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As these constitute the sole basis of the plea for " fair play towards Trinity Medical College," and as much harm may be done if they pass unrefuted, the Medical Faculty of the University of Toronto desire to place before the graduates of the University and the people of the Province an explicit rejoinder I'egarding each of these misstatements : — 1. The Students of Trinity Medical College may be admitted to the privileges of the University Laboratories and to the Lectures in the Scientific Departments of the University on exactly the same terms as students of the University Medical Faculty, or as students of Knox College, St, Michael's College or Wycliffe College. 2. Studeuts of the Trinity Medical College who wish to have the privileges of the University Laboratories and Lectures are, on registration for this purpose, enrolled, not in the Medical Faculty, but in the Arts Faculty of the University and, theroi fore, no studert of Trinity Medical College can afipear as a student of the University Medical Faculty when he becomes a student of the Science Department of the University. He does not " lose his identity " as a student of Trinity Medical College. 3. Students of Trinity Medical College who matriculate in the University of Toronto can compete for all the honors, scholarships, and medals, which the Univereity is entitled to awai'd. Only those scholarships and medals which are given by the Medical Faculty out of its own earnings are limited to students of that Faculty. It is open to Trinity Medical College likewise to establish scholarships, prizes and medals, for her own students who take the University Examinations. 4. The privileges of the University Library are open to the students of Trinity Medical College on exactly the same terms as to students of the University Medical Faculty. 5. The University Medical Faculty is • not state-aided. It, on the contrary, has during the last ten years netted, through students' fees for instruction in the Science Subjects and for Examinations and Degrees^ over $40,000, or on an average over $4,000 a year as income to the University. Last year (1898-99) the net sum received from this source was $4,335.85. In 1887, when there was no Medical Faculty, the net sum received in this way from 103 Medical Students {o( which only two were from Trinity Medical College) was only $310. ,, 6. In the period when there was no Medical Faculty in thtv University the number of students decreased greatly on any attempt to raise the standard. The Medical Schools were not in ii position to teach up to the elevated standard, consequently : students sought degrees in other Universities. This explains, why the University up to 1887 had so few medical graduates, and why the number of graduates in medicine in the last thirteen years is nearly double the number of graduates in medicine of the previous 40 years. (See cable showing numbers of graduates for various yeai's from 1880 to 1899.) 7. Annually from 1887 to 1892 the majority of Medical- Examiners of the University were not connected wit'i the Medical Faculty and several of them were members of Trinity Medical College, but in 1886-92 only five students came from Trinity Medical College. (See table of examiners.) 8. The Medical Faculty also pays $1,200 for rent of rooms in the west wing of the Univer- sity Biological Department, rooms, which on the calculation of the University Architect involved in 1891 an expenditure of $30,000. This calculated at four per cent, (the average rate the University now receives on its investments) yields $1,200, the amount which is annually paid. The total cost of the maintenance of the Biological Department, as a whole, for 1808-99 was $1,611.04. Yet, although the Medical Faculty occupies one-fifth of the total space in the department it paid $700, or nearly one- half of the total cost of maintenance for the year. 9. The claim of Trinity Medical College that she teaches the .subjects of the Medical Curriculum as efficiently and as thor- oughly as the University Medical Faculty is denied. She doM not teach Biology at all, and she does not impart instruction in Chemistry and Physics in the way or to the extent required by the University Curriculum. Her courses of instruction in some of the other scientific subjects are quite as defective. In conise. ' quence of all this her studcntH arc not idcparcd for the Medic;! I Examinations of the University of Toronto. The; claim thai the University Examinei-s have been all from the Medical Faculty (which is not correct), therefore, is, in reality, an attempt to conceal the defects in the instniction imparted in Trinity Medical College. 10. The coui-ses of in8tr"ction in the Sciences which the University Medical Curriculum demands of every medical stu- dent are those which are exacted of every medical student hy each of the Universities and licensing bodies in Great Britain and Ireland, and, therefore, the statement privately circulated by members of Trinity Medical College that the University Medical Curriculum is " Hialiev " th:.ii it ought to be will scarcely be regarded as a serious intuctraent of the University or the Medical Faculty by those who know that there is no lack of candidates for admission to the Medical profession in Ontario. It is, on the other hand, a matter of pride to the Medical Faculty that her course of instruction and the University examinations are recognized by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin. 11. In one of the statements prepared for the Legislature, in an attempt to justify the McKay Bill, Dr. Geikie and his colleagues say that they wish to make the Medical Department of the University of Toronto as broad iis the Arts Department, which, they claim, consists of a number of Arts Colleges. This statement implies an ignorance of the constitution of the University. There are only two Arts Colleges in the Univer- sity, viz.. University College and Victoria College. The students of these have the privileges of the University Laboratories and Lectures free. The students of the University Medical Faculty, Knox College, Wycliffe College, St Michael's College, the Woman's Medical College, and Trinitv Medical College, pay for these privileges, each of them at precisely the same rate and on precisely the same terms. Dr. Geikie claims that the Medical Col- leges and Schools should be on an equality with the Arts Colleges, that is (being already on an equality with the other affiliated Colleges), we assume, with University College and the Victoria College. If this claim were granted the students of Trinity Medical College would get instruction in the University Science Departments free, that is, Trinity Medical College would be state-aided, which would involve the acceptance by Dr. Geikie and the Province of the very principle which the Dean of Trinity Medical College has been so vigorously opposing. 6 TABLE I. Amount of University Ineomo ileiiv^d from M«ilival Faculty. 1H97-9N. F(tr Ijintruction to Medical Students in Arts Subjecth, for Kxaniinations and Degrees in Medicine (see p. 1(», Univer- Hity Auditor's Ueport for 1897-1»8) •l!4,71)*i 0(» Kor Fees paid ICxatniners (aee University Kinan'-e Kepoi't 1897-98) 894 58 Net Income from Medical Faculty !JJ3,897 42 (This does not include .iJl.'iOO paid for rent of i-ooms in tlie Biological Department, and $700 for maintenance of same. ) 1898-99. For Instruction to Medical Students in Arts' Subjects for Examinations and Degrees in Medocine (see p. 14 Univer- sity Auditors' Report for 1898-99) .'5!o,07o '2.') For Fees paid Examiners (see p. 11, University Finance Report 1898-99) 739 45 Net Income from Medical Faculty $4,336 80 (This does not include $1,200 paid ;for rent of rooms in University Biological Department, and $700 for maintenance of same. ) 1886-87. When there was no Medical Faculty. Amount received by the University for Instruction, Kxaniina- tions and Degrees in Medicinr $1,015 00 Fees paid 'to Examiners in Medicine 705 00 Net amount $310 00 TABLE IL The number of Graduates in Medicine in the University ol' Toronto from 1880 to 1900. YeAk. Numuek. Kkmauks. 1880 32 1881 32 1882 15 Standard of Curriculum raised. 1883 10 1884 10 . 1885 1« 1887 25 University Medical Faculty formed. 1888 30 1889 38 1890 52 * 1891 55 1892 H6 1893 54 ,. 1894 59 1895 65 Standard of Curriculum further raised. ' 1896 59 i 1897 59 1898 56 \ ' 1899 53 1900 (?) 52 6 TABLE J 1 1. Compobitioii of tlie Huatd of Mcilii-ai Kxaiiiimr.s of tlio University of Toronto for 18HH-!il. In 1886 ami 18H7 all tin; Kxiiiniuors wcru fi(»m Trinity MuiHcal Schuol. from th«) Toronto School of Medicine, antl from the general professioti. In the latter year of the 103 Medical Student h wiio took the University Kxaminations, Trinity Medical School sent only 2. In 1888 er of any such medical col- lege or school, except the said representative, shall ))e eligible for election to the Senate. Each affiliated medical college or school shall elect its own representative upon the Senate. Rev. Stat. (!. 2R9, B. 44 amended. Exaiuinei-s in tnedicul course. Appoint- ment of oxaminei's. Rev. Stat. 0.293,8.11, subs. 4 re- pealed. Kepresenta- tion of graduates in law on Senate. 4. Sub-section 4 of section 11 of the said Act is hereby pealed and the following sub-section substituted therefor :— r; re- 4. At elections of the Senate the graduates in Law of tlie University of Toronto shall vote as one body and shall be entit- led to elect two members of the Senate, i:XF»T.ANATION OF TIIK MrKAY 151 M. What Tin; McKay Hiij. Mkanh: — 1. Tt involves tlic^ aoolition of the Medical Kacnlty of tin* University of Toroiitf) aiul tlio control of Afedical cducution in Ontai'io liy jinvatc corpomiions. 2. It gives the appointment of the Kxaininers in Medicine of the University of Toronto to private corporations teachinj^ Medicine. Those corporations are to recommend the Kxaminers from their own staffs, and the University Senate cannot appoint any others except those recommended. There is not anothe!" University in tlie world which would he so fettered and ham- pered. These private corporations are not under any control or influence on tho. pait of the Legislatiire or the University, and yet Trinity Medical (College, a private corporation, asks tlie Legislature to give the control of tlu; University Medical Exam- inations ovei- to her, to the Women's Medical School, and to the Toronto School of Medicine, if it is revived. It will inevitably degrade the standard of Medical education and lower the good name of the University throughout the world. ."i. Tt deprives the 1,800 graduates of the University of the right which they now possess of electing four members of tho University Senate as their representatives. The Medical (grad- uates of the University are thus singled out by Trinity Medical College frouj the Graduates in Arts, Law and Medicine, as unworthy of representation in the Governing Council of the University. This Bill was introduced without word of warning to the University, and Dr. Geikie and some of his colleagues have been very active in lobbying the Legislature in its behalf for the last eight weeks. Univkusitv ok Toronto, April 4th, 1900.