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

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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

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s fllll e. .-w M4 . is. W, ms , . rg as ss Es is is s v s s m -:J E. .ya V 1 Vw T my if f, Samuel A. Crooks, Professor of Gross Anatomy and poet-philosopher, pauses to read a few lines of verse before the 7:00 A.M. lecture GRHSS A Allllll Blue overalls are proper things For brawny men and brave, They make the purple clocks of kings Seem vestments of a slave. -Thomas Russell Shelton lt's the first session in gross anatomy. An unob- trusive figure in blue overalls saunters quietly into the crowded amphitheatre. He sits down on the ce- ment steps, and waits. As the class bell rings he isx arises and leisurely walks to the desk. He does not launch immediately into anatomy but digresses to leave with his new students part of his simple philos- ophy of living. Thus Dr. Samuel A. Crooks introduces himself. Far longer than his students remember the inser- tions of the sacrospinalis and the ossification of the metacarpals, will Dr. Crooks be remembered for his