Georgetown University - Ye Domesday Booke Yearbook (Georgetown, DC)

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.....-- ---- 1 R--Kglagxgrggrs.gg-s-,.vNMssxwX ..fg:::: --as N.N. -y::: Q--gs, X we x - M X Nw Ky., .vs X E gs wxxxxx Aw Wg . . .K ,,,..,... sxxx x,,,, . t 5. Xx Uhr Euninr-mnrh Fin ehirinv HE knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge. the only knowledge which has life and growth in it and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain or .41 Lim 'W JU . . dries hke rain drops off the stones. Today, we, of the junior Class, stand the turning point in the conversion of theoretical knowledge to that of the knowledge of the Prac- titioner. Brought from our cradle of medicine, the red brick building on HH street to the manhood of medicine, the Hospital on the Hill, we enter a noble heritage, made so by no efforts of our own, but by the generations of men who have unseltishly s-ought to do the best they could for suffering mankind. Three years ago we enrolled in the crusade against man's greatest enemy-Disease. XVell do we remember the ideals set forth by Professors lflird, Hemler, Norris, johnson, Hamilton, Grifhth and Father Tondorf, SJ. They fondled us on tot our destiniesg in the great mysteries of Medicine. But now the dried bones of Anatomy have been clothed with interest: the physiology of the human body has given us the insight wherein to detect the deviation from the normal: the pathology has armed us with the sharp first, outlines of human interspection for disease: the realms of chemistry, investigated in the test tubeg now become resident tot the human bodv in its ailments: the pharmacology now applies itself to the body of man, and finally, the tremulous uneasiness and the overwhehning sense of embarrassment which we once experienced is now automatically regulated as if by some possible vaso-motor accompaniment. Perhaps there are faces, which were once our pleasure. now no longer with our class. Yet, no matter where they be, the spirit and the loyalty that we all now, and always, possessed will urge them on to do good for mankind. May we, of the Junior Class, cultivate such a judicious measure of obtuseness as will enable us to meet the exigencies of practice with Hrmness and courage without, at the same time, hardening the human heart by which we live. More than once, in a life rich in the priceless blessings of worthy professors, we have been placed in positions in which no words could express the feelings of our hearts. The keenest sentiments of grati- tude well up from our innermost being at the tho-ught of the kindliness and goodness which have followed us at every step during the past three years. Gentlemen of the Faculty-Noblesse Obliffe. J lb THOMAS STROTHER, Historian. IWFZ- X A X ms wx X w X N X vw x y mx X XX vx :MEX ,Xx . X, sf! X X X vv v A T' ii .st .. 3

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