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this direction by offering free medical
instructions to so large a body of young
men, who can serve the Commonwealth more
usefully in other capacities.

As already intimated the consum-
mation of this scheme will bring the profess-
ion in Virginia into great discredit with the
leading minds in the medical fraternity
all over the U. States. One in two medical
Colleges has attempted to cheapen medi-
cal education in this way, and has en-
countered genderal conemnation, for it
has invariably been found that this is only
the entering [urge?] for other and less repu-
table ways of cheapening the process of
manufacturing doctors. A lowering of
the standard for graduation always fol-
lows this over-crowding of the schools wil im-
perfectly educated students.

As the number of [these?] students thus
proposed to be introduced into the Richmond
Medical College, to be paid for by the State,
is fully [apeal?] to the maximum which ought