"As regards our medical college, I ought to have told you that we
are incorporated in the State of Illinois. Our medical school is
really legally located in Chicago. We always have one or more classes
down there for dissection, clinical work, and doing dispensary and
missionary work in the city. Our school is officially recognised. Our
diplomas are recognised in this country and in most foreign countries;
our diplomas are recognised, in fact, in all countries which recognise
American diplomas. The work done in our school is recognised by the
best schools. Jefferson accepts students from our third year into
their fourth, the graduating year, without examination. Kings College
in Kingston, Canada, does the same; also Trinity College in Toronto,
and other leading schools in this country. Our College is a member
of the American Medical Association along with Bellevue, University
of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Rush Medical College, and
other leading schools. We have placed our standard high so that no
one could object to the reform features of our work on account of
incompetency. Our students are admitted to practice in New York,
having passed the examinations of the State Board. Our best reason
for believing that our diplomas are recognised everywhere is because
of students from the College having passed the examinations in
nearly every State. One of our students recently graduated from the
University of Dublin after having spent a year there, as they require
five years instead of four years as with us.
"Your experiments are surpassingly interesting. Your performance
with Dr. Anderson was phenomenal. I confess you are a physiological
puzzle. If chewing accomplishes these wonderful things for you, it
is certainly worth the while. I am training myself from day to day
to masticate my food more and more thoroughly and I confess there is
greater good in it than I ever imagined.
"I am sending you a little box of foods that I think you will like,
especially the protose roast, the gluten biscuit, and the chocolates.
"I would like to get hold of a list of your books; I want to put them
into the hands of our students to read. Kindly give me a list of the
names and the publishers and I will esteem it a favour.
"I might have said further in reference to our College that it is
listed by the New York Board of Regents as well as by the Illinois
State Board of Health. We are going to make considerable improvement
in our school the next year. We are trying to put up a new building.
We need $100,000 very much, as our work has no endowment and it
requires very great sacrifice and most strenuous effort to keep it
going. Our teachers work for a mere pittance and our students are
compelled to save and economise in every way to get through. Nearly
all of them have to pay their way in work of some sort.
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