Removal Of The Medical Department

It was thouglit that tlie followlng resolution of the Board of Kegents carriei at its last meeting, had settled a mucl vexed question: Resolved. That it Is nelther practicable nor desirable to remove any ponton of the medí cal department to Detroit, or eUewhere; anc tliat, It 1m tlit' setlled pollcy of the Uuard that the Unlverslty hIihII be malntalned In entlrety, al Ann Arbor, as It Is at present establlshed. Not po, however, "Instead of ending or quietinji discussion of the topic, it has ealled attention to it anew," said the Detroit Free Press of last Sunday. President Anjrell's exIiHiistive report showing tliat aremoval of the clinical departraent, would be linpractiral and miht he followed by seiious loss to the department and inertiaeed expenditure to the Btate, tlie prompt action of the Board in endorsing the report and the peoplei' confidence in the medical school show in the increased attendance of students are all unsatisfctory to those wlio are assailiiii; the institution under guise of friendsliip. Some person more interested in liis priv.-ile welfare than in that of the Univertlty hal Induoed ]i uties to send communicatlons to the Free Press lirvtng the "clinic remoVHl," ind tlie substance of their coinmunlcatlons appear editorially in that paper, as a rehash of tlie old arguments, b:ised on the increaseü clinical faciüties of u large city like Detroit. The meanlng of all this is too evident. The agitation is simply preliminaiy to a move on the legislature. The next pltin of attack will be to estabblish by le{llative enaetment a clinical school at Detroit to be run in the name of the Univer8ity, or to make appropriations to the Universily contingent on a removul of tlie clinical department. It is high time that our citizens iuterested themselves in this matter. A removal of any part of the medical dcparlnieut to Detroit means nothing less than its entire removal in course of time. The proci'ssof disintegration once commenced will continue uutil all the professional schools are located in Detroit or elswliere, then instead of Borne eihteen liundred students to our city we will be ( 'iimpcllcd to be contented with less than half that uumber. Citizens of all classes and business men ni particular sliould meet this question squarely. We cau't afford to ignore it. Let us rlse above party spirit and send to the next lefrislature a representlve competent to t In ott Ie all such attacks. Mr. Bawyer is the man :or the place. His record is a guarantee hat the dropping off of any of the branches of our University will receive no encourageraent from the legislature.