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

Page 21 text:

I. 2. 3. HISTOLOGY AND EMBRYOLOGY The warp and wooT oT The body Tabric and iTs developmenT-one oT The basic pillars oT The Freshman year, We are impressed on reTro- specTion by The vasTness of The subiecT. Com- prehensiveness and conciseness characTerized The course Trom olllicial noTes, miraculously conTined To some 80 odd pages, To Dr. Sny- der's compacT and meaTy lecTures. We have recollecTions - oT innumerable rows oT slides, which aTTer The manner oT nighTmares increased mysTeriously as The ap- parenT end was sighTedq OT hours in darkened proiecTion rooms, more admirably suiTed To napping Than To surveyal oT invisible body archiTecTure: ol reelcing baby pigs, TerTile eggs and Those incomprehensible microscopic blue prinTs aT chicks unborn: oT discouraging aT- TempTs To draw on paper whaT The eye beheld under The lens, oT hecTic memorizing Tor The precise examinaTions: aT laboring over The spelling of hemopoiesis, and The locaTion oT The exacT level oT The red nucleus on The mim- eographed ouTlines. We also remember wifh respecT and aT- TecTion The liTTle man wiTh a prodigious mem- ory Tor names, whose wry humor and paTernal advice hearTened and challenged us. Dr. Snyder in his curio-Tilled oTTice. A Hollywood phoTo - Glamorous boy plus microscope. Trying To become arTisTs?

Page 20 text:

wb T rw 9 ff 1 To- 11 X ANATCDMY Men, The Clovicleu-wiTh These words we were ushered inTo our Course in AnoTomy, by The lcind, genTlemonly, sympoTheTic Dr. Phil- lips, whose knowledge oT AnoTomy ond his procTicol opplicoTion of iT, mode The com- plexiTies ond inTricocies oT The innumeroble sTrucTures comprising The humon body inTer- esTing To us, one ond oll. Qur course in dissecTion, occomponied by The much Tolked OT oromo ol The lobs, ex- Tended over o Two-yeor period. LecTures by Dr. Phillips were oTTen supplemenTed by re- morl4s Trom Drs, Worren, Shollenberger, Chunn, LiVosi, ond Pecirce. As pleosonT os The course wos, we s+iIl hove memories OT The dreoded momenTs when our respecTed professor would noncho- lonTly sTroll over To our Toble ond, wiTh expres- sionless TeoTures, Tire oT us- WhoT is The popliTeol nerve-where does iT come Trom, where does iT go, whol does iT do when iT geTs There ond whoT poThology is commonly ossocioTed wiTh iT? ProTessor Phillips checlcs over his cords. Dr. Peorce quizzes The boys on Fridoy olTer- noon. Dr, Chunn exploins The onoTomy oT hernios. Wonder if ThoT wos o nerve or o vein I iusT CUT? 52

Page 22 text:

fl, w if ,ganultf .....all-nl' lla BIOCHEMISTRY Nine poinl zero zero! ln a few minules we were inlroduced 'ro Biochemislry and deparl- menl members by Dr. Pearson. There were Dr. Schmidfs weird invenlions, Prof. l-licks' prolound discussions, lhe lale Prof. Snider's demonslralions and Dr. l-lepburn's leclures in which he mildly evaded queslion 'rraps laid lor him. Memories of Dr. Chandler will never loil-lhe hardesl head and lhe sollesl he-arf in school, as many ol us soon discovered. No day was complele wilhoul lhe Deans' leading our lradilional morning singing. And do you remember how Jrhe 'runes changed color when lhe boys arrived early and slarled The songs on 'rheir own hook? And so lhe year rolled by. Worry over ex- ams and bluFler solulions sei up lor lob experimenls were soon a for off, buf nol un- pleasant chopler in 'rhe paslr. Dr. Hepburn medilales aboul Food Chemisfry. Dean Pearson officioles belween leclures. Dr. Chandler wonders how so many could be so dumb. Prof. Hicks assembles weird apparalus.