Medical College of Virginia - X Ray Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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L. Z. MORRIS

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Qoretoorfci In handing this fourth volume of the year boo}( of the Medical College of Virginia to their student body, the staff of the X-Ray feels nothing of regret, prays no forgive- ness, ash.s no quarter. It does so with the full assurance of an obligation justly met and consoles its inadequate attempt with a somewhat selfish feeling that it represents the best that was in them. Angels can do no more. 1$lVe have attempted to perpetuate the spirit of the year boolfs that have gone before. We have attempted to commemorate something of the priceless moments that you all have known so Well. To what extent we have missed or exceeded the marl? you alone shall be the judges. IfrlVe long now for the gladness of the spring, seen with a vision of all that is true and beautiful, opens before us like the vista of a new day. If these pages portray to you somewhat of the memories that you have known, if in the years that lie before you a single dream of gladness about the old Medical College of Virginia is returned, we shall feel like that one who wraps the draperies of his couch about him and ' lays down to pleasant dreams. — The Editors.

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Dedication WE COUNT it a rare pleasure and privilege to dedicate this fourth volume of the X-Ray to such an one as Mr. L. Z. Morris. Yet we feel our utter inability in so short a sketch to do justice to a man whose life and zeal for this institution cannot be measured by words. To accomplish such a task would but be to recount those priceless moments of thought and vision and love and hope for the future of the Medical College of Virginia which this man among men has devoted since his connection with her interests. To-day the spirit of commercialism reigns supreme in the body politic. Rarer than the precious stone is the man who still sees visions, who still finds time in the fierce unending struggle for existence to put the best that is in him toward the consummation of an ideal, and who unostentatiously with the true spirit of the Great Benefactor gives his utmost and asks naught in return. Such an one is Mr. L. Z. Morris. Since his affiliation with the affairs of our Alma Mater, Mr. Morris has labored unceasingly, quietly, tellingly for her advance- ment. No moment of the day or night has ever found the approaches to his heart or his ears closed to appeal. Lacking something of the radiance cast by Dr. Mitchell, Mr. Morris has served since that scholar ' s departure efficiently and well as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors.