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Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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was to be kept a secret, and that the wing was to be known as the Loomis Laboratory. It was through thehands of Dr. Loomis this donation came to the University. The West wing is the Clinical building, and containsa dispensary which treats nine or ten thousand patients each year gratuitously. The Bellevue Hospital iswhere the students receive much of their instruction. The total value of the buildings and grounds belongingto the University is about $750,000, and its wealth altogether nearly $2,000,000. Like Columbia College, itwill soon remove to a new location, on the east side of the Harlem River, between Morris Dock and Kings-bridge. The intention at present is take the Washington Scpiare building to pieces and reconstruct them onthe new site. The first faculty of the University was that of Arts and Science, which is coeval with the college, but inJ 866 regular University work was begun by twelve chairs, all of which but one enrolled members. This work NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. XXXI
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MEDICAL. XXXll NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. was expected to equal in magnitude that for undergraduate students; but Universit.v work, so far as it aims todiffuse knowledge, has been achieved b)- this faculty in a great degree from thebeginning. Fourteen pro-fessors are engaged in undergraduates work, but are not so closely occupied as to prevent them giving much timeto advanced students. It was in a room of this department that Samuel F. B. Morse invented the recordingtelegraph, and that Dr. John W. Draper first invented the art of utilizing photography in taking a likeness ofthe human countenance. The faculty of ^Medicine was organized in 1841 with a corps of six professors, of whom Drs. ValentineMott and John W. Draper are the best known. In 1889-90 633 .students were enrolled, nearlv a hundred ofwhom were foreigners. The faculty of Law was planned in 1835 by the Hon. B. F. Butler, Attornev General ofthe United States, Init a quarter of a century elapsed before it took definite shape.

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