Medical School Hospital Delayed.

Judge L. B. Colt, of the United States Circuit Court, recently handed down a decision sustaining the defendants in the case of Herbert F. Brigham vs. Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, holding that the gift of $5,000,000 by Peter Bent Brigham for the establishment of a hospital is valid. Until it is definitely known whether the decision will be appealed, nothing will be done towards building the Hospital, although the plans for it have already been drawn by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge.

The Brigham Hospital is the largest of the proposed institutions to be affiliated with the new Harvard Medical School. It has been planned by the trustees to erect an elaborate set of buildings on a section of the large lot of land upon which the Medical School is being built. The desired plot has a frontage of 945 feet on Huntington avenue and an option upon it has been secured from the Corporation.