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Rh The institution is frankly commercial. Its change of name (dropping "eclectic") is a business move.

Date of visit: April, 1909.

(6) . Organized 1895. This school gives the bulk of its instruction at Battle Creek, Michigan, which see for complete account.

(7) . Organized 1892. A night school, occupying three upper floors of a business house. An independent institution.

Entrance requirement: Nominal compliance with state law. A one-year pre-medical class is operated by way of satisfying the law.

Attendance: 112.

Teaching staff: 37, of whom 28 are professors.

Resources available for maintenance: Fees, amounting to $12,880 (estimated).

Laboratory facilities: The equipment consists of a meager outfit for chemistry, a somewhat better equipment for physiology, though no animals were to be seen, and a slight outfit for pathology and bacteriology. Anatomy is taught by lectures "with the cadaver" from the beginning of the year until May 15, after which there is "dissecting until the close of the year."

Clinical facilities: Clinical facilities are practically nil,—one or two night clinics being all that the school claims to offer. The school once had access to Grace Hospital, a private institution of 30 beds; but it has recently been turned out for failure to pay for the privilege.

The dispensary attendance varies from two to ten, four nights weekly. No particular rooms for dispensary purposes are provided: "patients are taken right into the rooms where the classes are."

An out-and-out commercial enterprise. The instruction is plainly a quiz-compend drill aimed at the written examinations set by the state board of Illinois and of other states. The possibility of teaching medicine acceptably in a night school is discussed below (p. 216, note).

Date of visit: April, 1909.

These two schools are bracketed because they are only different aspects of one enterprise worked in two shifts, one body of students attending by day, the other by night. The plant is thus in "continuous performance." It is owned by its president, who is in the main assisted in the scientific branches by recent college graduates, to whom small sums are paid; in the clinical branches by young physicians who