The Royal Medical Society To-day

Abstract

We have often heard that our University, with its paucity of halls of residence and common rooms used for the right purpose, is fast developing the atmosphere of a huge and impersonal technical college. The undergraduate, his brain dulled by the heavy aroma of haddock, emerges each morning from his “digs”. He returns in the early evening to decipher a sheaf of laboriously scribbled notes that might even be headed by the “good morning, ladies and gentlemen” with which his lecturer aroused him from complete coma into the semi-conscious state in which the rest of his day is spent. He has contributed nothing to, and has gained nothing from his day at the “University.”