The Indiana Journal of Medicine, Vol. 5

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Excerpt from The Indiana Journal of Medicine, Vol. 5: May, 1874Dents must pass before they enter the university. Now a university proper, is an institution in which is taught every department of knowledge, scientific, philosophi cal, and professional, by competent instructors, supplied with buildings, libraries, museums, labratories, and ap paratus for experiments and illustrations in every field of research traversed by man. It should embrace, at least, five faculties, viz: The faculty of arts, philosophy and science, the faculty of law, the faculty of medicine, the faculty of military science and civil engineering, and one of agriculture, the mechanical arts and mining. There are subdivisions in each of these departments em bracing only specialties. To aid our conceptions of what a university should be, let me introduce you to that of Berlin, which now confessedly ranks first among all the universities of the world. The current expenses of this university amount to per annum. $200, 000 are annually appropriated from the national treasu ry and are derived from tuition fees and other perquisites. The whole number of professors is 178, and the number of students is The total number of branches taught in the best colleges in the United States are only about seventy, less than one-fifth of the number embraced in the University of Berlin. In this university each student selects his profession and takes his course of lectures under the faculty of that depart ment. He has also the privilege of attending the lec tures, of such professors as he may choose, in the other faculties. Students who have taken the prescribed course, and passed satisfactory examination in any one of the departments, receive a diploma and the degree of doctor of law, medicine, theology, or philosophy, accord ing to their chosen profession. In buildings, fixtures, libraries, museums, apparatus, botanical and zoological gardens, and all other faculties of instruction, experi ments and illustrations, this institution stands unrivaled. The plan is to teach the student all that is known in.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.