Harvard School of Medicine - Aesculapiad Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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NATHAN MARSH PUSEY President Harvard University No calling is more demanding, no service more rewarding than that of medicine. Few individuals come to grips so intimately and constantly with the fundamental problems of living as does the physicians. For the physician the secrets of life are laid bare in all their uncompromising harshness. Pain, fear, defeat, courage, bewilderment, spiritual victory - all these things the physician sees in his fellow man in a way given to few of us. Of all scientists he is the one most cognizant of the inspiring difference between cell and soul. You of the Class of 1964 leave Harvard this spring to take up lives which will be full beyond the power of man's imagination a generation ago. Never have medicine and health held so high a place in the minds of people the world around. Never has the promise of a better life with the help of medicine been brighter. Yet you, the future practitioners and teachers, wiIl.find your share of the pressures, alarms, and long demanding hours which your predecessors shared. If one personal hope of mine can go with you as you leave the Quadrangle, it is that you find in your future work that deeper understanding of man which transcends the mere practice of your chosen profession. And may you in so doing add your own share, however small, to the advancement of a profession which ennobles life itself. Harvard's best wishes go with you! QQ .ff

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GEORGE PACKER BERRY Dean, Harvard Medical School To the Classes of 1964 - The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient. As Francis Peabody explained so perceptively in i927 in his Gay Lecture upon Medical Ethics at the Medical School, you have been learning to appreciate that caring for the patient is as much a matter of the head as of the heart. During four long years you have been coming to see more and more clearly that the physician's capacity to deal ettectively with his patients' ills must be firmly rooted in the medical sciences if disease is to be comprehended in pathophysio- logical terms. Simultaneously, you have been coming to see that the difficult task of acquiring an adequate scientific foundation does not obliterate the physician's ability to express sympathy and compassion for his Patients while retaining his perspective and obiectivity. ln short, you have been learning that the science and art of medicine are complementary and reinforcing, not antagonistic or mutually exclusive - that the good physician combines the ancient art of the healer and the precision of the modern scientist. As you embark upon your lifelong voyages in the continuing pursuit of knowl- edge to the end that the care you can give your patients will be ever better, may the greatest of life's satisfactions be yours. George Packer Berry, M.D. Dean ofthe Faculty of Medicine I