For Longer Professional Training

It ia easy to eee that if ten of the leading universities oí the country should now issue edicts that on and after 1895 no studente would be received in the schools of law and medicine that should not have completed the sophomore year in some reputable college, the first step toward a great reform would have been taken. The second step in this direction should be the annouuncement of a rule that no student can receive the professional degree in less than four years from the time of admission to the professional course of study. It is not difficult to find indications that the country is ready for a change of this kind. I believe it to be a great mistake to suppose that all or even a majority, of our students are in precipítate haste to enter upon professional life. In Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Buffalo, are to be found medical schools in which the degree of doctor of medicine s granted at the end of two terms of from four to eight months each. And yet in the small city of Ann Arbor, which is favored with no such clinical advantages as are afforded in a metropolis, there are at the present time, nearly 400 students pursuing a medical course of four years. So it probably would be where.-