Rush Medical College - Pulse Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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.

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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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ZQJSXQZQZQHQZSQZQSQZQ lass llbropbecig DnLIVE1zEn ox Class IJ.-xr, Mu' 21, 1894. flfr. P1'5.vz'a'u11f, ffafzorizbft' Ezfzffzjf, f mr- lfmfus, Lmz'z'r5 mm' Gl'11fli'111uf1.' Now it came to pass as I tarried with my books that the hour did arrive in which I must of necessity hie me to my couch. 'Iihat meal which the landlady extolled in words such as are becoming only to landladies did gnaw and even tear away at my yitals. In sooth it was of that baser sort that incites a feeble stomach to rise and mutiny. It was well-nigh the hour when the church-yards yawn and solid girls do likewise. Then I replaced my books upon theirshelves, and taking off my garments did retire-my head all filled with epiblastic tumors, my stomach with things much worse. Verily, I was weighed down and sorely grieved, for slumber visited not mine eyelids, neither did sweet Morpheus come my way. At length, after much tossing and weariness, I slumbered, but my slumbers were not such as a babe sleepeth, for gruesome things did haunt me -thoughts weird and ghastly chased each other across my wearied brain, scorpions did rend my tiesh, and slimy serpents with forked tongues did crawl upon me and make me to writhe. Now it came to pass as I wrestled with these things unnatural and uncanny that at length I found myself in a forest dark and thick. , I know not how I got there, nor yet where it was. It mattered little. No sound to break the silence so oppressive save the occasional hoot of a distant owl and the sighing of the wind in its course through the tree-tops. Yea, verily, it was dark- so dark, in fact, that e'en one of Pharaoh's own body guards might well haye lost his way. And as I sat and did commune with myself--lo, there did appear a small uncertain light shining through the underbushes, and when I did behold it I straightway took heart, and smiting my thigh with my palm said, By the sword ofthe prophet,this is my deliverance Q and as I thus did commune with myself, the light e'en so drew near unto me, and as it came still closer I saw 2o5