Purdue University. On September 25, 1905, the trustees of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons voted to suspend operations and to transfer the students, alumni, personal property, and funds of the college to the Purdue School of Medicine. Later on October 2, the Fort Wayne College of Medicine voted to likewise merge with the Purdue School of Medicine and transfer personnel and equipment to Indianapolis. The Purdue School of Medicine operated out of the former Medical College of Indiana's facilities on Senate Avenue in Indianapolis. The building that housed the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons at 212 North Senate Avenue was sold. In May 1906, 122 students received medical degrees from Purdue University and successfully passed the examination of the State Board of Medical Registration. In the spring of 1907, Purdue graduated 68 men and four women; in that class was Arett C. Arnett, a physician who helped establish a Lafayette clinic in 1922 later known as Arnett Clinic and today known as Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital. The founding of Purdue's medical school triggered a debate over which state university, IU or Purdue, had the legal authority to establish a state-supported, four-year medical school in Indianapolis. IU believed that under a legislative act approved on February 15, 1838, it had the authorization alone to provide state-supported instruction in medicine, but the development of a medical school was delayed due to a lack of sufficient funding. The building that was sold and housed the former Central College of Physicians and Surgeons would eventually come under the ownership of IU supporters, who would establish the State College of Physicians and Surgeons there in 1906. This college offered clinical instructions to IU Bloomington's third- and fourth-year medical students. The State College of Physicians and Surgeons enrolled 109 students in September 1906. In August 1907 the IU board of trustees agreed to a merger of the IU School of Medicine in Bloomington with the State College of Physicians and Surgeons in Indianapolis but agreed to take financial responsibility for only the school's facilities in Monroe County (Bloomington). The first two years of training continued at Bloomington and the final two years of clinical training were held at the State College of Physicians and Surgeons in Indianapolis, with a doctor of medicine (MD) degree conferred by Indiana University. Incorporation of Purdue and move to Indianapolis To resolve their ongoing dispute, IU and