st, was erected
northeast of the Campus on the hills above the Huron River. Designed to
accommodate about eighty patients, it has been enlarged again and again,
until finally in 1919 the State appropriated over a million dollars for
an entirely new building, which will cost eventually three times that
sum, to be completed in 1922. Not only will this new Hospital
accommodate nearly six hundred patients under the far more exacting
requirements of modern hospital practice, but it will also be by far the
largest hospital controlled entirely by a medical school and maintained
for the sole benefit of the people of a state.

The medical course was finally increased in 1890 to four years of nine
months, while the entrance requirements were placed on the same basis as
the admission to the classical or scientific courses in the Literary
Department. At the same time a "combination" course enabled the student
to graduate from both the Literary Department and the Medical School in
six years. The final evolution of the curriculum up to the present time
came in 1914 when this combination was made compulsory. This meant that
at least two years' preliminary work in the Literary College was
required before the student was permitted to enter the Medical School.
In 1903 a new Medical Building was completed at a cost of about
$200,000, to provide the class rooms and laboratories for the work of
the first two years. It contains two amphitheaters, two lecture rooms,
and the laboratories of hygiene, bacteriology, physiological chemistry,
anatomy, histology and embryology and pathology, as well as the
pathological museum. To the great regret of many medical alumni, and in
fact all who loved the relics of the University's first days, the
picturesque old Medical Building with its simple Greek portico was razed
in 1914. It had been considered unsafe for some time, and stood
abandoned and unused at one side of the new building.

Although the original University Act called for a Law Department, and
even gave it first place in their scheme for organization after the
Literary College, the favorable time for its establishment did not
appear for nearly twenty years. There were already a number of law
schools in operation elsewhere, one of them at the University of
Pennsylvania dated as far back as 1790; but for the most part legal
education was haphazard and primitive. Candidates for the bar ordinarily
prepared for practice by reading in a lawyer's off