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DR. WILLIAM N. PARKINSON. Dean and Professor of Clinical Surgery B.S.. M.D., M.Sc. (Med.), P.A.C.S., LL.D.
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Improvements had been made each year. The Philadelphia Dental College was acquired and became a part of Temple College. Some of our work v as then transferred to the Dental Buildings. Later the college become a university. The Samaritan Hospital was enlarged and some new classrooms were added. Then came word that the State Board of Medical Examiners would no longer recognize the Night School after those already entered had graduated. The Day School was organized with new teachers in some departments. Some of the Night students shifted over to the Day School but for most of us this was financially impossible. It was either finish at night or not at all, so we finished as we started—with the owls. We v ere critical and disappointed at the passing of the Night School. One's vision is limited when standing on the level in midst of the crowd but from the height of the mountain the perspective changes. We had received the best obtainable at that time, a big improvement over the original methods of obtaining a medical education. See THE COUNTRY DOCTOR for details. When we consider the various steps in the development of our School up to what we have today, who can fail to honor those who have taken their responsibilities seriously and acted accordingly? Dr. Babcock, with his inexhaustible energy, his restrained laugh and clear logic, taught us surgery. Dr. Samuel Wolf, from the Pennsylvania Dutch country, mixed his medicine with the accent. Dr. Wilmer Krusen and Dr. Frank Hammond. the Damon and Pythias with gynecology, and Dr. J. C. Applegate, who insisted on Edgar's Obstetrics as a text book, talked about the ladies. There were many others who also contributed their time and talents helping to perpetuate the Oath of Hippocrates. Lack of space prevents us from mentioning them all. The student body was on earnest group. Each had a definite ambition and many were the difficulties which had to be solved. All were employed during the day earning a living and some supporting a family. In those days a ten-hour day and sixty-hour week was the rule for the working man. Some had easy jobs in an office where fifty-five hours usually constituted a week's work. Then three hours of class each night, six nights a week, followed with study after 10:00 p.m. and on trolley cars and at times over the meal table. Four and a half to five hours was the average for sleep. This was the average student's schedule. Preserve these musings of the Old Grad of thirty-five years ago. Take a careful inventory of what you enjoy today and then look back over it in another thirty-five years and wonder how those old timers of 1942 were ever able to make out with such primitive equipment and limited or false views of the subject of health and disease. Physiological chemistry will have solved many of our most stubborn problems of today—perhaps malignant growths, hypertension and cardiac diseases. My chin is out in plain view but why should I worry? Thirty-five years from now who will be so unkind as to dig up my old decoying mandible to take a punch at it? .............and Aoy after reviewing the Jemplc VY}edica( Schoo N ij.edtenj.eary we he jin the iforij of Jentpde YJdJedicad School in 1942 lj predentinj............
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