Chicago School of Medicine and Surgery - Medicos Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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SENIORS T , Glass iiafturp Un the evening of the 26th of September, nineteen thirteen, at eight P.M., we found the amphitheatre of the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery all in a glow. And why? because that evening was the opening of a new college year. There could be seen a hundred or more new faces of men and women who had come to this place from all parts of the globe, to begin a new life consisting of four years ofstudy, worry and weariness. A Leaving fathers, mothers and perhaps sweethearts behind, they assembled here that night prepared to face and become introduced to a new home for four years. After the orchestra had finished playing, The Old' Folks at Horne,'-' and our Dean had announced the program for the following day, we departed to our rooms- wondering what the future had in store for us.' A We assembled the next day at nine o'clock with that class of Sophomores, who found out we were Fresh and Men. Even though we did look big and green, they soon after felt our strength on the stairway to Room Twelve, also on another occasion when one of those big, fat Sophs'7 ventured into one of our class rooms and, because of his superior air, was cast out on his home plate by one of our stalwart classmen. In a few weeks the officers of the class were .elected without much competition for we were glad to have someone lead us in this new environment. The semester went quickly by and before weknew what had happened, we were on our way for Christmas Vacation, to tell those left behind of Wonderful Chicago. But upon our return the first, semester exams confronted us. Oh l-fbut those faces. Everybody looked as tho the end of the world were near at hand, mourning and black crepe were the only things which could be seen about. just as rapidly as the semester came to a close, just so quickly did the exams end and once more 'cbloy Reigned Supremefi It always seems to be the way of the world, that when all is bright and happy, along comes Gloom7' to darken everything. By some new ruling, put into effect regarding the entrance require- ments of medical students, an awful catastrophe befell this class. After careful investigation of our school, what did we see to our sorrow,-Alas! thirty-five or more of our classmates had been slain by the State axe, ne'er to return again. Toward the end of the first year our class saw it fitting to celebrate our first anniversary and planned to do so by becoming athletes and dancers. We took off one afternoon for baseball. Then came the big affair '5The Dance. It took pretty near a week to 'ground upv the class after the dance and then our return- what did we find? Why, the faculty became so generous and kind to us that they increased our yearis course a week or two more, but as luck happened Dr. Wyneken and Dr. Roe saw our sorrowful and regretful faces, took pity so the sentence was Page I00

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,H W ,,,, ,,,, W- ,.-uxl,-agua..- -' '.?-iff-: SENIORS lifted. After the exams our friends and mates, with whom we spent our first year, departed to the north, south, east, and west to return to ones more dearer to them. Summer vacation was spent and the next September found our classmates returning for their second lap 'in the race. Nfy, how swollen and blown up we all looked. The sidewalks seemed hardly wide enough to let us pass, so the school did away with our fenced inn Campus in front and widened the sidewalks. There was a reason for the swelling-we were Sophomores and that explained all. The opening night belonged to us and we did not hesitate to take a seat-or be afraid to sit down in the amphitheatre. School began the next day and it was easier to get back to work once more. During the first semester we again tried our athletic skill in basket ball and several of our men fell wounded in the fray-one with a sprained ankle who claimed every- thing had become black in front of his eyes and I did not blame him either when I looked at the size of the fellow who fell on him. if The exams were on hand and soon passed over. Then the second semester confronted us. We thought we had better not try any more of our talent at danc- ing so we decided not to celebrate the second anniversary of our existence. What we did was to play base ball for the Championship, of the City but we lost one run which was due to Frank Reinsch, who did not run fast enough in the field because he had on a black sweater with a yellow band. The second semester exams were soon ended and again departure was at hand for our Summer Vacation The unior year opened and again we met our classmates but this time we all looked as though we had taken some astringent for the swelling and puffiness of last year was shrunken up This year we found quite a number of new faces in our midst our friends from Valparaiso University had arrived To them we extended a hearty welcome as we recognized their arrival and co operation was all that was necessary to make us the controlling class of the school It took us little time to become acquainted and soon we studied with them to face the exams at hand After the exams were over a sad affair happened which again darkened our days and made us fell much depressed It was the death of our dear classmate Frank Cella He had been in the hospital but two days when on the second day he died of brain abscess after a desperate effort had been made to save his life VVe all attended his last burial rites and extended our sympathy to his bereaved family The second semester passed quickly and we began to realize what a fortunate thing we had done when we left all that air of swelling at home because we were pretty near our last lap and it began to occur to us how little we knew There was one big event in the unior Year the election of Senior Class Qfficers A day was set aside for this ballots were printed, competition was very keen but after the clouds of warfare had passed off we all united to support our elected officers in their respective positions Une more thing was done which is worthy of mention and that was the publication of a college paper The Chicago Nfedic The bulk of which was carried on by the hard and diligent work of Drs Cook and Buxbaum Page IOI I , - 7 7 - ' - 7 . 7 Q 7 . 7 . J . 7 L ' 7 7