Show DR SCHURMAN ON MEDICAL SCHOOLS Cornell's President Says Many of Them Have Been Established for Pecuniary Benefits A Disgrace to the Country More of These Institutions in the United States Than in All the Rest of the W World orId Chicago March l 1 President I.-President President J. J G. G Schurman of Cornell University in an address address address ad ad- dress before the American Medical l Association Associations tion yesterday said he considered commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial schools of medicine and medical schools hitched on to universities universities' to complete their sphere of activity a a disgrace to the country I do not hesitate to assert he declared that many of our medical schools and colleges have b been en established for the pecuniary benefit of their promoters with the be result that we now have in the United States almost as many of these institutions as all the rest of the civilized world The personal profit of individuals has been the most powerful and prolific motive for the multiplication of medical colleges as it also has been the most pernicious At the same time there has been a growing appreciation of the fact that every professional school to be vital and efficient must be a department of a university I am indeed firmly persuaded that no medical school chool of the highest class can be maintained maintained main main- apart from a university But I am equally persuaded that no university merely merely merely mere mere- ly because it is a university is justified in founding a medical college Institutional ambition is as unhallowed a motive for the multiplication of medical colleges as the love of personal gain The latter motive has filled the country with commercial schools of medicine These schools are a disgrace to our country o 0 |