Entrance requirement: Below an actual four-year high school course, since certificates of uncertain value have been accepted and examinations used cover less than half a high school course. This is the less defensible as 97 percent of the total enrolment come fom New England.
Attendance: The attendance is 384; 97 per cent from New England, 80 per cent from Massachusetts.
Teaching staff: 103, of whom 33 are professors. There are five full-time professors and five full-time assistants in pathology, histology, physiology, and chemistry.
Resources available for maintenance: The school relies on its fees, amounting to $59,098, repaying out of them large advances for buildings made out of the general income of the college.
Laboratory facilities: The laboratories are entirely adequate to the teaching work of the school.
Clinical facilities: For medical clinics the school is confined to the Boston City Hospital and the Boston Dispensary, which furnish abundant material under the usual more or less imperfect control. The Carney Hospital provides considerable additional work in surgery; the specialties are cared for in other institutions. The school is thus clinically handicapped in exactly the same way as Harvard, but to a greater degree by reason of its being restricted in its medical clinics to a single municipal hospital and dispensary. Its range of choice in the matter of clinical professors is limited by the same considerations.
Date of visit: October, 1909.
(8) Boston University School of Medicine. Homeopathic. Organized 1873. The University connection is nominal.
Entrance requirement: A certificate of graduation from an approved four-year high school, or examination; the examination is not set by the university, but by the medical school, and is markedly below the four-year high school standard.
Attendance: Total enrolment, 90; 83 per cent from New England, about 60 per cent from Massachusetts.
Teaching staff: 64, 29 being professors.
Resources available for maintenance: The institution is mainly dependent on fees ($12,762, estimated), but these have been consistently used to develop its facilities.
Laboratory facilities: In striking contrast with schools in which, whatever the claim, fees have not been so used, this school has an excellent building, admirably kept and well equipped, and attractive laboratories for pathology, bacteriology, physiology, chemistry, and anatomy. There is no experimental pharmacology. It possesses a library in charge of a permanent librarian, a beautifully mounted collection
