Statement : a statement of the facts connected with the late re-organization of the faculty of the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College : together with a documentary history of said department, from its origin to the present time.

  • Wiltbank, John, 1806-1860.
Date:
[1856?]
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Credit: Statement : a statement of the facts connected with the late re-organization of the faculty of the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College : together with a documentary history of said department, from its origin to the present time. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Two others (the late Drs. Grant and Henry S. Patterson,) have passed away, and are no more—and not only we, who have been bound to them by enduring ties, but the profession, and the community, have in memory the witness of their faithfulness and their noble talents, all consecrated to the service of this institution. Out of these, the hard earned results of their, and our, toils and talents,—we, and their representatives, have by some dexterous trick been meanly wronged, and it would seem to be due alike, to their memory, to our reputations, to the Trustees and Alumni of the Institution, that by some simple statement of the facts, we should let the truth be known. To this duty, without further introduction, we shall at once address ourselves. On the 7th March, 1832, the legislature gave corporate form and character to a pre-existing Literary and Scientific Insti- tution in Gettysburg, Adams County, in this Commonwealth, known by the name of Gettysburg Gymnasium. In the pre- amble to that Act, they say, that the inducing reason to the incorporation of said Gymnasium is, that it is resorted to by a large number of young men from different portions of this State and elsewhere, and promises to exert a salutary influence in advancing the cause of liberal education, particularly among the German portion of our fellow-citizens. The Act then proceeds to provide, that said Gymnasium shall be Erected into a College, (Sec. 2.) and that the style and title of said College shall be Pennsylvania College of Gettysburg, and that it shall be under the management, direction and government of ail the subscribers to the funds of said institution, by whose pri- vate contributions the said funds have been raised, and its present Edifice erected. It then provides that those persons shall be a body politic and corporate by the name of The patrons of Pennsylvania College, in Gettysburg in the County of Adams;' and by subsequent sections, they are empowered in the manner prescribed in the Act to govern said College, and to elect the Principal and Professors of said College, and to exercise all such powers, authorities and jurisdictions as are customary in other Colleges within this Commonwealth, and amon£