Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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wrapped in worse soaked blankets, they kept their friends from the rural dis- tricts off the grass, from killing the foreigners on the Midway, and from being buncoed out of their return tickets. During this vacation several of the boys sold Bibles to the people of Iowa and Nebraska, one became a Pinkerton detect- ive and came very near arresting a real burglar, a few got married, while others only rested and waited for the last term. The beginning of the senior year was ominous for the class of '94. The new building'was soon to be completed and the best facilities for instruction were to be used, the recitation system in divided classes was new, and the class soon saw the superiority of this plan over all others. New special courses were added, and improved methods were added to nearly every practical course: plenty of room was now secured for all the different classes. The only thing lacking was time, and the Faculty then made the spring term com- pulsatory, thus making one continuous term of study eight months in length. The seniors concluded to have an election after the term had fairly opened and all the members had returned from their vacation. In about ten days of adjourned meetings, postponements and lobbyings all the offices were hlled. The wire workers got together, and after the chief mogul and lesser lights had made a slate and whipped the rabble into line, it looked like folly to hold an election, but the mogul and his clan did not want to fill the offices and they were eagerly seized by those on the outside. The result of the balloting, oratory and perspiration was as follows: Ii. H. OCHSNER, President: ul. B. Caxavax, Vice-President: I-I. M. H.-xYEs, Secretary: E. B. Mc.-XLL1s'rER, Treas- urer: T. E. ANDRE, Valedictorian: A. T. Conuss, Chaplain: .lol-iN Ross, His- torian: F. W. IIIILLER, Prophet: J. V. RcssELL, Chorister: O. B. BOCli,SC1'gCElI1t- at-arms, and E. P. LIERLE. E. L. Wvcxorif, H. N. CL.-ink, W. E. Nicuors, and C. H. NIANXING members of the Executive Committee. During this year we have had a great many new ideas advanced by our class. Especially in the arena where each one was desirous of displaying his various accomplishments were these new opinions often introduced. A sliver as large as a tree was spoken of by an embryo surgeon: tuberculosis of the lung was found as pus in the left axilla: absence of hairs in the eye-lashes was a prominent symptom in a certain case: immobilization by a plaster of paris splint was recommended for treating an anchylosed joint: tracheotomy has been recently performed on the tesophagus in operative surgery: ligation of the oesophagus was classed as a capital operation by one of our number: warts, corns and bunions were considered formidable affections: a new dance was learned on the midway and reproduced in the arena: twenty-two set of whisk- ers were raised, each set being valued at fifteen hundred dollars: a visit was made to the insane asylum at Dunning, where osculation and dancing were freely indulged in: one student is puzzled about feeding a patient through an intubation tube. IYhen an actor called out, Is there a medical man in the house P one of our men was there. One of our men spelled skin with two N's and now wishes he had written hide. We have wandered about unconsciously for a month and finally came to our senses in a hospital, and the surgery of the marriage covenant has been ably discussed by one of our class-mates. In the Cook County Hospital examinations our class has maintained the high reputation of the college by furnishing four of the eight internes. In other hospitals where pulls were not considered our class secured many posi- tions. The Faculty offered two prizes exclusively to seniors for the best theses upon diphtheria. The first was awarded to Mr. C. D. CENTER and the second to Mr. A. T. STEWART. In the competition for the Daniel Brainard gold medal we again showed our superiority as dissectors, for the Hrst two places were secured by Mr. F. NV. BYRNES and Mr. G. C. XVAISS respectively. The most attractive features of our senior year was our class meetings, of 2o3

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star in the tirmament of Rush had fallen, and that upon our return to college we would miss the thoughtful, careful lectures of Prof. KNOX. Very soon after the opening of our second term we learned that not only a professor but one of our own number was missing and had answered the summons of the Maker of Peace. We learned that JAMES GAGNON had succumbed to typhoid fever, and the class was again called together in remembrance of one of her members. The class of yQ4 now looked forward to prosperity and advancement, and concluded that in order to work in harmony a class organization must be ef- fected, so C. D. CENTER was elected president, F. E. SHAYKETT, vice-presidentg. and H. F. THOMPSON, secretary. The meetings of the class during this year were few and not important, as very little business came before the class, and the orators of the class did not develop until the last year. In the class room we seemed to outclass our-predecessors who had traveled the road before and should have discovered what we so easily demonstrated. A new tumor which was called a neurolgia' was found by one of our class: we saw a glass eye' which could seeg we conducted a skin clinic in the dispensary, we worked all the available pulls, we fainted in the maternity, we bribed the janitor and secured a good cadaverg we passed the juniors upg in fact, we had a fine time. Early in this year we were gratified to hear that among our sedate, hard-work- ing class were accomplished dancers, and that in conjunction with other medi- cal colleges in the city we were to have a ball, where all cares and trials would be banished by pleasure, and where the image of the glaring eyes and ghastly grin of a cadaver would be replaced by feminine beauties enshrouded in love- liness and fashion. We waited patiently until we heard the first strains of the orchestra and the delicate patter of the dancers' feet before we believed the medical students could have so nice a ball as was predicted. The ball was- a success, and when the prizes were awarded we noticed the same ardent spirit manifested by our class-mates which had characterized their work in arranging for the ball. The superiority of the class had been noticed on sev- eral occasions, but being very modest we never appeared in public until at the commencement exercises of the class of 793, when one of our members, Mr. O. B. Bock, received the Daniel Brainard gold medal for the best dissection. This class being enthusiastic over literary work, not only furnished two editors of The Cazpzzsflr, one member of the editing board of the Lake Forest College annual in ISQ2, but it was this class which conceived the idea and began the work of publishing an annual for Rush. Our annual was dropped for lack of time and support from the other classes, but the work was not aban- doned, for the succeeding class began the work in time and in earnest, and having the support of the whole school, produced a book of which every man connected with Rush feels proud. The following class has also taken up the work of , editing a similar book next year, so that in succeeding years we may expect to have a publication which will represent Rush in all of her varied phases. The annual like The C07fZlJCfL' was the first publication of its kind pro- duced in America by medical students. The end of the second year soon came, and it was here that so many of our fellow students concluded that it was a long narrow road that led to a Rush diploma, and that it did not take so much pluck to secure a diploma in an adjoining city, so a special train was secured for the land of moonshiners and fast horses. We also lost several members at the end of the year who feared that the medical profession with a large practice would be too trying on their constitutions, and that the farm promised a more quiet, luxuriant life. The next year promised more for our class than the previous one, for this was the year of the great Exposition. Many of our class secured positions as guides and guards at the Fair, and besides sleeping in water soaked bunks, 202

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-which we had many. We will append an account of one meeting: The pres- ident was in the chair. Rain-in-the-face, with a blood-curdling whoop, moves that the class roll be put on the invitations, seconded by Sharp and Smith. 'The president puts the motion and 137 of the 138 present arises to speak and each one speaks. Tarsi being deaf sits still. t'Warho1'se objects, for no one can pronounce his name if it were all over the invitations. Mrs, Gan- son's anchylosed face will not move and she sits down. Tensor wants Mrs. G. to speak: Sliver objects: IQIRBY begins to study: Trueman lashes his arms, roars, perspires, and hurling a threat at the opposite side, wants to wager his chances for getting plucked that he will never have his name on the invitation. The-young-man-afraid-of-the-professors wants anything but a position at the stock yards. Riordan says, Vy are ve all here togedder anyhow? XVhisk- ers wants to be heard: Shorty wants to read a committee report: Chrys- alobin asks the president to call him Doctor. The Boodlern calls for business. Papa says this is worse than a whole nursery of babies. Artie requests the loan of two dollars. Cope pulls his whiskers: Lottie sings Ta-ra-ra: the president calls for silence and says not more than II7 would be allowed to talk at once, for that annoyed him. Flagpole calls for blood: Della objects: Lord Fauntleroyn wants silence so he can sleep: Jewell tells a story: No. ISN takes his seat: Mrs. Lease still speaks loudly: Jerry Baldy pulls his back hair: VVindy dances his favorite ballet: Medical Man arrests Frogeater, and the meeting adjourns with I23 men talking. These items were partly taken from the secretary's report and are substantially correct. College life with its pleasures and happy surroundings has many dark places, and three times in our course we were reminded that life at most is short. Only a few months ago we were apprised that Mr. E. L. XVYCKOFF was dangerously sick in the Presbyterian Hospital. Day after day when inquiry was made at his room the nurse or attending physician could give us no hope that he was growing better. Finally it was announced that his mother had .arrived to see him, and only a few hours later that he was dead. No one not in contact with the class can imagine our sadness when we held a meeting that bright morning and made arrangements to pay the last tribute of respect to the life of our fellow class-mate, which had so suddenly gone out just in the morn- ing of his usefulness, and in the prime and vigor of life. He was honored by receiving a position as class officer, respected by all of his class for his frankness and liberality. Mr. BEHLE was sent to accompany the remains to his home at Rock Rapids, Iowa, resolutions of condolence were drafted, and the class did all in their power to console the sorrowful friends and relatives. As we leave Rush our life study has only begun. Wie have laid only the foundation for a medical education: we must continue to study if we expect to keep pace with the rapid advances in medicine. Wle ask your best wishes for four future success, and promise to strive faithfully to maintain the high repu- tation of Rush, and to hold sacred the dignity of our chosen profession, ever looking upward to our motto, Scientia et l-lumanitasf' ,lol-ix Ross. X fi mf F-5 V. ' -s-rf 1 JE : 20.1.