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ical School in St. Louis were dedicated. On 

 the morning of the 29th exercises were held 

 in the Assembly Hall of the school at which 

 the keys of the buildings were formally pre- 

 sented to the acting chancellor of the univer- 

 sity by the architect. The visiting delegates 

 were then presented to the chancellor and 

 president of the corporation. The delegates 

 were as follows : 

 Harvard University: President Abbott Lawrence 



Lowell. 

 Yale University: Dean George Blumer. 

 University of Pennsylvania : Dean William Pepper. 

 Brown University: Mr. Augustus Levi Abbott. 

 University of Pittsburgh: Dean Thomas Shaw 



Arbuthnot. 

 St. Louis University: Dean Hanau Wolf Loeb. 

 Medical Corps of the United States Army: Cap- 

 tain Thomas Dupuy Woodson. 

 Western Reserve University: Dean Carl August 



Hamann. 

 Lafayette College: President John Henry Mac- 



Cracken. 

 Tulane University of Louisiana: Professor Ru- 

 dolph Matas. 

 St. Louis Medical Society: Dr. Robert Emmet 



Kane. 

 Knox College: President MacClelland. 

 University of Michigan: Professor Frederick 



George Novy. 

 University of Missouri: Acting-Dean Guy Lincoln 



Noyes. 

 University of Bellevue Hospital Medical College: 



Vice-Dean Samuel Albertus Brown. 

 New York Academy of Medicine: Dr. Edward 



DLx Pisher. 

 Missouri State Medical Association: Dr. Frank 



Joseph Lutz. 

 The University of Edinburgh: Professor Lindsay 



Stephan Milne, University of Kansas. 

 Central Wesleyan College: President Otto Edward 



Kriege, Professor Albert William Ebeling. 

 Detroit College of Medicine and Surgery: Dean 

 B. R. Shurley, Professor Charles Godwin Jen- 

 nings. 

 Purdue University: Professor Oliver Perkins 



Terry. 

 University of Minnesota: Professor James Ed- 

 ward Moore. 

 Drury College: President James Gilmer Mc- 

 Murtry. 



University of Cincinnati: Professor John Ernest 



Greiwe, Dr. Christian Holmes. 

 Johns Hopkins University: Professor Theodore 



Missouri Valley College: Mr. Alphonzo Chase 



Stewart. 

 Missouri Botanical Garden: Professor George 



Thomas Moore. 

 Leland Stanford Junior University: Dr. Harold 



Phillip Kuhn. 

 Dennison University: Dr. E. B. Packer. 

 University of Kansas: Professor John Sundwall. 

 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: Dr. 



Simon Flexner. 

 Memorial Institute for Infectious Diseases and 



Rush Medical College: Dr. James Bryan Her- 



rick. 

 American College of Surgeons: Dr. Major Gabriel 



Seelig. 

 University of Illinois: Dr. Dean D. K. A. Steele, 



Professor A. C. Eycleshymer. 



An address was then made by Dean Opie, of 

 the Medical School, who outlined the early 

 history and reorganization of the school and 

 the ideals which it represents. He was fol- 

 lowed by Dr. William H. Welch, of Johns 

 Hopkins, who spoke of the development of 

 clinical teaching in American miedical educa- 

 tion and of the success which had attended 

 the introduction of full-time clinical teaching 

 at Johns Hopkins, and which is under con- 

 sideration at Washington University. 



After-luncheon addresses were made on the 

 lawn of the medical school by President Lowell, 

 of Harvard, and President Vincent, of the 

 University of Minnesota. Dr. Lowell spoke 

 on the importance of preventive medicine as a 

 public service, and of the necessity of a broad 

 general education as a basis for the training 

 of the physician. Dr. Vincent spoke of the 

 position graduate studies should hold in med- 

 ical education. Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, presi- 

 dent of the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad- 

 vancement of Teaching, the third essayist of 

 the afternoon, was unable to be present and 

 his paper was read by Professor Lowes, of the 

 college faculty. His paper was on " Medical 

 Education in Missouri." After the addresses 

 the guests of the university were entertained 

 at a garden party. 



