Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Synapsis Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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1036 : pnap5is THE SYNAPSIS STAFF DONALD S. GIBBS Editor-in-Chief DAVID S. YOUNG Literary Editor ROBERT BARNES Associate Literary Editor JOHN MORRESY Associate Literary Editor REED SPEER Photographic Editor MARIAN E. TRACY Art Editor THOMAS FLEMING Humor Editor WILLIAM C. SODEN Business Manager W. TANNENBAUM Assistant Business Manager Page Eight

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1936 ; ] ' iiapsis t tKfje J|is;torp of tije IDfjilabelpljia College of £iteopatf)p I iT WAS in 1899, when the science of Osteopathy had been on a scientifically taught basis for only a quarter of a century, that Dr. O. J. Snyder and Mason W. Pressly, early disciples of Andrew Taylor Still, first conceived the idea of founding a center in the East for the teaching of their profession. Accordingly rooms were rented in the Stephen Girard Building, and the insti- tution, incorporated under the name of the Philadelphia College and Infirmary of Osteopathy, received its start. The classes were naturally at first small, the first group graduating in the year 1901, trained and taught almost exclusively by the founders themselves, who, together with one secretary, ran every department of the institution. The Dean at this time was Dr. McCurdy, a grand gentleman and a true Osteopath, whose memory will ever be honored. In 1904 a series of changes began, due to the combined effects of the growth of the school and to financial embarrassment. From the Witherspoon Building, P. C. O. ' s second home, to the building ever after known as 33rd and Arch, in 1906, were the next two moves, and from here the college moved north to 715 North Broad Street. During this period, the student body being by no means large enough that their fees would support the college, the burden of expense was largely shared by the leading members of the faculty. Osteopathy at this time enjoyed but little recognition, and had a large and critical medical fraternity to pit itself against. The courage of these men who staked their all in order to give Osteopathy the Page Ten