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282 the higher standard can do good work on the lower basis. In the south now is it more important to destroy commercial schools by collecting in good university institutions a sufficient body of students, or to provide high-grade teaching for a few, leaving utterly wretched teaching for the vast majority P The dilemma is worthy of very careful consideration. A word as to the colored school at leigh. This is a philanthropic enterprise that has been operating for well-nigh thirty years and has nothing in the way of plant to show for it. Its income ought to have been spent within; it has gone outside, to reimburse practitioners who supposed themselves assisting in a philanthropic work. Real philanthropy would have taken a very different course. As a matter of fact, Raleigh cannot, except at great expense, maintain clinical teaching; The way to help the negro is to help the two medical schools that have a chance to become efficient,— Howard at Washington, Meharry at Nashville.

NORTH DAKOTA Population, 586,108. Number of physicians, 55i. Ratio, 1:971. Number of medical schools, 1.

GRAND FORKS: Potrelation, 1,60. r, UNIvaSlTY OF 1N]ORT DACOTA, COLLFf. E OF MI)IClNg. Organized 1905. A half-school. An organic part of the state university. Entrance requirement: Two years of college work. .ttttendance: 9. Teachlr' staff: 9 professors and 7 instrUctors take part in the work of the department. The professor of bacteriology is State Bacteriologist. Resources available for maintenance: The department shares in the general funds of the university. Its budget amounts to t6800; income from fees, $450. Laboratory facilities: The laboratory of bacteriolo, being at the same time the public health laboratory of the state, is well equipp9d ' and very active. Subjects given in the regular universitylaboratories are likewise well provided for. For the specifically medical subjects—physiology, pathology, anatomy—the provision is slighter. The students are, of course, few. A library and museum have been started. ate of vldt: Mat, 1909. [See South Dakota, "General Corwlderations,"