Medical Department OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Session Commences Monday, October 12, 1874, ENDS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1875. FACULTY. G. W. MEARS, M. D. Professor of Obstetrics. JOHN A. COMINGOR, M. D., Professor of Surgery. R. N. TODD, M. D., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine. THOS. B. HARVEY, M. D., Prof. of Medical and Surgical Diseases of Woman and Children. R. E. HAUGHTON, M. D., THAD. M. STEVENS, M. D., Prof. of Medical Jurisprudence, Toxicology and Analytic Chemistry. DOUGAN CLARK, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. C. E. WRIGHT, M. D., Lecturer on Diseases of the Eye and Ear. FEES. in pursuance of an arrangement made with the Indiana State University, no charge will be made for Prof. Tickets the ensuing session. The Matriculation, Demonstrator's and Laboratory tickets, are required to be taken each year. THE INDIANA MEDICAL COLLEGE. ADDRESS BY CYRUS NUTT, D. D., PRESIDENT OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY. Before the Graduating Class of Session 1873–4. What constitutes a modern university? The term, university, has a different meaning in different countries. In England it applies to a number of colleges with the same course of study, located together in the same city or town. The far-famed university of Oxford embraces twenty-seven, each of which, with its own buildings, library, fixtures, and faculty, corresponds to the best colleges in the United States. The university of Cambridge is an aggregation of eighteen similar schools. In the United States, and especially in the west, the name university has been greatly abused. Mere colleges, and some that have little more than preparatory departments for colleges, claim for themselves the dignified appellations of universities. In Germany a university means an institution which embraces all the professional schools. It is of a grade above the colleges. The colleges are called gymnasia, through which students must pass before they enter the university. Now. a university proper, is an institution in which is taught every department of knowledge, scientific, philosophical, and professional, by competent instructors, supplied with buildings, libraries, museums, labratories, and apparatus for experiments and illustrations in every field of research traversed by man. It should embrace, at least, five faculties, viz: The faculty of arts, philosophy and science; the faculty of law; the faculty of medicine; the faculty of military science and civil engineering; and one of agriculture, the mechanical arts and mining. There are subdivisions in each of these departments embracing only specialties. To aid our conceptions of what a university should be, let me introduce you to that of Berlin, which now confessedly ranks first among all the universities of the world. The current expenses of this university amount to $300,000 per annum. $200,000 are annually appropriated from the national treasury; and $100,000 are derived from tuition fees and other perquisites. The whole number of professors is 178, and the number of students is 3,000. The total number of branches taught in the best colleges in the United States are only about seventy; less than one-fifth of the number embraced in the University of Berlin. In this university each student selects his profession and takes his course of lectures under the faculty of that department. He has also the privilege of attending the lectures of such professors as he may choose, in the other faculties. Students who have taken the prescribed course, and passed satisfactory examination in any one of the departments, receive a diploma and the degree of doctor of law, medicine, theology, or philosophy, according to their chosen profession. In buildings, fixtures, libraries, museums, apparatus, botanical and zoological gardens, and all other faculties of instruction, experiments and illustrations, this institution stands unrivaled. The plan is to teach the student all that is known in that science and art he may have chosen, and to train him in the best methods of pursuing still further investigations in his chosen field. So that when he has fully completed his course he can say with truth, "I thoroughly understand all that is known upon the particular subject, and there is no one in this world that can teach me anything more." With mind well trained in scientific methods he is prepared to make still further progress in his field of research. Now, it is in this way only, that the grand discoveries of modern times and the intellectual development of the age have been achieved; and thus only can the world be achieved in the knowledge and civilization, and our common humanity elevated. THE REQUISITES FOR A COMPLETE UNIVERSITY. Two things are absolutely essential for the establishment of a complete university. These are money and men. The greatest want of the oldest and best institutions of learning in our country, and even those of Europe, is money. There is no limit to improvements, if sufficient means are supplied. Money is needed for two purposes: to furnish material aids for instruction, in the way of fixtures and appliances. These should be furnished liberally; and they will require large expenditures. They are the tools or instruments which the professors are to use both in imparting instruction to their classes, and in original investigations. These constitute the necessary machinery of education and progress, without which little can be done. The second great want is men. Men are needed for officers and professors. Workmen of native ability, and of the greatest culture and skill should be employed, in order that complete success may be assured. They should be live men, fully abreast with all the improvements of the age, and among the very first in their several departments. They should fully comprehend all that has been done in their special fields, and be prepared to lead them to new discoveries. The professors should be possessed of scholarships of the |