Drexel University College of Medicine - Medic Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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CLASS OF1921 4194

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8 HAHNEMANN RUFUS BENJAMIN WEAVER Titles of honor add not to his Ivorth Who is an honor to his title. In dedicating this class book to the ho nor of Rufus Benjamin Weaver, A.IVI., IVI.D., Sc.D., the Class of 1921 has placed itself on record as choosing the greatest man on the Faculty of Old Hahnemann as their ideal, and they cannot do better than adopt his sentiment as their standard as they enter upon their Iifework. Six years ago, at his Golden Jubilee, Dr. Weaver said, What I have done has been a work of love. If I were asked the definition of work I would reply, the doing of something for our feIIowman. This has been the goal of the greatest Iiving anatomistg many men have chosen some other branch of our profession to accomplish the same object. They have helped their thousands, but Dr. Weaver in his quiet life in his studio and his laboratory has, through his students, reached his tens of thousands. I-Ie has taught the subject that is the keystone upon which all other departments of our profession rest, to more than 3000 of the students of Old I-Iahnemanng I-Iis Boys as he proudly calls them. I-Ie has taught every teacher in the medical Faculty and almost every living graduate of the school. IVIay we not call upon our Ideal and ask him to join us in our pride, when we, claiming him as our own, recall that no man in the history of medicine has taught anat- omy for so many years, and add that no man has taught it better or more thoroughly? Since 1869 Dr. Weaver's talents and work have been for our School, Old I-Iahnemannf' At no time has his loyalty waned in the slightest degreeg he has served with three Faculties and through great changes. True, he has had flattering offers from other institutions: offers financially more than four times as great as our college could pay, but invariably he has stood firm. When Dr. A. R. Thomas asked him what he was going to do with one of these offers, he replied, What do you suppose I am going to do, Dr. Thomas? Stay here, of course. I-Iahnemann owes more to Dr. Weaver than to any other living man. His work and teaching of his specialty has placed our college in the foremost ranks of all institu- tions teaching Anatomy. Dr. Weaver did more for I Iahnemann than teach her students. In the early seventies when a financial crisis threatened our school, he alone pledged his entire fortune and preserved to us and the world, I Iahnemann Medical College. Without Dr. Weaver, our college would long ago have been forgotteng others might have saved her, he did save her. I-Iis wonderful museum is a lasting testament of his skill and patience, but the College itself is his monument. The glory of any institution is the great men who have taught and studied in her haIIs. I-Ias I-Iahnemann ever had a greater man than Rufus Benjamin Xveaver? I-Ie has taught longer than any teacher the college ever had and none have been more con- scientious or been a better friend to the student than he. Dr. Weaver is the idol of the Student Body and Faculty alike, we do more than honor him, we love him: not merely

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