used by the College, had been deeply in debt for years, and that no guarantee was forthcoming that it could be maintained without expense to the state. In obeying the law, the Board would be in the position of assuming the burdens without receiving the benefits contemplated by the act. These reasons rather than a desire to keep the school accounted for the action taken.
The new faculty appointees took part in the "removal" fight as their initial activity in the University. The struggle moved through the legislative halls to the Supreme Court, and at last back to the Regents, where the decision was final.
Strangely enough, the final years of the School were comparatively free from controversy. Periodically, as new appropriations were being considered, the proponents of homeopathy saw to it that the rider was included in the act as finally passed. In 1921 the legislature passed a resolution requesting the Regents to consolidate the two medical schools for reasons of economy. The Board complied promptly, in 1922 (R.P., 1920-23, pp. 373-74), with the result that the teaching of homeopathy became University history.
From 1875 to 1922 the deanship of the College was conferred upon five men: Samuel A. Jones, 1875-78, Edward Carroll Franklin (M.D. University of New York '46), 1878-83, Thomas Pardon Wilson (M.D. Western Homeopathic College [Cleveland] '57), 1883-85, Henry Lorenz Obetz (M.D. Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland '74), 1885-95, and Wilbert B. Hinsdale, 1895-1922. Beginning with two departments — that of the theory and practice of medicine and that of materia medica — the institution gradually expanded, until, in 1909, all the branches of clinical medicine were taught in separate departments.
The Department of Surgery, organized in 1876, was headed by John C. Morgan. He was followed by Dr. James G. Gilchrist, 1876-78; Edward C. Franklin, 1880-83; Henry L. Obetz, 1883-95; Oscar Le Seure ('73m, M.D. Bellevue Hospital Medical College '74), 1895-1900; Dean Tyler Smith (Nebraska '87, M.D. Chicago Homeopathic Medical College '89, M.S. hon. Michigan '14), 1901-14; and Hugh McDowell Beebe ('07h), 1914-22. The separate Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics was also organized in 1876, with Dr. Frank Augustus Rockwith (M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons [N. Y.]) as head. He held this position for one year. Newton Baldwin ('75m) was appointed in 1883 and served two years; James Craven Wood ('79h, A.M. Ohio Wesleyan '91) served in the years 1885-93; Maurice Patterson Hunt (M.D. Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland '79), 1893-95; Myron Holly Parmalee (M.D. Hahnemann Medical College [Chicago] '70), 1895-97; Claudius Bligh Kinyon (Illinois State Normal University '76, M.D. Chicago Homeopathic Medical College '78), 1897-1918; Theron Grover Yeomans ('09h), 1918-20; and Scott Clark Runnels (M.D. Indiana '07, '08h), 1920-22.
The Department of Materia Medica, organized by Samuel Jones, maintained a high degree of excellence. This department was served in turn by Jones, in the period 1875-80, by Henry C. Allen (M.D. Western Homeopathic College [Cleveland] '61), 1880-84; by Allen Corson Cowperthwaite (M.D. Hahnemann Medical College '69, Ph.D. Central University of Iowa '76, LL.D. Shurtleff '88), 1884-85; by Hugo Emil Rudolph Arndt (M.D. Western Homeopathic College [Cleveland] '69), 1885-89; by Charles Samuel Mack (Harvard '79, M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons [N. Y.]
