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Date of visit: January, 1910.

PITTSBURGH: Population, 570,065.

Laboratory facilities: The school has within a year undergone a complete transformation. A more thorough piece of house-cleaning within so short a period is hardly credible. A year ago, before the University of Pittsburgh obtained control, the so-called laboratories were dirty and disorderly beyond description. Since the present management took hold last fall, the admission of students has been much more carefully supervised; the building has been put in excellent condition; laboratories for chemistry, physiology, bacteriology, and pathology have been remodeled and equipped with modern apparatus for both teaching and research; foreign and domestic periodicals have been subscribed for; a study-room in good order has been instituted in place of the lounging-room where last year "four dozen wooden chairs were broken." Whole-time instructors of modern training and ideals have been secured. This is the more remarkable, as only fees have been available. Despite the necessary defects of schools relying wholly on fees, the experience of this