CHAPTER XXXVIII. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. Medical schools in the Northern, Western, and some of the Southern States now require attendance upon courses of four years as a condition of graduation. Eleven schools have an annual session of nine months, and nineteen schools have sessions of eight months. In the University of Michigan "the literary student who intends to enter medicine has an opportunity, by electing from the courses of the first two years of the medical curriculum, of shortening from one and one-half to two years his total period of residence at the university." In the medical school of Yale University "graduates in arts, philosophy, or science, who have pursued studies in chemistry, physiology, anatomy, and histology during their undergraduate courses may be admitted to the second-year class, with certain conditions." A large number of medical schools have similar regulations. Upon examination of the diagram showing the percentage of increase in the number of students during the ten years 1887-1897, it will be found that while theological students increased thirty per cent in number, dental students increased 284 per cent, or nearly ten times as fast. While medical students increased 108 per cent, law students increased 228 per cent. DIAGRAM 2.-Percentage of increase in number of students in ten years, 1887-1897. States. TABLE 1.--General summary of statistics of professional and allied schools, for 1896-97. TABLE 2.-Summary of statistics of schools of theology, for 1896–97. |