According to present calculations the new wing of Vanderbilt Hall, chief residential unit of the Medical School, which is now under construction, will be completed and ready for occupancy by next fall. The addition will contain between 50 and 60 rooms.

In one corner of this building there will be a suite for a master, dean, or member of the faculty, who is to live with the students not as a disciplinarian, but as a companion and supervisor. It is planned to use the addition chiefly for graduate medical students and public health students.

Vanderbilt a Club

It has also been announced that Vanderbilt Hall has been this year for the first time arranged on a club basis. This system, called the Vanderbilt Club, is somewhat comparable to the plan of the Harvard Union, in that the dues are $10 per year, and certain privileges are received in return. All members of the Medical School are eligible for membership, and they receive both the use of the dining hall, and of the new library. Members not living in Vanderbilt Hall get locker accommodations free of charge.

Another reform which is being tried at the Medical School this fall is the reorganizing of third year teaching. One of the greatest faults heretofore has been the continual moving about of the third year instructors. To improve the situation, it has been arranged to have longer assignments for each man to one hospital, in order that the work of the third year may be coordinated.