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

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SENIORSW Salutatnrp Zlhhress Mr. P7E5ldE7lZ, .Members of the Faculty, Fellow Clezffmatef and Frienclf: In behalf of the class of 1917 I extend to you a most cordial welcome. Today we are assembled for the solemn purpose of receiving our commissions as mission- aries in the field of science. We stand at the threshold of our future's doorway, yesterday is past, tomorrow yet to come, but today, with its promise of life's golden treasure, is ours. Let us use it! Gur roads shall separate and whether we attain our goal over the trial beset path or whether fortune shall discriminat- ingly open wide her portals, we know not. But Nlan to lVIan, all will give to the world, the highest and best that each has to offer. As individuals, we are about to gather in the threads of our learning and weave the pattern of our dreams and desires. lVIay this life's tapestry be brightened as well as strengthened by the golden strands gleaned from the personalities and the influence of our most worthy professors. The loving encouragement, and the immortal faith of our home-folks will pervade the warp and Woof with a roseate hue just as it has surrounded us in the past as a protecting buffer against our child- hoodls world for time, like an everflowing stream, bears us onward from the shallows of our youthls experiences into the eddying whirlpools-the bottomless depths of ambition's temptations. Nlay the fabric of our lifeis work reflect in its sheen and delicacy of thought, a purity of motive, and a conscientiousness toward all. I In taking up this medical course we must have recognized the right the public has to demand a sterling character, when it entrusts its health and health means success, in the hands of the physician. We shall in a measure become mediators between life and death. just as the Vestral Virgins cherished the fires of the hearth, so shall we protect and guard that spark of life, as long as it shall. flicker. Hope must be our watchword. Let us shudder to be delinquent in our duty. The responsibility that we assume is overwhelming in its proportions, and demands the level head and clear judgment of a straight and honorable life. Earth gets its price for what earth gives us! The potterls skill produces the vessel of perfect contour, the Artist wields his brush and lo! a moment of emotion is protrayed on the canvass-the Musician woos the muse of the soul's language, music-and the world is grateful for the golden chords of harmony that calm our fevered desires and carry into unexplored realms, our most jadded imaginations. But most precious of all is life and the physician ever seeking ways of prolonging, beautifying by health that Life, must feel a multiple reward when he strives to follow in the footsteps of that 'cGreatest of all Scientistsl' who promised that the sick be healed, the blind shall see, and the crooked be made straightf, ' Let us wear a smile of hope and strength, For with noble purpose and honesty, A faith in I-Tim who rules on high, The Victors we shall be at length. We measure the world by its progress. VVe trace NIan's development from the barely intelligent cave dweller to the master minds who solve Life problems. We behold the enormous results of lVIan, the sublime works of Art, or the Scientific Page IIO 1- 4.1.-.42-:z:'.a:n'::..e -.e.4,1,x,,.., .. 1.1-if -F-.nn-ns:-vw uv-w..f--1-any-gwxfsyeffvna-1a-nvrv.-. '--v .fm s-fnwxsxvvnfsv-w-vw-an-fm.,-f,,,u,.a-. -1 a-, ..-,-...a,.,..,..1,,.,,,..T,,,,,..,,m,,m,.,.g3,,,,,,.,!- Q i

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SENIORS marvels of the day, and perhaps a query intrudes itself upon our thoughts. We ask ourselves-what is the stimulus underlying these achievements of Man? Is competition or compensation the greater incentive? The Egyptians erected the pyramids, the present monuments of a past glory. Was their compensation the feeding of their egotistic pride, or was it competition against the elements? Nations are warring, spurred on by competition, rivalry, jealousy, and goaded on by What may be their compensation, acquired territory or advantageous trade regulations. Through it all lVIan is being refined to that divine brotherhood Where 'fall shall be brothers for a' thatf, But the physician alone has no place for compensation. His stimulus must be a love for his chosen Work and the untiring devotion to a suffering mankind. To enter the Surgical Field for compensation alone Would be contemptible. To copyright for the purpose of gain a discovered cure or relief for a disease hitherto incurable, Would place that type of a physician in a class all unto his own vile self. Charity and Hope is the keynote of the medical man's success! A Dust thou art, to dust returnethw Was not spoken of the soul. And When the Way seems blocked by life's adversities let us raise our eyes and say: f'It matters not how straight the gait, Or marked With punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soulln Again in behalf of the Class of 1917, I bid you Welcome. I C. R. CHOUINARD. Page II2