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

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Al FRED P. POST SAUL BEPMSTEIM In memory of Alfred P. Post, who, as president of the Board of Directors and friend of Osteopathy, unselfishly devoted his time and able energies toward the advance- ment of our college and hospital, and whose passing we deeply mourn, we pause to reverently pay our respects to a man we can indeed call our friend and benefactor. In memory of Saul Bernstein, whose untimely demise abruptly terminated a career of great promise and deprived us of the fellowship of a splendid colleague and good friend.

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DEAN EDGAR O. HOLDEN, A.B., D.O. GREETINGS TO THE CLASS OF 1940 President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago is generally recognised as one of the most brilliant men in American education. He believes that professional education consists either of going through motions that we have inherited or of making gestures of varying degrees of wildness that we hope may be more elfectual. It seems to us that this terse, militant observation may well be analyzed with respect to osteopathic education. We are frank to admit its verity concerning the earlier stages of our devel- opment. But osteopathic education, that is, osteopathy as a school of philosophy, has come a long way in the past few years. Those responsible for its shaping — the coursing and motivation of osteopathic thought — have certainly propelled it far beyond the confusion that besets higher learning in general — of which Mr. Hutchins writes so trenchantly. Concerning the art — the technique, so to speak — there can be no gainsaying the propriety and accuracy of Mr. Hutchins assertion as it applies to osteopathic technique. Art gives, and will always give, us an imaginative realization of things. We are bound to copy and to imitate, no matter what facts we possess or what rules we have to guide us — without regard for native ability or degree of genius. As for the science of osteopathy — that is another matter. Science is creative reason. Science deals with the surface of things, and turns them inside out to reveal new surfaces. And that just about epitomizes the current approach to osteopathic reasoning — it is scientific. The search is for Truth — for Truth ' s sake alone. If there is any confusion about it, it is due to limitless fields of opportunity for thought, and to the unpredictable tenets that may follow. We in the field of osteopathy, while impressed with the apparent imperturbability of Dr. Still ' s postulates, are open to evidence of added theory or fact. So long as we remain so there need be little fear for the continued sanctity of our standing nor for our claim for universal recognition. The world — the social world — the intellectual world can not take from us our common inheritance — a code of principles and facts based on scientific — experimental and clinical observations. Our bedrock exists, broadly, firmly laid in basic principles that penetrate the heart of the profession and their countless patrons — the public at large — who have come to understand with increasing intellect the scientific claims of our school. Edgar O. Holden 6

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