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The school opened with the Principal as the only 
whole-time officer. Most of the teaching was done 
by a staff of part-time lecturers, drawn from the 
Government medical service or from private practi- 
tioners. A Professorship of Physiology was founded 
in 1913, and a Professor of Anatomy in 1920. In 
1921 chairs in Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Surgery, 
Clinical Surgery and Midwifery were instituted. 
At the start, the school was housed* in some dis- 
carded hospital buildings. A residential hostel was 
completed in 1916, and a second hostel is now under 
construction. For several years, the work has been 
cramped by inadequate accommodation, but new 
buildings will be finished in two or three years. 
They will contain laboratories and lecture rooms 
for two hundred and fifty students. In addition 
there will be accommodation for post-graduate study 
and research. A large space has been allotted to 
the library, and it is hoped, when additional accom- 
modation is available, this department of the College 
will be of service to the medical community of 
Malaya. 
(b). Raffles’ College. 
In 1918 a Committee appointed by Government to 
advise on a scheme to celebrate the Centenary of 
Singapore submitted as the most suitable memorial 
the advancement of education with a view to laying 
in course of time the foundations of a Univer- 
sity. Another special Committee recommended the 
establishment of a residential College for higher 
education to be called “ Raffles College ” and to be 
the nucleus of a future University. Later the 
Legislative Council agreed that provided $2,000,000 
were subscribed by the public of Malaya and the 
