San Francisco Hospital School of Nursing - Cap and Seal Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Drugs and Solutions Miss Schenck is 1ny teacher, I shall not pass. She maketh me answer dense problems For my grades sake. She maketh me draw figures on the board. She leadeth me to display my ignorance, Before the class. Yea-tho' I study until midnight- I shall gain no solutions. The grams bother me, The drains sore trouble me, Surely zeros and quizzes will follow me All the days of my life, And I shall dwell in the class of drugs And solutions forever. 1 1 1 Feelings of a Night Nurse PM UN-MIT-I-GAT-ED-LY tiredg These eyelids are heavy and achy, My feet move as though they were mired, My hinges are wabbly and shaky. I'm useless for going and fetching, My lips have no hymn for the dawning, My arms have no mission but stretching, My mouth has no purpose but yawning. Though worshipers throng to Apollo, Not I would be one of their number. The god Whom I drowsily follow ' Is Morpheus, the patron of slumber. I care not who else may be working, I care not who else may be playing, I care not who thinks that lim shirking, I care not what ever they're saying. I praise not your sowers nor reapers Nor paladins eager for combat, But honor those glorious sleepers, The dormouse, the bear and the Wombat. I envy the petrel renewing Her nap in the trough of the billow, For all that I want to be doing Is making a dent in a pillow. Now, free of the fetters that bind you, I'm leaving the tolls that appall you, So shut the door gently behind you And don't wake me up till I call you. ARTHUR GUITERMAN Page 56

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ONE TEACHER AND HER YOUNGSTERS Page 55

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6 lfffffor a Nurse iWith apologies to Kiplingj If you can leave your home and go in training When all therein are so opposed to it, If you can stand the years of work and study, And always have a love for doing it, If you can take the blame so often given, Though in despair, your spirit never sunk, And never went off duty in a hurry, And in a temper never packed your trunk, If you can have night duty forced upon you, More times than any pupil ever had, If you can get up early for the lectures, And be wide awake and say it isn't baduz If you can lose those precious late passes For coming in at night ten minutes late, If you go about your duties calmly, Vlith not a Word or thought of hateg If when your time for training in Surgery Arrives, and you feel somewhat like a Dunce, If you remember all the rules and technique, And never are corrected more than onceg If when the head of that department Takes you to task, for work youive left undone J If you can take it all without an answer, And profit by that talk and every oneg If you can serve a tray of any diet XVith equal skill that you can make a bedg If you can rush from clinic to the nursery And in an emergency never lose your head: If at all times you can remember The pledge you took in training, without fear To lead the life of Florence Nightingaleg Then you'll be a NURSE, my dear. f 1 1 The Probie's Wish I wish I was a Senior A'wearing a blue band, A'doing nothing all day long But just ailooking grand. I wouldn't scrub, I wouldn't scour, I Wouldn't even study. Pd just sit still and visit lots With an lnterne, or anybody. Page 57