Excerpt from The Creighton University Bulletin, July 1915, Vol. 7: Announcement of the College of Medicine, 1915-1916 On account of financial disturbances which were then sweeping over the country the erection of the new building was postponed from time to time, but was finally completed in the summer of 1896. The school opened with a three years' course, the popular and prevailing course at that time in medical colleges of this country; but in 1894 the college extended its course to four years, being the first school west of the Missouri River to require four years of study as a condition to a medical degree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.