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Medical Faculty.

No one can teach a subject without

keeping in touch (more so than the busy practitioner)

with the latest knowledge on his subject. And we have

evidence that there is even a certain amount of something

like research, which is all to the good. We would

however give our opinion that there are not enough funds

at present for research in its full modern sense, which

of course involves training of a very special kind and

comparative freedom from teaching duties. If some

benefactor will endow such an activity there is an ample

field, but we do not think that the University as at

present constituted should expand in this direction.

46. The cost of the Medical Faculty for the month

of January 1937, taking the same basis of calculation

as in the case of Engineering, was just over $16,000.

The total number of students in the same month was 129.

47. We have given much consideration to the question

of the relationship between the three clinical Professors

and the Government Medical Service. The present

situation is in the nature of a compromise resulting from

discussions over a long period of years. The University

has sought in this, as in other matters, to retain

inviolate its independence of the Government. On the

other hand the teaching of the students must necessarily

be given in the wards of a hospital which is under

Government control.

48. This anomaly has in the past led to some

friction and the compromise of giving the clinical

Professors a certain number of wards and making them

theoretically Goverment servants by Gazette notice and

paysheet adjustment has accentuated the anomaly and is

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