Scholarship pervades all recognized principles of graduate education, Dean N. Paul Hudson of the Ohio State university graduate school said here Friday night.
Speaking at Charity hospital before a conference of deans of Southern graduate and medical schools, sponsored by Tulane university, Dean Hudson said "the student, faculty, graduate school, or university, which fails in scholarship fails in graduate education,
"Recognition of scholarship qualifies ;the department of instruction to condition a program of graduate study no matter what its subject is."
The university is highly essential to the medical graduate program, Dean Hudson added. The university, lie said, is commonly defined as A*a coin muni* ty of scholars.1'
"If some members of the faculty do not care to commune and a department does not agree to being a member of the intellectual community, then the advantages of being in a university are lost,v he said.
"Graduate experience in research should be such as to provide training and interest rather than research for the sole purpose of discovery. Inasmuch as the attitude of investigation is fostered for a future and continued intellectual career, so is the experience in research in the graduate school a training rather than an end in itself."
Earlier in the day at Tulane's Howard-Tilton Memorial libra* ry, a system of rotating graduate medical students among universities which offer better specialized courses was advocated by Dr. Morris F. Shaffer, of the Tulane school of medicine.
The Tulane bacteriologist told the regional conference that medical schools often have one or two departments which are outstanding.
"Under the rotation system, a graduate student of a particular specialty will be able to study in departments with better facilities, insuring more fully the goal of all — a better * graduate student," he said.
Under this, plan, he emphasized, the students would receive their degr e e s from the institution where they began their study.
Dr. Charles M. Goss of the Louisiana State university medical school told the group that the number ot anatomy teach* ers will, have to be doubled in the next 10 years if the field is to continue on its present level.
