The University Clinic

The absurdity of the Detroit Evening N'ews trying to instruct the Kegents of :he Untversity of Slichigan about clinical advantages a so apparent that its long and labored effort of Jan. 4 will have no weight. Confeseedly desirous of destroying the university, its insistance upon the removal of the medical department to Detroit as necessary to the Buccess of that department, comes ■with poor grace. What does the Evening News know about clinical advantages compared -with President Angelí? The average editorial writer on a daily paper has no lime for study and investigaron, and Ma opinión on this subject, especially in this oase of a hostile critic, is absoutely of no valué. What is the assuinption upon which the whole agitation for removal restp? ifc is that Detroit affords great clinical advantages. Il is a ala asaumpt If that assumption be false, the whole agitation lacks logical support. President Angelí in his exhaustive tieatment of the subject last October, shows that when the university committee visited Hai-per's hospital in Detroit, t actually had lees patients than the university hospital contained. The several hospitals of Detroit undoubtedly contain mnre patients than the university hospital; but the diffrence is not so great as to warrant the radical change ignorantly urged by the Evening News. The Detroit medical college, having those clinieal facilities, does not pretend to comparison with the medical department of the UniverBity of Michigan, and those medical studente wbo, after studying here, desire greater hospital practice, go to the great centers of wealth and poverty, like New York, London, Paris or Berttn. Detroit, a email, sleepy old cily, shouldn't swell up like the toad and think itself as large as the ox. It really isn't so much larger than Ann Arbor as to entitle it to put on such airs. lts slinical facilities are not wonderful, and are no greater than might be had riere with proper hospital accommodations. The president of the state medical soeiety sdd: "There is no hospital in this city (Detroit) which is properly equipped, or which ha inoney enough to pay its running expenses without fmancial embarrassment." The objections which President Angell, after long consideration, urged to the removal, are too numerous to give here. The News would contení ptuously brush them aside with the claim that they were the arguments of Ann Arbor real estáte owners. Personal interesta are suspected of originating the proposal for a change. And the News actually pats little Jones with his pedantry and narrowness on the back! Well, even the News wouldn't do that if it knew Jones.