatry, pediatrics. Division E includes 
surgery, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics, gynx- 
cology. Division F, dermatology, syphilis, 
ophthalmology, otology, laryngology. Each 
division consists of all members of the con- 
stituent departments. Those entitled to a 
vote in the division are members of the fac- 
ulty, instructors and assistants who have 
served three years or more. Each division 
elects its own chairman and a secretary, and 
matters of interest to any member of the divi- 
sion are brought up for discussion at meetings 
held for the purpose. The chairmen are 
