Bibliographic record
Abstract
Volume i of McGill Medicine, The First Half Century, 1829-1885, described the evolution of medical teaching at McGill University.Volume 2, continues the narrative for the second half century ending in 1936, which coincides with the retirement of Charles Ferdinand Martin, the Faculty of Medicine's first full-time dean.Medical teaching at McGill began on 29 June 182.9,but its origins can be traced back to 1801 when the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning was established to promote Protestant education in Lower Canada.The Royal Institution languished for ten years until James McGill, who had made a fortune in the fur trade, bequeathed £10,000 and his country estate, Burnside, to found a college bearing his name.His wife's family did not agree with this decision, so when he died in 1813, his bequest was contested by her son, Francis Desrivieres, who wanted the money and the estate.This delayed the implementation of James McGilPs plans for sixteen years.While a prolonged battle over the McGill bequest moved through the British law courts at a slug's pace, the War of 1812 with the United States ended in 1815.After the war a flood of immigrants, mainly from the United Kingdom, arrived in Canada.Most of them landed in Quebec or Montreal, often in the late fall.Had they arrived earlier, many would have gone to the countryside to seek work.The severe winter weather, an agricultural slowdown caused by drought, and the predominance of French language in the countryside resulted in many of those unfortunate people remaining in the cities.Their economic situation was precarious,
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.355 | 0.125 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".