Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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(Hii % Urmnrg of Stan (Sa lorb f arsnna (Clark by % (Class of 19D9 irttratnrg Sritmtp nf Appmiatimt BY CHARLES W. HARGITT THE dedication of the current issue of the Onondagan to the late Dean of the College of Medicine, Professor Gaylord Parsons Clark, is in itself a tribute that bespeaks the high esteem in which this efficient and beloved teacher was held. I am asked by the editor to contribute a formal note of appreciation as a part of the dedicatory tribute— a task which fealty to my long-time friend and colleague constrains me to regard both an honor and a privilege. While not an alumnus in Arts of this university, his professional diploma allied him to it in bonds no less intimate and loyal. Its honor was his delight and pride, its progress one of his chief ambitions, its growing rank and influence an expression in no small measure of his devotion and industry. For the College of Medicine he had high didactic and professional ideals, cleancut views as to meth- ods and policy, and was unsparing in his efforts to secure their early realization. ' He had long perceived the intimate and essential relations of science to medical theory and practice, and was abreast of the procession of medical educators in seeking to achieve that correlation of biology and pathology which more than any one factor has served to render medicine, not an art merely, but pre-eminently a science as well. It was as a man of science that he was most widely known and esteemed. As a student of science he spared no pains nor effort to bring himself into famil- iar contact with the highest and best in the lines of his specialty. In his own laboratory, in the Marine Biological Laboratory, and in the laboratories of Jena 7