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

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Class Officers Clifton Henson President T. B. Gordon Vice-President Helen Macly Secretary-Treasurer Richard A. Bowen Honor Council E. W. Wood Historian J. R. BaileYj Athletic Representati ' ve Senior Class History S WE STAND for the last time on the threshold of our Alma Mater let us pause for a moment and gaze back over those short and happy years that have Intervened since first we gathered here. Fired then with a boundless enthusiasm that has at times been sadly discouraged — bent, broken but never beaten — we have carried on; and as a reward we face Today our great Tomorrow. Four years ago we took the fatal step and burned our bridges behind us. Then running full tilt in to Uncle Billie we rather regretted our hasty act of incendiarism, but later we felt justified for we had passed on intact to learn of laboratory technique from Lizzie — and truly Lizzie was a lesson himself. Next Ostie taught our remarkable resemblance to a pig embryo; and of the gentle art of gazing o ' er a whitewashed fence. While Gustave struggled vainly to show us the errors of our ways and to guide us into the Minnesota paths. Ward H. did not seem to appreciate the fact that we were all potential MacCallums, Mallorys and Ewings; and we sustained a few temporary casualties. Then Ostie took us in hand again and explained our convulsive reactions to an auto horn while he mentally ate his hat. He survived. Brodie showed us that youth is perennirJ, and that human (feminine) form is really divine; whicli facts were later confirmed by Dr. Joe White of America following a prolonged stay in gay Pares. While Charlie inspired a sudden interest in study; and explained the benefits of the Age of Pro- hibition. About this time we began to suspect that there were few things that we did not know — later this was verified. A third September rolled around and reinforced by our annual quota from Wake Forest a d West Virginia plus our returned soldiers from Carlisle we plunged once more into the fray. Now we learned of many marvelous and extr ' ordinary cases from Call ' e roll please, while G. Paul dem- onstrated the efficacy of aqua internally, externally, and eternally — the modern fountain of youth. Then we were introduced to infants who walked erect and ate toast like men, while their sisters and brothers climbed trees on Lactic acid stimulation. Greer and his cohorts initiated us in to the mysteries of life, where here we met little Johnnies and Marys in their Grand Debut. And witii Garnett we used every known method of study to keep our percentage mistakes as low as possible. Then Roshier taught to our great surprise that alcohol is not essential to the well-being of a medical student; so we became ardent Prohibitionists. And so we entered our Senior year; sadder but wiser. Entering this our final year with much elation, yet with a tinge of sadness that our happy a ' iso- ciations were so soon to be severed, we renewed afresh our teachings and learnings of last year. Now our work was largely hospital and we quickly learned that the ante partum use of the title Doctor is premature; but all in all. our efforts must have been creditable for we received many notesi from T. P. H. relative to the merits of our sticking and boiling (?) operations. We also added many new facts to our store of knowledge; prominent which were, that most human ailments may be traced to an origin in achylia gastrica, and that abdominal tumors may so often be pregnant uteri. And ' twas this year that we found that the proverbial needle in the haystick was an easy find com- pared to the discovery of a proper professor in the proper place at a proper time. Verily we became mind readers I But with the fun to one side — we have naught but praise and the utmost admiration for our excellent faculty, and in all humility we subscribe ourselves their most grateful friends and proteges. W have now rf ' ome to the parting of the ways, to embark — each of us — upon the Great Adventure; striving always to conquer lands unknown with our eyes turned to the last frontiers of our profession. But in those busy years to come let us never forget our happy student days; let us never lose touch with our friends of old; and our little service to mankind be such that our Alma Mater will always be proud to acclaim us as her sons. So— Keep us, O Thetis, in our Western flight! Watch us from thy pearly throne Our vessel plunging deeper into night To reach a land unknown. HISTORIAN. 28

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