A MEDICAL CENTER

The efforts of the University to enlarge and consolidate its holdings on the property bounded by Dunster, Mt. Auburn, and Holyoke Streets bring within the not distant future the opportunity to establish an adequate College medical center. A medical service equipped with modern facilities and provided with a competent staff able to offer advice and attention at all times is the most needed unit in the Harvard organization.

The advantage of housing the medical department in a location more central than Wadsworth House is manifest. As the residential center of Harvard gravitates toward the Charles River it is highly desirable that subsidiary services be housed close by.

Harvard may well look to Yale and other colleges for examples of adequate medical service and facilities. The planning of a new building to house the College doctors and their equipment lies only in the province of experts. No pains ought to be spared to insure a thoroughly modern establishment and the University does well not to permit the prospect of subsidy to hurry its action unduly.

It is to be hoped that in the reorganization of the system more proper medical protection will be assured the civilian population of Harvard than is afforded under the present organization.