A guide-book of Boston for physicians . tal, and since this time the clinicalfacilities, although most ample, have been spread about inmany hospitals at a considerable distance from the schoolbuilding. All this is to be changed at the Longwood Avenuelocation, and the great need of medical education is to be metby a conjunction of laboratories with clinical advantages. Thepresent faculty of medicine consists of thirty-four members, andin addition there are one hundred and eight instructors, lectur-ers, and assistants. The graduate department provides 133 dif-ferent courses, and last summer ther
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . tal, and since this time the clinicalfacilities, although most ample, have been spread about inmany hospitals at a considerable distance from the schoolbuilding. All this is to be changed at the Longwood Avenuelocation, and the great need of medical education is to be metby a conjunction of laboratories with clinical advantages. Thepresent faculty of medicine consists of thirty-four members, andin addition there are one hundred and eight instructors, lectur-ers, and assistants. The graduate department provides 133 dif-ferent courses, and last summer there were given 123 coursesin the Summer School to 173 students. There are at present inthe school 333 students, divided as follows: courses for gradu-ates, 6l; fourth class, 66; third class, 55; second class, 72; firstclass, 79- The New School on Longwood Avenue The scheme for the expansion and development of the medi-cal school was conceived several years ago, and owres its suc-cess in a large measure to the untiring efforts of Henry ..a K- GUIDE TO BOSTON 83 Bowditch and J. Collins Warren, who educated the membersof the medical profession to demand, and the public to pro-vide, the means for the accomplishment of this object, sofraught with promise to the cause of medical education. In 1900 a Committee of the Faculty of the Medical Schoolsecured a parcel of land on Longwood Avenue, on the outskirtsof Boston, near the Brookline line, as the site for the new medi-cal school. The land was held in trust by twenty public-spiritedcitizens of Boston and vicinity, who subscribed $565,000 forthe purpose. Provisional plans for five buildings were made by Shepley,Rutan and Coolidge, architects, and in March, 1901, Henry and J. Collins Warren submitted the plans toJ. Pierpont Morgan. He agreed to erect the central administra-tion pavilion and two others, in memory of his father, JuniusSpencer Morgan. Through W. B. Coley, of New York, an alum-nus of the school, John D. Rockefe
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