McGill University - Old McGill Yearbook (Montreal Quebec, Canada)

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SIR EDWARD BEATTY, G.B.E., D.C.L., LL.D., Chancellor

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I T I Charles Ferdinand Martin, B.A., M.D.C.M., LL.D. CQueen's, Harvard, and McGillD, BCS. CBishop'sD, M.A.A.C., vvas born in Montreal on the 14th day of Qctoper, 'I868 He received his primary education at the Montreal High School, and then came to McGill. In 'I888 he graduated in Arts vvith first class honours in English literature and history. In 'ISQQ he obtained his MD. The following year vvas spent in the Montreal General Hospital, and then he went to Europe for post graduate study in Pathology and Internal Medicine at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and later in Graz, Austria. Qn his return in 'I894 he was appointed Demonstrator in pathology and Clinic Assistant at McGill, and for one year he was Assistant Pathologist at both Montreal General and the Royal Victoria Hospitals. This was follovved in 'I895 by his appointment as Assistant physician at the Royal Victoria Hospital. From IQO7 till 'I936 he held the following positions: Professor on Medicine and Physician to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Consulting Physician, Royal Victoria Hospital, Alexandra Hospital and Childrens Memorial Hospital. In 1923 he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill, vvhich position he filled till 'I936 when he retired and became a Governor of the University, His contributions to scientific literature are numerous, dealing particularly vvith Diseases of the Blood, Diseases of the Stomach, and Medical Education. At one time or another he has occupied the follovving offices: President of the Montreal Medico Chirurgical Society, the Canadian Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Asso- ciation of American physicians, and the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene. During the War he was Consultant in France and England to the C.A.M.C. At present he is the Honorary President of the Canadian Handicrafts Guild and President of the Art Association of Montreal. Dr. Martin has also had an outstanding athletic career, holding the Canadian Qpen Championship in Iennis in 1891. Dr. Martin managed to persuade the Roclcfeller Foundation to donate large sums of money to the Department of Medicine of McCuill and to finance the construction of the Neurological Institute of which McGill is iustly proud. 7

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THE CHANCEll0R'S MESSAGE ln offering o few words of forewell to those lectving lVlcGill lost yeor l suggested they were going into o world of much doubt ond confusion. For some yecirs post ond for some yeors to come l feor it hos been ond will be possible for this remorlc to be left set up in typeefor onnuol use. The groduoting closs of 1938 went out into o world still struggling with the economic problems orising rctther directly from whcit we hcive become occustomed to coll the greot depression. lnternotionol rivolries, ond the consequences of these, foced them but not in the storlc foshion in which they foce the groducttes of 1939. Yours is the first post-Munich closs. Yours is the closs which hos seen the Red ond White Review shoring the doily press with the first rumblings of the invosion of Czechoslovokio. Yours is the closs whose finol exominotions must hove been com- plicctted C1 little by the possibility thot they might be written in QCIS-mOSl4S. For my own port l still remoin hopeful of the continued peoce of the world into which you now emergesolthough my forecost moy be proven wrong before it rectches the printed poge. ln ony event, however, the world into which you go, if it be one of peoce, will be for ct long time yet one of ormed peoce. Our country is for from the scene where internotioncil iecilousies ond rivolries moy produce ctctuol closh of orms, but this is not o world in which distonce meons whot it did when l come out of the University to see o little wor between the United Stotes ond Spoin ond on expeditionory force recopture Khortoum. We cctnnot offord for o moment to guide our octions in this country by ony mistol4en ideci thot we ore immune to the politiccil troubles of o distcint continent. l om not sciying these things to stimulote wcirlilce ctrdour, to urge you to greoter potriotism, or to do cinything which sovours of flog-woving. l venture to remind you of the noture of the world into which you come, becouse this noture imposes upon you certoin responsibilities which did not lie os hecivily upon your predecessors. You belong to thot generotion which must leorn how to compromise between the necessory effort to mol4e your country strong ond to lceep it oble to ploy its port in the world, ond the ever-broodening need of improvement in internotionol goodwill ond brotherhood between men. It lies on your shoulders to find out ond understctnd the problems of other roces ond other notions, ond to sympothize with their recisonoble ctmbitions ond yet to ovoid feeble refusol to stond up for whot is right ond for the defence of those institu- tions which your own notion regords os vitol to o civilized society. l wish you success. l oslc you to remember thot by this success will be iudged the rectl worth of this University of yours. l pleod pctrticulorly with you to remember thot, when you lecive McGill, you do not end the life-long connection which you should mctintoin with the University, to full membership in which you ore now ctbout to be cidmitted. Z 9