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

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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.

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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?

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Jw. is .A..il-14-J PHYSIOLOGY We approached fhis course in our Sorlci- more year wifh a mild degree of lwyferio and fachycardia. Many and heavy were fhe rumors fhaf a flunlr in fhis course is a ore-war 'riclcef home. Dr. Scoff, lhe scholarly deparfmenlal head. who spends his Chrisfrnas holidays in re- search worlc, soon ocquainfed us wilh lhe frufhfulness of fhe adage, Work nnalfes my bread fasfe sweeler: I am o man, We lisfened lo fhe lecfures in old room E where Dr. Scoffls amplifier-filfered voice lulled us fo slumber. Some fried fo follow +he lec- fures in fhe prinfed nofeboolcs, buf fhe sub- microscopic prinfing was loo much for our myopic eyes. Periodically, we also had fo franslafe passages from MacLeod info sensi- ble English. ln fhe sunshine-filled loborafory, fhousands of frogs were pifhed, miles of smolced paper land fingersl were shellaclced, and hundreds of suppers were eafen cold. l.afer however, dogs and cafs began fo mysferiously die of 6:00 P. M. and suppers were nof so cold. Every monfh we sfruggled wifh rhe difficulf exam quesfions-bul we learned our physi- ologyl . Dr, Wheeler offers helpful hinfs. . Dr. Shapiro prepares 'rhe day's work. . Dr. Beck carefully scrufinizes our exam books. . Research Professor of Physiology, Dr. McClendon. Nwifrn f'n r s'sf bifrnr slad .ok AYKQEWGIUO oeeym.. . In hrs qulef, scholarly, observant manner, Dr. Scolf helps fhe boys. gl 71