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274 Entrance requirement: The M.D. degree. dttendance: There is an average attendance of 90 students in winter, 50 in summer. Short courses, usually six weeks in length and of a practical nature, are given. Formerly, the so-ealled "general" ticket was most popular; now, specialties are in demand and the medical courses are gaining on the surgical. Teaching staff: 156, of whom $8 are professors, 118 of other grade. Resources available for maintenance: The school, long without productive resources, has recently received a gift of $1,600,000, which, after paying deb and pro,iding needed extensions, will leave a productive endowment of perhaps $400,000. Laborator,jjacilities: These are very meager. A single room is devoted to laboratory work; little or no research or experimental work is carried on. Clinical facilities: The Postgraduate Hospital is of modern construction and is excellently conducted. It contains 225 beds, 75 per cent of which are free. The new building will add 170 beds and space for clinical and laboratory.teaching. Other hospitals are also used. Them is a good dispensary, very largely attended. iDat of ,it: Jr anuar3t, 1910. (5) NEw YORK POLYCLINIC MEDICAL CHOOL ,ND HosPITAL. Organized 1881. Entrance requirement: The M.D. degree. dttendance: 9.5 to 50 students are in attendance usually. Teaching staff: 149, of whom 9.4 are professors, 125 of other grade. Resources available.for maintenance: Fees. Laborator,jfacilitie#: There is a pathological laboratory for practical work. Cllnlcal facilities: Postgraduate instruction is offered in the Polyclinic Hospital (100 beds), in the dispensary, which is largely attended, and in a considerable number of other hospitals, with which members of the faculty are connected as staff officers. The inatruction is practical in character. Datt of drit: Dze. srnbr, 1909. (4) MANHArAS Eyv., EA, av TaRoa? Hosprrr PosrcRaDw?s ScHooL Established 1869. An independent institution. Entrance requirement: The M.D. degree. ,dttendance: There is an average attendance of I Students. Courses range from one to six months or more in length. Students who attend at least three months are eligible to appointment as clinical assistants. Teaching staff: 11.