Loma Linda University - Priorities Yearbook (Loma Linda, CA)

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Of joyous days ye bring the blissful visioizg The dear, familiar ploimtoms rise again. -GOETHE A M 71 ff?'i .,f Anatomy Building a church for the,.townspeople and workers. The sides of the hill are green with shrubs and lawn. Near the base of the hill, overreached by towering eucalypti, is Kate Lindsay Hall, home for the nursing students. Across the road from the hill is a large quadrangle of academic buildings. A good deal of taste has been used in the arrangement of the campus. The buildings are all modern and well-equipped. One is tempted to suspect God of favoritism, for the Loma Linda campus is unusually lovely, and the buildings new. The unmarried student lives in Daniells Hall, a large dormitory completed during the early part of the war. He is fortunate, for his room is spacious and planned for convenient living. The student with a family has a different problem before him, for hous- ing is at a premium, often just not attainable, and in general not too satisfactory once possessed. The College of Medical Evangelists was founded at Loma Linda. It was hoped that the necessary clinical experience for the student might be provided at the San Bernardino County Hospital. Facilities here did 1: x. Pathology Building not prove adequate, however, and in 1914, with much trepidation and after much soul-searching, a dis- pensary was opened in an old store building near the Boyle Heights district of Los Angeles. Since that time the College has been in two divisions. At Loma Linda the medic studies the basic medical sciences. It has been customary to refer to the Loma Linda division as the farm. There is nothing derogatory in the term, rather nostalgia. For, while the medic looks forward to the city and enioys the clinical aspects of his training, he finds city life harried and misses the beautiful surroundings and the peaceful, quiet days of his soiourn at Loma-Linda. When the premedical student gets his acceptance he is likely to feel pretty cocky. Humility somehow isn't natural. For the first time in his life he has been suc- cessful in competition for a major prize. There aren't enough medical schools to train all 'who apply, and if the student is thoughtful he probably is unable to find in himself any superior virtue that will explain why he was chosen in preference to another. 15

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The student's first day of classes is not a series of brief sessions in which the purposes of the courses are explained and assignments made. Rather he takes pages of notes from lecturers who presuppose he has already studied the first fifty pages of each text. And indeed they were assigned, he finds, as he consults the mimeographed sheets which appear in his mailbox. New are the steep amphitheatres which permit front-row vision for nearly a hundred students. New are the ten-dollar textbooks. With conspicuous pride he carries home his Gray's Anatomy by the handles of its canvas case. He makes out a schedule of tests and finds nearly every evening will be spent in dread of the morning. New is everything in the way it is geared to help him make the best 'use of his time. Assistants perform routine and repetitive work before he arrives in the laboratory. Few lecturers indulge in platitudes, and the student crowds himself to maximum efficiency at taking notes. He finds even small facts important and a general knowledge of the subiect not acceptable. He learns what it is to worry lest he flunk out. As you read further, the pictures you see and words you read will supply only sugar-coating for a uniformly difficult and sometimes bitter struggle. Know that the, pleasant teachers have been severe, the smiling students grim, and the placid faces frightened. Know, too, that we wouldn't trade places with anyone else in the world. For we're going to be physicians. 5 ..,. 1 The first text to buy is Gray's Anatomy at twelve-titty Chester C. Fink, Registrar of the Loma Linda Division, rechecks a 1.5 grade-point average