Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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r11 k c j »m i ;t. :J I 4- iJacuffLj1 • TIInMAS M FAFFS. M. ! ., In an of Medical Family ami Professor of obstetrics. WII.U M I . BKIOOS. M. D.. I'rnh'fsor of Surgery. THOMAS I.. M DDIN. M. I».. Profosor of ilu- Institutes ami Practice of Medicine ami of Clinical Medicine. WII.I.I AM I.. NICIIOL. M. I .. I’rof. vor of tin- Dis-ases of Woini'ii ami Children ami of Clinical Medicine. JOHN II. CAI.I.FNDAB. M. I». I ri(lessor of Phyaiologv ami Psychology. .1A 1FS M. SAKFoKD. M. D.. Professor of ('lioinislry in Medical Itepartment. THOMAS A. ATCHISON. M. P., Professor of Materia Medica. Thcrupciit ii and Stale Medicine. UIABLKS S. IiltlCOS. M. I».. Professor of Surgical Anatomy and Operative Surgery. oUVIl.I.K II. MEN KBS. M. I).. Professor of Anatoinv ami Histology. OKOUOK C. S. VAtiK, M. D. Professor of Diseases of tin- Kve and Kar. Cl I AKI.KS 1.. KVKS, M. I».. Demonstrator of Anatomy. P. II. WOOD. M. I .. Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. AMBHOSK MOKKlsoN, M.D.. I.ecturer on Kxperimental Physiology• Microscopy and Hygiene in Medical Department. P. A. ATCHISON, Jr.. lactiirer mi Medical Jurisprudence. PICK ADD Dol’d,AS, M. D„ Ijccturer on Pathological Anatomy. .IcillN WFSI.FY MADIHN. Ml'.. I.ecturer on Diseases of Prvgnaney. JOHN I.. WATKINS. M. D.. larcturer on Physical Diagnosis. MOSKS II. BONN Kit, M. I).. Lecturer on Fleet ro-theru| cutics. A. B. HAMSFY. M.D.. Leeturer on Venereal Diseases.

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rui-: roMK r. cxecntric, having Nashville and New York as foci. and including Wall street and the residence of a certain lair Nashvillian in its course. The students of the Law Department are the handsomest, most honorable and smartest hoys in the I'niversity. Thirty in number, assembled from the turpentine woods of North Carolina, the gorges of Hast Tennessee, the vine-clad hills of Alabama and the orange groves of Louisiana, on any school morning the may be seen collected in the lecture room, awaiting the advent of some beloved professor. With cigarette a smoke and heels tilted at a principal angle over the back of the nearest chair, the law student looks the picture of manly activity and acute intellect. Among its members the class of ’8(5-’S7 rejoices in the su- ........ dude, the best lighter, the highest kicker, the farthest jumper, the biggest blower. and the completes! fool of the I'niversity. We are in trepidation lost the last mentioned indi- vidual should try to crawl the “Comet’’for the allusion, but we here warn him that he would have a high climb. We would not induce the conclusion, however, that the class is composed, entirely of saints, we are forced, on the contrary, to admit that it is rather a motley crowd and that it possesses some kuotly, refly, Joyyy, ohitly individuals. In conclusion, we would say that though the boys are heartily opposed to the move, some of the authorities wish to have the Law Department taken to town. This inclination is superinduced by a fear lest the Theological students should stiller by the deleterious moral at- mosphere supposed to surround said department, and because the law students are too enter- prising and talented to be brought into competition with the literary.

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TT IK COMET. 2.r AloJiovjl jrtmcnt. HIS department is an adopted child, if child it he alter having passed twenty-live years of prosperous existence. At the birth of this child, October II. 1S 0, seven eminent physicians and surgeons oltieiatcd. These gentlemen were Drs. .Ino. M. Watson, A. II. Buchanan, W. K. Bowling, 0. K. Winston, llob’t M. Porter, .J. Berrien Lindslcy and W. T. Briggs. After twenty-live years had passed, by a paralytic stroke sutiered by the old University of Nashville, the child became a virtual orphan. At the organization of Vanderbilt Univer- fflsity, it was adopted, still retaining, however, the name of its ‘honored but invalid parent, so that now it is known as the Medical Department, of Vanderbilt University and the University of Nashville. It at present embraces ten chairs. Dr. Thos. - B. Maddin. Professor of the Practice of Medicine, is President of the Faculty. A birds-eye view of the Faculty would detect three well-marked divisions. The first division is composed of Professors Thos. B. Maddin, Thos. Mcnees, Thos. A. Atchison, W. T. Briggs. .1. M. Sallbrd, W. B. Nichol. These gentlemen have been connected with medical colleges since the callow days of youth, and art? doubtless booked among the one hundred forty and four thousand that will go up through much trial and tribulation. They are the white-haired veterans. Professor Maddin, measured by his own estimation or by his physical stature, would be a decided light weight;” but measured by the estimate his profession has put upon him, lie is a giant. With a voice contralto, but soft, and an eye that speaks of a great soul within, lie leads his class into the by-paths of his branch, and illuminates the dark passages that so many before him have failed to make plain. Professor Menecs occupies the chair of Obstetrics, lie was built for a statesman. His oratory, his political ability and magnetic presence forced him for two years to abandon his profession and occupy a seat in the Confederate Congress. But after the late unpleasant- ness” had shown that we needed only one Congress in this country, he returned to his first love, after his second had been loved and lost. As executive ollicer, as teacher, as father to the boys, his equal is rarely met. Professor Atchison tills the, chair of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and tills it full. Ibi is the wittiest and weightiest member of the Faculty. It seems strange that such an oak should spring from the black-jack region of Kentucky. Coming to Nashville in the prime of life, and taking a stand at the head of his profession, lie was at once o lie red the chair which lie now occupies, and which, perhaps, will never be so well tilled again.