Jefferson Medical College - Clinic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Started in a small theatre as its first building the College has gradually grown until at present its College Building, its Laboratory Building and its two hospitals represent several millions of dollars. It has taught more men the science and art of medicine than any other American institution in the same space of time. It has benefited greatly by reason of the fact that its Board of 'Trustees are not only active in its affairs but are able to devote all their energies to its success rather than to several departments of which medicine is but one. From first to last it has recognized that students should be capable of being good physicians as well as scientific men in the sense of investigative spirit. NEW AMPHITHEATRE Over the College doorway are the words Db luboribzu onmia 1'67llf11l1f,n the Gods sell all things to those that labor and the students well know that the Gods do not give all things to those that labor but learn that they sell all things, or, in other words, they cannot graduate and they will not succeed in their profession unless they appreciate that the price of success in life is work. The jefferson Medical College today is endeavoring to produce men whose work the Gods will be glad to buy and it stands in the vestibule of its second century with well-tilled fields behind it and with the full assurance that its students of today and the future will strive to uphold its glory and its notable career. Page Tu'e11ly-hee

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for such punishment. I know what became of Atlee, but I have never heard whether the horses recovered or were sent to the boneyard. The reason for this ride, which was so strenuous, was that the Trustees of the Jefferson College of Canonsburg, had acceded to a request that they es- tablish a medical department in Philadelphia and those opposed to this plan insisted that said College under its charter had no right to confer the degree of M. D. at a point so far away from its direct control. To remove all difficulty an enabling act by the legislature of the state was needful and this McClellan OLD AMPHITHEATRE obtained. It was greatly needed not only for obvious reasons but because instruc- tion had been given for the scholastic year and the time had actually gone by when degrees should be conferred upon the students, it being the custom in the existing medical schools to confer the degree in March. By reason of McClellan's activity the enabling :ICI was passed and signed by the governor on April 7th and Commencement occurred on April 14, 1826. One can imagine the anxiety of the jefferson Medical College Faculty which had taught medical students and then found that perchance they could not be graduated. I imagine that the students were even more anxious. From 1825 to the present time it may be said that the jefferson Medical College, which some years later got its own charter and became independent of the institution at Canonsburg, has so to speak been imbued with the vigor of its founder and his associates. It has sent out thousands of medical men, many of whom attained positions which were not only enviable among their con- temporaries, but whose names form part of the permanent history of American Medicine. Marion Sims, Emmett, Gross the father and Gross the son, S. Weir Mitchell and jacob M. DaCosta may be named among these. Page Twefzry-fofzr

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