Vanderbilt University - Commodore Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Page twenty-nine was fffmessewreer-A-We fefeeeer-Waimea-eww-1 ras 4 . - - l 4fffx ?'5 f'L'15if2' ti A fe, 923 -4' - h e M KJ 2556? S, Q H .B A:afamwwmpwmaama.aQ.ma:msfsmuemwfmma'.am Q WW ,gf .JM 2 'We 4 KqZxw1'ws,,.,-,-:m,,.,m.,:,..as ,. H, , W t History of the Senior Medical Class was a cloudy morning for maybe the sun just couldn't shine through the smokey when we got off the car ' at the. South Campus. We were soon greeted by Sam, who wanted to haul our trunks. He was a psy- ? QQ cholofist. I-Ie called us Doctor,,' and at once we became iniiated with importance and handed over our trunk checks. L14 53 We settled the room-mate and boarding-house question, which wound up the preliminaries. Then we were ready for the real encounter. The first morning of work we went up to the anatomy laboratory. Here we met the person with whom we were to spend four hours a day for five months, in such intimate association that we were to know him better than we had ever known anyone before, and who was seldom out of our thoughts during the whole year. Even now if a memory of him, or her, seems to be growing dim we turn to our anatomy book to freshen it again. This favored individua-l was our stiff, or, as the professors say, cadaver. This year was a distressingly novel revelation of the meaning of the word work. Freshmen in medical school are never hazed nowg upperclassmen look on them with a kind of condescending pity. We ate with an open fgreasyl book by our plateg we slept with a box of bones by our bed, and an anatomy book under our pillow. We never went anywhere. Our Thanksgiving holiday was as accurately so called as is chocolate blanc mange, afternoon matinees, or white shoe- blacking. We all cut class one afternoon to see The Birth of a Nation, and are still regretting the consequences. When the year was over we wondered how we did it, and felt a deep compassion for the poor misguided pre meds. Our Sophomore year was somewhat of an improvement. We got a Sunday off occasionally, and it is said that one of our members went to a dance. We began to feel our knowledge, too. We delighted in explaining things to the Freshmen, and we called the gristle in our steak ligamentum nuchae, just as the Freshmen on the West Campus ask us to pass the sodium chloride. It was this year that the Angel of Discord, class politics, was brought in among us, as a complete surprise to a little less than half. It continued to disturb the harmony at election time for two years, with the usual line of complaints from the faction whose plans did not materialize. We hope that other classes will not make the same mistake. In the Sophomore year we lost Dudenbostelle, but acquired Freiburg. The Junior year started out with two new men. These were Shofner, who had been doing teaching and laboratory work here, and Caire, from Tulane. We are probably a shade better off for having these two men. Excepting the above-mentioned politics, one of the big questions before us this year was summer school, to enable us to finish sooner and get into the army. We made quite an agitation to obtain the change, and sent petitions to the faculty,

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SHOFNER, NATHANIEL S1-:1-ioiw, BA., M.D. B 9 H, A K K MT. PLEASANT, TENN . Dramatic Club '14-'19g President Dramatic Club '16-'19: Glee Club' '16-'1Sg Manager Glee Club '17-'1S3 Owl Clubg Commodore Club: Honor Committee '14-'15g Commodore Rep- resentative 'M-'15p President Y. M. C. A. '18- '19, Commodore Board '17-'1Sg Publication Board '18-'19g Calumet Club: 'Editor-in-Chief Hustler '17-'1S: South Campus Editor of Commodore '18-'19, THOMAS, DANIEL REI-:s, M.D. E N. IIIX4 l LAFAYETTE, COLO. Honor Committee Class '17-'18i Secretary and Treasurer Class '1S-'19: Witherspoon Club: Commodore Club. H'E.1iBERfr, '1?iMimeg M'.'D. ' AM, 1 A ' FR'AN14LiN,' TENN., - Q, ' Owl Club '15-'IGQQQ Commodore ,Board f9I6'.: Commodore Representative '15- 1,65:fpgn-1-191. lenzic Council 1'6'-'17-f-183 'Commodore Club, '18-'19s Witherspoon I-Club '19, . l A . ...l VJALTER, ,EARIQE CHNS., M. D., IPX l ROCK PORT, Mo. V E Witherspoon Club. WHITE, DAPHNEY EARL, MDL . or B Ir, qw K X MONTlCELLO, ARK. ' Commodore Band '15-516-'1-75 Honorary Medi cal Fraternity. K if A

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espeee Q mmo one- e it but it was not the policy of the American Medical Association to have summer sessions, so the schedule was not changed. By this time we were beginning to assume a little of the dignity of the profession. We saw patients and studied cases, and began to outgrow some of the all-inclusive qualities of our learning. We began to broaden out a little, and went to a show occasionallyg and it is rumored that White and Robinson joined a Sunday School class. - When we reported for work at the beginning of the Senior year something happened to make us feel that maybe We were of some use in the world after all. The epidemic of inlluenza at the powder plant was getting to be of dangerous extent, and the authorities there asked for medical aid. We were given the opportunity to volunteer, so most of us went out and stayed ten days. Each man who went had experiences which will live always in his memory. The fifteen of us who had internships at hospitals during this year learned again to appreciate the value of time in old Freshman style. Having a duty for every minute, though much against the natural inclinations of most of us, has taught us a lesson which might mean the difference between a mediocre career of lazy content and a life of positive and aggressive activity. Some of us will make a successg some of us will notg but however that might be, we all have had the same opportunity to follow the fine examples of the picked men who have taught us. We have acquired a love and respect for the art of medicine, and a scientific spirit that will not rest, but will urge us on To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bounds of human thoughtf' f , , QL 1 N -Q an .1 l f, i .Y , 747 - ail s f gf iiwti-E JIX X vi E X ' rr' fi-'U 4 :X f -mf-nz Js, Page thirty