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Eight professors and seventy-five students of the St. Louis College of physicians have revolted. The college was started five years ago under the patronage of several influential democratic politicians. The attempt to combine pathology and politics has been unsuccessful from the beginning, and while the Dean of the faculty, Dr. Bauer, and Dr. Hazard, a medical member of the Executive Committee, have drawn their salaries regularly, the other professors have been put off from time to time with unwritten promises to pay. This, together with a lordly way the directors had of disregarding any request made by the faculty or students, has led to open revolt. Yesterday eight of the professors and all the students struck, and today the faculty consists if three doctors and five students, whom they have persuaded to return to their studies. The college is burdened with a debt of $7,000 and unless some compromise is reached within a day or two the institution will go under. The trouble is aggravated by the fact that both the president and vice-president of the college are at present in Washington.

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