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

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ma mmmmm . . . LIBRARY several students hastily pick up their copies of the osteopathic publications just delivered this morning — The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, The Osteopathic Digest, The Forum of Osteopathy. Still others glance quickly through references before the bell rings, and continue on their way to classes. Mrs. Bowers, the librarian, assists a nurse in making her daily selection of books for hospital patients. Farther along the corridor, an official blue notice left in front of . . . - «■

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K M Vl . . . AUDITORIUM, an ordeal is waiting for some of them. Today, that unannounced, that dread phe- nomenon — the Freshman anatomy exam — is being held. No warning, no hurried review, no all-night cramming . . . suddenly, unexpectedly, it is here . . . Something is in the air . . . today is the day . . . there is a hurried, last-minute opening of books ... a final nervous glance at suddenly hazy pages ... an apprehensive scanning of sheets being handed out. Others, not Freshmen, breathe a sympathetic sigh of remembrance and pass on, while on the other side of the corridor, in a corner of the . . . : : ' ;: M|j : ; ■ ■ MM

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. . . THE COLLEGE OFFICE has advised a student to present himself before Associate Dean Russell C. Erb . . . a warning of over-cuts? Special tutoring? Hospital night duty? . . . always a feeling of slight apprehension . . . In another part of the office, Mr. Floyd Kefford, college and hospital publicity director, dictates a press releas e to Miss Elizabeth Becker, his secretary. At Professor Erb ' s desk, Miss Katherine Proud takes a memorandum to be delivered to . . .