equal to that offered by this college. Students thus advanced may not complain of any conflict of hours, nor absent themselves from any part of the lower conflicting course; but they may make up deficiencies in the work of one term in any other term in which such work is offered. Graduates of medical colleges in good standing with the Illinois State Board of Health, who have passed the examination of said Board, may be admitted to the graduating class without examination by complying with all the other requirements of undergraduates. Examinations for advanced standing are held only during the week immediately preceding the opening of the term. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION During the first two years the time of the student is about equally divided between laboratory and didactic work. The plan of instruction in the College contemplates the freest use of laboratory teaching. Wherever possible, practical laboratory work is made to supplement didactic teaching. Students are taught not only by prepared specimens, but they are required to prepare their own specimens from the original material and are thus made familiar with technical methods, so that they become able independently to carry a technical investigation through all of its stages. During the junior and senior years the time is about equally divided between clinical and didactic work (much of which is done in class room), with a preponderance of clinical instruction in the senior year. This clinical instruction is carried on, as far as possible, with the student at the patient's side. Attendance upon clinics is required in the same way as upon lectures, and the students are graded upon, and given credit for, their work in the clinical courses, just as they are for the work in the didactic and laboratory courses. The students of the junior and senior years are divided into classes for dispensary work, and these classes have instruction in rotation in the various departments of practical medicine and surgery. BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT In the summer of 1901 the College purchased from the Board of Education of Chicago the West Division High School property, situated adjacent to the original college building. This purchase, which represents, including alterations, an expenditure of over a quarter of a million of dollars, gives the College three-fourths of a city block lying between Harrison and Congress, and Honore and Lincoln streets, and a group of buildings which, for the purpose of medical education, are unsurpassed in the United States, and equalled in only a few instances in the world. The new College building is a brick and stone structure two hundred feet long by one hundred and ten feet deep, and five stories high. It fronts on four streets and stands on a lot entirely adequate in size for such a building, so that it is freely supplied with air and light. The building contains three large lecture rooms with a seating capacity of two hundred each, a clinical amphitheater modeled on modern plans for perfect asepsis, with a seating capacity of over three hundred; an assembly hall with a seating capacity of twelve hundred, and many recitation rooms seating from thirty to one hundred and fifty students each. It also contains special laboratories for physiology, chemistry, pathology, bacteriology, biology, materia medica, and microscopical or chemical diagnosis, each capable of accommodating from fifty to two hundred students at a time. The general equipment of the building and the special equipment of the laboratories are in keeping with the size and character of the building, and may challenge comparison with those of any other school in the country. The assembly hall is so constructed that it may be converted into a gymnasium. It is provided with all the apparatus of a well equipped gymnasium, including numerous shower baths, and gives the College a gymnasium which is fully equal to those possessed by the better class of undergraduate colleges. The use of the gymnasium is free to all the students of the College. HOSPITALS AND HOSPITAL FACILITIES The West Side Hospital, containing 125 beds, owned by members and friends of the Faculty, is connected to the College by a corridor, and its clinical facilities thus made easily available for the instruction of the students. Adjacent to the College building is the Cook County Hospital, with approximately 1,000 patients, supplying a quantity and variety of material which no private institution can command. In the amphitheater of the hospital, much of the clinical instruction of the College is given. In addition to the foregoing resources, members of the Faculty are connected with various other hospitals situated in different parts of the city, and draw freely upon them for the benefit of the students. QUINE LIBRARY The Quine Library is the best equipped private medical library west of the Alleghany Mountains. It contains all standard text books, books of reference and periodicals for the use of medical students, and is under the direction of a trained librarian. REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION 1. Satisfactory evidence of good moral character. 2. Attendance during four collegiate years, the last of which must have been in this institution, and the completion of the required work of each year. 3. Satisfactory deportment. 4. Payment in full of all fees. (See page 358). REGISTRAR, University of Illinois, Urbana. COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY (For Faculty of College of Dentistry see p. 39). BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT The College of Dentistry of the University of Illinois begins its sixth collegiate year October 8th, 1906. The establishment of the College of Dentistry by the State University insures a stability and an earnest of future development and of high character of this department that must commend itself to all well-wishers of the dental profession. The College occupies its own building, situated on the corner of Harrison and Honore streets in Chicago. This building is a six-story stone and brick structure, constructed at a cost of $100,000, and is occupied exclusively by the School of Dentistry. It is commodious and complete in every particular. The building stands on the corner of two wide streets and is separated from the adjacent buildings on the north and east by wide, open spaces, so that the provisions for ventilation, and especially for light, are of the best possible character. It is located directly opposite the Cook County Hospital, in the center of the clinical field of Chicago, and is thus at all times insured of abundance of clinical material. Adjoining the college on the west is the West-Side Hospital, and on the north are the new buildings of the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois. The Infirmary occupies the entire top floor of the main building. Large skylights, as well as north, east, south and west sidelights assist in making the Infirmary ideal. As there are no immediately adjoining buildings, the light is unobstructed on all sides. The height is such that the observer has a birds-eye view of the city in all directions. The Infirmary is divided into the Operative, Prosthetic and Orthodontia sections. These departments are equipped with new chairs of the latest improved pattern, with fountain cuspidors attached, double-decked stands for accommodating students' operating cases, and sanitary washbowls with hot and cold water, formaldehyde instrument sterilizer and all appliances that in any way assist in making the Infirmary a model. The Infirmary has adjacent to it a prosthetic laboratory, in which the students can do their molding, soldering and fusing. Compressed air apparatus, electric ovens for porcelain work, electric lathes, and such other apparatus as go properly to equip an ideal prosthetic laboratory are provided. A large passenger elevator operated by electricity connects all floors. ADMISSION AND GRADUATION Students applying for admission should bring with them such certificates and diplomas, academic or professional, as they may possess. The point system is recognized by this college. The rules and regulations passed by the National Association of Dental Faculties for the government of its members have been adopted by the faculty of this college. Seven years ago a radical change was made by dental schools in the method of examination for admission. Formerly these examinations were made by the officials of the dental schools, but the faculties' association, in 1898, passed a rule requiring that these examinations be made by public school officers in the locality in which the applicant resides. Therefore students without diplomas or teachers' certificates, desiring to matriculate in this school, must bring with them certificates signed by a county, state, or city superintendent of schools, or a principal of a high school. These certficates must show the applicants to have completed a high school course, or its equivalent, in order to entitle them to enter this college for the term beginning October, 1906. |