Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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this collegeg hundreds of Alumni have heard his voice, and, thanks to the instruction those Alumni received, thousands of American citizens that other- wise might have blighted as mere experimental suggestions, were born to the glory of God and the increase of the population of the Republic. We need not enlarge on this topicg we need only say that in the presentation of this picture, the generous donor has added another jewel to the Rush Medical College col- lection. YfVe read in northern mythology of the XValhalla, that the building itself, whose dome was so high that its summit could scarcely be seen, was as marvelous as the heroes whose virtues it was built to commemorateg that its location was in the midst of the grove Mansurf' where all the trees bore leaves of gold. In time this will become ourXValhalla, although we lay no stress on architectural display as did those who designed that famous structure, In years to come, Alumni visiting Rush Memorial Hall ofthe future may truthfully say of this picture, as of the animated bust and storied urn of song: Bright Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. v Y' I99

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Prof. LYMAN said: Mr.Prt'sz'zie71t, Gfzztlmzcvz of fhe Trzzsfcrs, Fdfllflfjf and Sizzdeizfs of Rush Ilffdzknf Collage.- In the palmy days of ancient Greece, when Pericles and Phidias, and Hischylus and Sophocles, and Socrates and Plato were making Athens glorious with everything that renders a city great and magnificent, if some vaporing young blade in a fit of enthusiasm was extolling the present at the expense of the past, it was usual for the wise old men to wag their heads and to say, Yes, but there were great men before Agamemnon. So when you feel impressed with the present dignity of your alma mater, and grow warm with zeal as you behold Professor SENN, or Professor I-IA511L- TON, or Professor ETHERIDGE wading through seas of blood to glory and fame, remember that there were great men before Agamemnon. Wfe are especially favored on this occasion by the fact that we have with us two honored representatives of that former generation, and that you can for yourselves trace the accuracy of the likeness in their counterfeit presentments, the portraits now presented to the college. It is because these men have lived and labored, it is because they devoted their lives to the work of medical teaching, that Rush Medical College is to-day what she is-one of the greatest medical colleges in the United States of America. There were great men before Agamemnon. ' From this pleasing incident, moreover, I gather comfort for the future. Sometiuii 3 I say to myself, What will we do when President HOLMES goes the way of all flesh, and we have his faithful supervision no more? XVhat will become of the college when Dr. HX'DE and Dr. BEV.-IN and the rest of us have to lay down the scalpel and the stethoscope? But an instant of reflection reas- sures me, and I believe that as there were great men before Agamemnon, so there will be great men after him. Some one will be always found ready to lift up the banner of progress and to bear it triumphantly onward forever. Yes, there were great men before Agamemnon, and after him there will be great men still so long as time shall endure. Dr. l'IAMIL'l'ON said: We accept from the original himself, at your hands, this faithful representa- tion of an ideal teacher, an accomplished obstetrician, a scholar, a sagacious counselor and a patriotic citizen, Prof. DE LASKIE MILLER has been identihed with Rush Medical College almost from its beginning, and although still vigor- ous in mind and body, he has been actively associated with every movement which step by step has placed this college in the advance raink of American' educational institutions. His early career as a medical journalist, and his Presidency of the Section on Obstetrics of the International Medical Congress at NVashington, extended a knowledge of his worth and ability beyond the con- fines of his city to other lands: for at the close of that now historic Congress, he had acquired friends and admirers almost to the ends of the earth. I need scarcely speak in his presence, of his long and faithful service as a professor in 198

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Glass Tbistory '94 DELIVERED ON CL.-xss DAY, MAY 21sT. 110. P1'f5ide1z!, Fellow C1455-flmfes, Proffssors, Ladies and Gc11fZe11zm.' College life, with its ever-changing cycle of classes, its myriads of suc- cesses and failures, its triumphs and disappointments, its pleasures and drudgery, has forced three classes from Rush's threshold since we became her children, and but a few days remain until the class of '94 will be launched upon life's battle-held to join our alma mater's working children of the world. A few reminiscences of the past, a few facts to be ever remembered, a few words of sadness to record the lives of those who have passed on before, a few items jotted from each mile-stone of the short medical highway which we have traveled, a few pages to be filed away among the archives of Rush Medi- cal College literature, and the historian of the class of ,Q4 will have fulfilled his mission. As medical students for decades had nvzd in the office of a regular phy- sician for a year previous to reveling in the medical atmosphere which engulfs a medical college, so we like our predecessors delved deeply into anatomy, physiology, chemistry and materia medica for the required twelve months. But as we were then widely separated, and as many of us had years before developed the idea of becoming physicians, and had studied in literary colleges preparatory to our medical education, the medical life of these stu- dents may be said to date far beyond the four years required for graduation, so we will begin the history proper with the gathering of the class three years ago. In the autumn of 1891 we shook the parental dust from our feet, grasped the hands of our relatives and friends in a last good-by, boarded the train, and soon reached the city where all was new, the only familiar object being the sun, and he in all his wisdom and brightness deceived us by habitually setting in the north. We demonstrated our enthusiasm by calling the college clerk up at midnight to receive our fees. We called at the Cook County Hospital for lodgings, thinking it was a hotel, but the watchman kindly informed us that they were all sick abed and we could not be accommodated. The follow- ing day we secured a room, and after asking every senior if he had a room- mate, we accidentally ran across a partner in misery and then secured a room- mate. The College clerk secured our money, we secured our seat twhich a senior usurped the following dayil. W'e secured a meal ticket at a restaurant, we secured a note book as large as a family Bible, and thus began the life of a medical student in earnest. VVe were all present to hear the opening address. lVe came early, and after we had listened to the piercing yells and war-whoops of the seniors for a short 200