No record will be kept of work elected, and such courses shall not count toward the degree. In selecting these studies, students must so arrange that no conflict with prescribed work shall occur.

Instructors in charge of elective courses will post notices of the semesters, days and hours, when the work is to be conducted.

GRADUATE COURSES.

ADVANCED STUDY AND RESEARCH.

The rapid development of medical science has necessitated the introduction of many new subjects into the curriculum, and this has led practititioners, who wish to keep abreast of the times, to return to the Medical Department in order to take special courses in the newer subjects. The frequency of requests for advanced work has induced the Faculty to admit medical graduates to any one or more of the regular courses, when such graduates give evidence of their ability to profit by such instruction.

While no graduate school in medicine has been established, ample facilities are presented for advanced study and research, and encouragement is given in every way possible to investiga

tors.

Clinical instruction is given in the Washington University Hospital, in the Washington University Hospital Dispensary, O'Fallon Dispensary, Mullanphy Hospital and the out-patient department of that institution, Bethesda Hospital and the eleemosynary institutions of the city. These hospitals afford an abundance of clinical material.

In the Locust street building is a Medical Library with sets of medical periodicals. All of the special laboratories possess libraries which are available for the use of graduate students.

The opportunities are numerous for clinical work combined with the studies in the several laboratories. For full details of the clinical instruction see the various divisions in the Details of the Plan of Instruction.

PROMOTION.

At the end of the First Year:

A student, candidate for the degree, will be promoted to the Second Year Class, if, having attended regularly the courses of the first year he has done the work satisfactorily, and has no more than one condition in chemistry and two in anatomy.

Conditions must, however, be made up by the end of the fourth semester.*

At the end of the Second Year:

A student will be promoted to the Third Year Class whose work throughout the First and Second Years has been generally satisfactory.

A student cannot enter the Third Year Class with a condition and he is allowed until the following fall to remove any he may have.*

At the end of the Third Year:

A student will be promoted to the Senior Class, if he has attended regularly the lectures, clinics and other required courses. of the Third Year; if he has received credit for the practical courses in Medicine and Surgery; if he has satisfactorily passed examinations in the lecture courses of Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics, and if he has been accredited with a majority of all other branches taught in this year. Conditions in completed courses must be removed in the fall before fourth year work is begun.*

At the end of the Senior Year a student will be graduated subject to the conditions named under "Requirements for Graduation."

*Examinations for removal of conditions will be held in the fall and spring. (See Calendar).

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REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION.

The candidate must be twenty-one years of age.

2. He must be of good moral character (which includes unexceptionable conduct while at this school).

3. He must have fulfilled the requirements for entrance.

4. He must have attended not less than four annual courses of medical instruction as a regular matriculated medical student, the last of which must have been in this school.

5. He must, by the first of April, have notified the Dean, in writing, of his intention to present himself as a candidate for the degree.

6. He must have discharged all indebtedness to the school. 7. He must have taken all obligatory courses offered here, or their equivalent, and have done satisfactory work in all of them.

At the end of the Fourth Year every student, who has fulfilled these requirements, will be recommended for the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

PRIZES.

Two "George F. Gill Prizes" are offered to the students of the school, viz.:-1. One prize of fifty dollars to be awarded at the end of the First Year to the member of the class who shall have made the highest grade in anatomical work.

At the discretion of the Professor of Anatomy other students of the First Year, who shall have done excellent work in Anatomy, may be awarded "Honorable Mention" at Commencement. The names of students thus chosen will be printed in the Announcement.

One prize of fifty dollars to be awarded to a member of the graduating class, of high general standing, who shall have done specially good work in the department of Diseases of Children.

The "Curtman prize" of twenty-five dollars will be awarded at the end of the First Year to the member of the class whe shall have made the highest grade in Chemistry.

At the discretion of the Professor of Chemistry other students of the First Year, who shall have done excellent work in Chemistry, may be awarded "Honorable Mention" at Commencement. The names of students thus chosen will be printed in the Announcement.

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRIZE.

For the purpose of encouraging an interest in scientific work on the part of the young men who have just been graduated, the Alumni Association of the Washington University Medical Department have decided to give each year, at the graduating exercises, a prize of fifty dollars to the graduate of the year before, who presents the best thesis on a medical or surgical subject.

TO THE ALUMNI OF 1906

THE PRIZE WILL BE GIVEN ON THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS:

1. While it is not desired to restrict the choice of the subject, the award will be made only to such papers as show evidence of original work. Ordinarily reports of interesting or unusual cases, unless they be included as part evidence in the consideration of some more general topic, would not meet the approval of the committee. In the same way literary summaries, unless they bring out some new and important facts, are not desired. Beside the fields of medicine, surgery and the specialties, original work may be done in anatomy, histology, physiology, physiological chemistry, pathology, hygiene and bacteriology.

2. The candidate's thesis must be signed with a nom-de-plume and placed in a sealed envelope. This, together with a sealed letter containing the nom-de-plume, name and address of the candidate, must be sent to the Registrar of the medical school not later than April 1st, 1907.

The committee reserves the right to publish any of the theses submitted in this contest, in the Bulletin of the Washington Univer

sity Medical Department. This will not preclude simultaneous publication elsewhere.

4. All inquiries concerning this contest should be directed to the Registrar of the medical school.

SCHOLARSHIPS.

The George F. Gill Scholarship, instituted in memory of the late Dr. George F. Gill, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children, entitles the holder to one year's free tuition.

ASSISTANTSHIPS.

Ten or twelve positions as laboratory assistants in the courses in Chemistry, Anatomy, Histology, Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathology, Bacteriology and Pharmacy are awarded to students of high standing, who have been in attendance for more than one year. The salary attached to these positions is never more than fifty dollars for each session, and is dependent upon the amount of work required of the student.

CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION.

By becoming members of this Association students are enabled to decrease their living expenses in many ways. Membership cards may be obtained at the School Book Store, a department of the Association, where students can obtain the textbooks and other supplies needed in the course. As the profits of this store are used in the development of a library for the Medical School, the faculty, instructors, students and all others in connection with this department of the University are urged to give it their patronage.

THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

This organization has for its chief aim the development of the religious life of the institution and secondarily to promote the interests of the students in every other way possible. The As