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

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The precursor of the Hahnemann Medical College was the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art, which was found- ed at Allentown, Pa., on April 10, 1835. lt con- ferred the degree of Doctor of Homeopathia fHomeopathic Medicinel, Surgery and Mid- wifery, and was in existence as late as 1844. On April 8 of that year the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania was organized. A new charter, using the new name, was granted in 1865. In 1870, this college and the Washington Medical College of Philadelphia were consoli- dated as the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, as a corporation possessing all the powers, immunities, rights and privileges of a university. The prime movers in the procuring of the original charter in 1848 were Constantine Hering, Jacob Jeanes and Walter Williamson. The Hahnemann Medical College held its first ,fl . C va iv, Q- .1 1 5 is E -rt - A A .,, .. 1 Y --. -4 ' v . V, 'N ,- . . ' Sy -N V NX ff! i K . . - 'lt l 5 llflltvynnug u' Q -as -4 - :- ' ' 1 n. sf - iiffffs it . H ss' ---2, 1- fir K... . L flf'7- 'fxf , ,,T'X-N f '-. is 7' n l 'T lrff 1 ' - --.c l fm T 9' r 1. ' 9. tl ' f j-'Hg ff. 'N -' - -.. l A -T 'w 5 + l T' T 'tyre F 's ' IH l 'f l 4 ' y .. . .,. ,Q A, - 2 - y . -N 1, ' .,.. . -. , . l 1,4 g-,,,,.,,.,,.,nli session C1867-18681 at 1307 Chestnut Street, its second session C1868-18691 at 16 and 18 North Tenth Street. After the consolidation, instruction was giv- en in the building on Filbert Street until 1886, in the old college building on North Broad Street fthe site of the present Hahnemann Hospitall from 1886 to 1927, and in temporary quarters at 216 North Broad Street from June 1927 to December 1928. ln January 1929, the present college building was occupied. The first unit of a new college building was erected in 1938, containing Klahr Auditorium, lecture rooms, and laboratories. The course of medical instruction originally was ungraded and covered two academic years. ln 1869 a three-year course was made optional, in 1886 it was made obligatory. A four-year graded course was first offered in 1890, becom- ing obligatory four years later. By 1914 the admission requisites were increased to include one year of college work, including didactic and laboratory work in chemistry, physics, and biol- ogy. This was further increased to two years of collegiate work in 1917. ln recent years, most of the matriculates have completed three or more years of collegiate work before beginning the study of medicine. The degree of Bachelor of Science and higher degrees were first conferred at the commencement of 1921. Women were first admitted as students during the academic year 1941-1942. ln 1945 the corporation acquired the Northwest School on Race Street, completely renovated it, and converted it into a Clinic Building. This was dedicated on May 24, 1945 with an address by Hon. Edward Martin, Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania. At present, Hahnemann is undergoing Q program of expansion and modernization with an entirely new College and Hospital as the ultimate goal.

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An era ends. The four years that have elapsed since that warm September day in 1946 when we undertook the study of Medicine are drawing to a close. The time has passed quickly for some and has been almost interminable for others. And with the end of this period the work- aday life of the hectic days at Hahnemann and the events that gave us food for thought and topics for talk will become part of a fading yesterday. With this in mind, the Staff has endeavored to present a picture of the period, not complete by any means but perhaps more in the nature of a shadowgraph. We have attempted to provide a background wherein the details could be more readily sketched by the reader in the years to come. Thus, we begin the Life and Times of the Mid-Century Class. It was the first post-war year of the second World War when we entered Hahnemann. For four long and bloody years, Americans had fought all over the world in hitherto unknown places, now indelibly fixed in our memories- Bizerte, Anzio, Bastogne, Guadalcanal, Leyte, Okinawa. F.D.R., elected to the Presidency for the fourth time, did not survive to witness victory over the Axis powers. Victory, however, had produced no per- manent solution to international perplexities. The atom bomb had ushered in a period of general uneasiness. Through the North Atlantic Pact and the Marshall Plan we sought to support the weakened Western countries against further aggression. Even while the world was congratulating it- self on the birth of the United Nations Organiza- tion fa Freshman in 1946, toob, the Cold War began. This organization played an im- portant part in the rebirth of such nations as Indonesia and Israel, but it could not halt the train of events which led to civil war in Greece and China, the Berlin Blockade, the race for atomic supremacy. ln the U.S. the communistnproblem con- tinued to make headlines - the loyalty investi- gations, the trial of the eleven communist leaders with Judge Medina presiding, the controversial Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers affair. Price controls were repealed, but shortages continued. The cost-of-living index rose pre- cipitously, and - cause or effect - was accom- panied by a nation-wide wave of strikes and walkouts. More shortages followed: first oil, then coal, then steel. Trains were forced to curtail their services. New York City attempted to con- serve electricity by a brownout, and, threat- ened with a serious depletion in water supply, underwent annoying shaveless Thursdays. Gradually, the buyers' market returned. A new car could be bought at list price, and if a man could buy a house it was still his castle, if only measured by cost. The era of the five-cent cup of coffee seemed on the wane. ln the field of Federal Government, econ- omy was still a dream. A growing tendency toward the welfare state was viewed with alarm, pointed to with pride. President Truman was returned to office after a spectacular defeat of New York's Governor Dewey. He continued in his efforts to unify the Armed Services amid loud squabbling between Navy and Air Force. Congressional investigation of lobbyists and 5- percenters, deep-freezers and Presidential Aide Major General Harry Vaughn, provided radio comic Jack Benny with a few new iokes. Socialized medicine got its share of head- lines, praised and criticized with equal heat in England, legislated out of existence in Australia and New Zealand, it had not made much head- way in this country. The American Medical Association taxed members S25 for its public relations campaign, using the famous painting of The Doctor in its attempt to keep politics out of this picture.