Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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' ' gual T Department of Medicine igio The establishnu-nt of the I )epartiiK ' iit nf .Medicine is perhaps tlie most important step Stanford University has taken in recent years. No line of human achievement has made more wonderful advances in the past fifty years than have the biological sciences upon which Medicine is founded. For many years there has been a desire on the part of many inter- ested in the two institutions to form some sort of union Ijetween Cooper Medical College and Stanford University. Of the various plans proposed the one that finally prevailed was consummated in November of 1908 by the transfer of all the valuable properties and equipment of Cooper Medical College to Stanford University, and by the organization by the University Trustees of the Department of ] Iedicine of Leland Stanford Junior University. The Department of Medicine thus organized is an integral part of the University on an equal footing with other University departments, being as they are under the control of the Board of Trustees, the President and the Academic Council. Through the great liberality and self-sacrifice of Dr. Levi Cooper Lane, supplemented by gifts from other public-spirited citizens of San Francisco, Cooper !vledical College had acquired very valuable properties consisting of the College buildings and Lane Hospital in San Francisco, an exceptionally fine medical library and provision for a new library building. Now, as Stanford has for years made provision in some of the departments for the teaching of the courses on which IMedicine is founded, the L niversity already has splendidly equipped laboratories and libraries in Physiology, Histology, Embryology, Chemistry. Physics and Hygiene. With the laboratories at Stanford and the buildings at San Fran- cisco and the libraries in both places the new Department of Medicine has fortunately most substantial advantages for making its beginning in the coming academic year. The modern Medical School is a large and complex enterprise. It could not under any circumstances spring into complete stature in a single year. The plan that has been adopted at Stanford wisely provides for a progressive growth of the Department. The course in Medicine leading to the degree of M. D. is to extend through four years. During 1909-10 the courses of the First Year of the Medical Department proper will be given. During 1910-11 the courses of the Second Year will be added, and so on until 1912-13 and after, when the courses of all four years, or the full Medical course will be in operation. The laboratory courses will be given mainly at Stanford in departments now in existence, while the clinical, surgical and hos- pital work will be carried on in the buildings at San Francisco. In this way the work of the first three semesters of the Medical course will be done at Stanford while the last five semesters ' work will be completed at San Francisco. 22

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vinced the Freshmen of hearty support and encouragement from the bleachers. A few moments after the Froshes had taken their position in front of the south bleachers the Sophomores entered, garbed in as motley a fashion as their rivals. From appearances the advantage in numbers seemed to be with the second year men. Taunting yells and gibes filled the air while the officials distributed bandages and instructions. Promptly at three o ' clock Referee Presley gave the signal of combat and the fight was on. Contrary to expectations the Sophomores re- mained on the defensive and it was the supposedly timid Freshmen who opened the battle instead of their much vaunted opponents. The battle had raged only a few moments, however, before it became apparent that the Sophomores would secure the victory. In exactly twenty-four min- vites after the gun had been discharged the Sophomores deposited the last of their one hundred and sixty husky opponents in the morgue, and the laurels of the day rested with 191 1. Though short, the struggle was fierce and furious, and 191 1 only gained the victory through greater num- bers and superior organization. Sixty-nine second-year men were de- posited in the Freshman morgue, and a dab of paint indicated their defeat and denial of further participation. Several features marked the superiority of this year ' s combat over its predecessors. Better accommodations for spectators, the decisiveness of the fight, the superiority for the purpose of Stanford Field over the Varsity baseball diamond, and the greater number of first year participants were noted in connection with this most recent under-class rush. At three-thirty the college public readily conceded the fact that the Sophomores had sustained the inalienable right of the second-year men to guide and govern for one vear the destinies of Nineteen Twelve. Stanford Quad 1910

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Cooper Medical College