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

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CLASS OF 1921 I5 Gentlemen of the Class of 1921 of Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia: In asking me to contribute to your class book you confer upon me an honor which I truly appreciate, and you impose upon me a duty which brings with it a real pleasure. lf I can offer you a few thoughts which will be worth while, which will help perhaps both you and me to realize more conscientiously the great responsib.lity resting upon us as guardians of human weal, then my humble effort will indeed bring me pleasure. Let us remember the words of Cicero: l-lomines ad deos nulla re proprius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dandof' There is no way by which men can approach nearer to the gods than by contributing to the welfare of their fellow-creaturesf, Gentlemen of the Class: l offer you my congratulations upon your entrance to the profession of medicine. I know that you possess a high degree of medical happiness and I know that a greater and ever increasing degree of professional happiness awaits you in the future. Your professional happiness is destined to increase by leaps and bounds as you become initiated more and more in the wonderful mysteries of the healing art, whose kaleidoscopic features present irresistible attractions to the scientific mind. Therefore, I offer you my sincere congratulations and you may be pleased to know that a goodly portion of my own professional happiness is due to my college relations with you. It is always a pleasure for me to see the students whom I have conscientiously instructed reap the reward of their arduous college work, graduate and start on their life of mercy and of charity. The reward of college work is the cliplomag the reward of a life of self-sacrifice cannot be estimated in dollars and cents, nor in earthly honors and tribute and the human heart, ofttimes bursting with gratitude and overflowing with affec- tion, must be turned to, though filled with gold, nevertheless, it is empty and void. And sometimes the heart, too, is found wanting and the physician's skill and merciful care go unrewarded, at least in this life. And so, my dear friends, I welcome you to our ranks, assuring you that there is plenty of room amongst us for men of brain and of brawn. Where is there a profession or an occupation that taxes both the mind and the body so strenuously as the practice of medicine? You have chosen hard work, but I assure you the reward is worth the labor. I ask you to be everything that an ideal physician should beg to possess the requisite up- to-date knowledge of matters medical that you may be a credit to your profession and a benefactor to the public, to be a gentleman, sufficiently polished in manners and in garb, in speech and in act, that you may uphold the dignity of your rank and callingg to be professional, ethical, dealing honorably with your brother practitioners, spurning all pro- fessional jealousies and puerile animosities which ofttimes belittle the physician and soil his honor and fair name. May this year be to each of you the beginning of a professional life fraught with success and reward. Such will it be if you possess Ha peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscienceng and if you keep yourself Hunspotted from the worldng such will it be if you remember that the science of medicine requires of its devotees a sound mind in a sound body, coupled with a live conscience, a tender heart and a spirit of self- sacrifice. And now, The grace of heaven, Before, behind thee and on every hand, Entvheel thee round! HERBERT L. NORTHROP, MD., '89.

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