A guide-book of Boston for physicians . until the fall of 1883, onehundred years after the founding of the school, that the Har-vard Medical School moved into its new building on BoylstonStreet. The building cost, with the land, $321,415, and wasthought at the time to be admirably suited to the needs of theinstitution for many years to come. A four-years course of study was made optional in 1879-80,before moving to Boylston Street. In 1892 it was made obliga-tory, with most beneficial results, the number of students notfalling off to any appreciable extent. In 1893 the teaching staffconsisted
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . until the fall of 1883, onehundred years after the founding of the school, that the Har-vard Medical School moved into its new building on BoylstonStreet. The building cost, with the land, $321,415, and wasthought at the time to be admirably suited to the needs of theinstitution for many years to come. A four-years course of study was made optional in 1879-80,before moving to Boylston Street. In 1892 it was made obliga-tory, with most beneficial results, the number of students notfalling off to any appreciable extent. In 1893 the teaching staffconsisted of eighty-six men, exclusive of those connected withthe Summer School. The opening of the Sears Pathological GUIDE TO BOSTON 81 Laboratory at the school, and the pathological laboratories atthe Massachusetts General and City hospitals, greatly enlargedthe facilities for instruction. The Graduate School was developed,and opportunities offered for men to become investigators orspecialists of the highest type. A degree in Arts or Science. HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, 1883-1906 was required for admission to the school after 1902, Harvardbeing the pioneer in this respect, as she was the second medi-cal school in the country to require a four-years course of 1904-5, of the 307 students in the school, 267, or 87 per cent.,were holders of the preliminary degree of or Beginning with the year 1899-1900 a new arrangement ofthe subjects taught in the first two years was adopted. Duringthe first half of the first year the students devote their timesolely to Anatomy and Histology, and during the second halfof the first year to Physiology and Physiological and Pathologi-cal Chemistry. They devote the first half of the second year toPathology and Bacteriology, and the remainder of the secondyear to a variety of subjects which more particularly preparethe student for the clinical work of the third and fourth years. Experience has shown that this logical arrangement of the 82 AMERIC
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