Commencement Exercises of the Chicago Medical College, Medical Department of the Northwestern University.

Mr. Editor:  —While attending the Thirtieth Annual Commencement Exercises of the above-named college, on the 26th of March, 1889, I noted the following items that will be of more or less interest to your readers in all parts of the country. The college was organized on the basis of a strictly graded system of medical education, and requires a fair standard of preliminary education for admission, three full years of medical study, including three annual courses of medical college instruction of not less than six months each, with laboratory and hospital clinical attendance two college courses. During the college year just closed the classes in attendance numbered as follows: 1st year class 79; 2d year class 52; 3d year class 51; making a total of 182.After music, and the opening prayer by Rev. Joseph Cummings, D.D., L.L.D., President of the University, the Dean of the medical faculty announced the