Excerpt from History of the University of Cincinnati: A Municipal University Later on, in 1834-5, other subscriptions were obtained, and the college reorganized. Besides the regular academic courses departments of medi cine and of law were established. With the latter the Cincinnati Law School, founded the year previous, 1833, by John C. Wright, Timothy Walker, and Edward King, was combined. Without endowment, depend ent absolutely on tuition fees, its building burned in 1845, all departments passed out of existence within a few years except that of law, which still survives. As this venerable law school, founded at a time when there were but three others in the United States - Harvard, 1817; Yale, 1824; and the University of Virginia, 1825 - became ten years ago the College of Law of the University of Cincinnati, its early history has been recited in some detail. It forms one of the corner-stones of the broad foundation of pioneer institutions on which the new University rests. In the same year that the Cincinnati College was organized, the Medical College of Ohio received its charter, the prime mover of its inception being Dr. Daniel Drake. Notwithstanding the jealousy and bickerings of the medical profession of the city, the new institution opened its doors for the reception of students in 1820, its first faculty consisting of Dr. Drake, Dr. Jesse Smith, and Dr. Benjamin Bohrer, who were brought to Cincinnati from the east especially for the purpose of taking positions on the instructional staff of the newly formed school. A con temporary writer remarks that this is a process which, though sometimes successful, is often attended with disappointment! 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.