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Show THESE SCHOOLS ARE A DISGRACE Chicago, March 1. President J. G. Schurman of Cornell University, in an address before th.- American Medical association yesterday, said he considered consid-ered commercial schools of medicine aud medical schools "hitched on" to unlverFitles to complete their sphere of actlvliy a discrace to the countrv. "I do not hesitate to assert," he declared, de-clared, "that many of our medical schools and colleges have been established estab-lished for the pecuniary benefit of their promoters, with the result that we no' have In the United States almost al-most us many of these institutions n3 all the rest of the civilized world. Tho perwmul profit of individuals has been tho mom powerful and prollfl;. motive, for the multiplication of medical col-h?G?.3t, col-h?G?.3t, as. It also Las been-the most pernicious. - - "At the tamo time there has been a growing appreciation of , tho fact that every professional school to bo vital and efficient must be a department depart-ment of a university. I am, Indeed, firmly persuaded that no medical bchnol of the highest class can be maintained apart from a university. But I urn equally persuaded that no j university, merely because it is a university, uni-versity, is Justified in founding a med leal college. In itltuijonal ambition Is as unhallowed unhal-lowed a motUc for the multiplication of medical colleges as the love of per onal gain. Tho latter motive has filled the country with commcrc'al schools of medicine. These schools are a disgrace to our country " |