Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Stanford Univcrsitv Medical Department In May, l ' ' lo. Stanf. ird L ni crsity will graduate its first class in Medicine. This event will sii nalize the coni- ]5letion i)f the tirst steps taken by the L ' niversity for the development of AJedical teaehins; ' . h ' or years Stan- lord University has L;iven pre-medical education of the hii hest grade and it was hut natural that the University should accept the property of Cooper Medical College when it was tendered to it as a Ijasis for a new Medical Schnol. Cooper Medical College has a long and hon- orable histor -. In 1858 the first medical school on the Pacific Coast, known as the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific. was organized by Dr. Coop- er, later assisted by his neiihew. Dr. Levi Cooper Lane. With the early death of Dr. Cooper in 1862 the school went to pieces but was revived in 1870. and in 1882 members of its Faculty were organized by Dr. Lane into the Faculty of Cooper Medical College, named in honor of Dr. Coo])er, and occupying the then new building erected in San Francisco l)y Dr. Lane on the northeast corner of Sacramento and Webster Streets. Later the Lane Hospital was built on an adjoining lot. and Dr. Lane left the major portion of his property for the endow- ment of the Lane Medical Library. Cooper Medical College did much to raise the standard of Medical teaching in the West. Init with the introduction of laboratory teaching it became evident that onh- endowed Medical schools could hope to do the best class of work so the Faculty of the institution offered it to the Trustees of Stanford L ' niversity with l)ut the single obliga tion that it sin mid be used as the basis of a Department of Medicine granting the M. D. degree. Since this action of the Trustees and Faculty in accepting the properties of Cooper Medical College was consummated, rai)id strides have been made in the development of Medical teaching in the Universitv. Doctor Rav Lvniaii Wilbur

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I believe in sound educatinn, in knowing things as thev really are, for what reall v is is the work (if the highest powers. I believe in the rigid methods of science, and in the gentler methods of art, liy which we are led through that which we love to that which is true. ' hatever we care for is a means of grace, the fine old phrase the preachers once used, but which we can take for wdiatever influence of nature or of art tends to make us gentler, more enthusi- astic, more tolerant or nmre sincere. I believe in fair play among men and hence in the endless struggle against precedence and privileg ' e which we call democracy. 1 belie ' e in the ])eii|)le ' s side. This is the people ' s country and it is for them to be wise enough and just enough to hold their own against all tyranny of organized interests or of organized ignorance. And the final outcome depends on the individual. If b} ' nature and education the average man is a good citizen, the republic will grdw stronger with each generation. P.ut if the individual cannot hdld his own by courage, character and intelligence he will Iniihl up new tvrannies against wdiich the furnis of freedom will be nf little avail. Slaverv has its source within, nm without. And as fair plav anmng men is necessary to the stability ot societv so is fair plav anmng nations to the staliility ot civilizaticm. It always pays for a naticm to be a gentleman, is a tine |ihrase of Air. Roosevelt. And as gentlemen in America ha e ])ut aside the |iisl(il ami llie duel, so must the arnn ami the warship anish in the relatinns nt nations. .-Xlready the penple nf the world ha e come to understand- ings among themselves. W ar and war preparation are but remains of an e il habit. Xnthing liap])ens in an instant in the great world of men. but we can look fcirwarel to the end of war and ot all tornis of organized robbery, the chief motive of war. As the coat of mail anisheil from Kin-opean history, almost o -er night, so will the soldier and the warship anish. when all men see as clearly as you and 1 see nnw the wild insensate folly of it all. D.WID STARR |(JRD. X. 14

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