Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . re or since met within the walls ofany college. Rush was but twenty-four : Kuhn, twenty-eight ; Shippen, thirty-three, and Morgan, the patriarchof the assembly, thirtj-four. The thouf^lits of youth arc long, long tlioughts,and these boyish professors, planning far l^eyond anypresent possibility, lived to see their dearest wishesfulfilled, and the college, to which the vigor and bestenergy of their early manhood had been given, unrivaledin its accomplishment, and sought by students fromevery state in the Union. Th
Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations . re or since met within the walls ofany college. Rush was but twenty-four : Kuhn, twenty-eight ; Shippen, thirty-three, and Morgan, the patriarchof the assembly, thirtj-four. The thouf^lits of youth arc long, long tlioughts,and these boyish professors, planning far l^eyond anypresent possibility, lived to see their dearest wishesfulfilled, and the college, to which the vigor and bestenergy of their early manhood had been given, unrivaledin its accomplishment, and sought by students fromevery state in the Union. The war of the Revolution jiroved a serious check tothe steady growth of the school. During the occupa-ti(m of the city by the British all instruction was sus-pended, and some of tlie professors took their places asmedical otficers in the army. In 1770 tlie college charterwas abrogated, its officers removed and its propertytransferred to a new organization, the University ofthe State of Pennsylvania, which received nuuli moreextended educational i)rivileges and larger HAHNEMANN COLLEGE. MEDICAL EDUCATION. 383 For twelve years the two schools gave indepeiulentcourses of instruction, but at the cud (»( (hat time theyagreed to sink ditlerences and unite. At the same tinu,following the precedent of the Iniversity of Edinhur-:,the degree of B. M. was dropped and the time of studylin\ited to two courses in the institution, and thnn under some respectable practitioner. Up to 1810, Obstetrics had no chair, but was taughtin connection with anatomy. Dr. T. C. James was regular professor. Another novelty came in at thesame time, being applied to the pn liminary examina-tion of the student, which took place through a screen,only the dean knowing the applicants name. Thisstructure, known as The Green Box, and lookedupon with much the sanu> terror as that inspired bya hidden corner in the ln(iuisition, was maintained forten years, and tlie name still cU
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