The Seats In The New Hospital

The seats in the amphitheater of the new hospital are a bugbear to the building. The seats are nothing more than common benches, and three hundred have been crowded into a space only large enough for one hundred and fifty . The result is that the seats have been made only nine inches wide and less than twenty inches f rom the back of one seat to the back of the seat in front. The backs of the seats have scarcely any incline, so that the student is obliged to sit erect on a nine-inch Doard with only eleven inches in :ront for his feet and knees, with no arms to rest on and very little room :or shifting his position. After a senior medie has remained on those seats for four hours and a half, as he is usually obliged to, besides the three hours in the morning at the Medical building, his ambition to )one for three or four hours in the evening will be paralyzed. We would suggest and strongly urge that the present seats be removed at :he earliest opportunity and that some form of opera chair replace hem, such as are used in the clinical amphitheatres in the eastern ïospitals. There are never one mndred and fifty students at a clinic and one hundred and seventy-flve ;hairs would seat it comfortably and