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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
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and Leipzig, he sought and achieved results which brought him deserved recog- nition among his colleagues at home and abroad. But his chief concern was less for these results as achievements in themselves, than for their relations to prob- lems of medical education, and through this to progress of medical science. As thus equipped and visioned for Ins professional duties his work as a teacher was pre-eminent, both in its didactic results and its inspirational stimulus. But however esteemed as scientist and teacher, virtues of manhood and strength of character shed still finer luster to his fame. It is sometimes said, though with less emphasis or frequency than formerly, that science tends to dull the finer sensibilities or atrophy the esthetic sentiments of ones nature. And further, that the specialist in science is deplorably narrow, highly conceited, and intolerably intolerant. Again, there is still heard now and then the decadent and vanishing echo of that imaginary conflict of science and religion, which so harassed the thought of a former generation, and one is admonished of the re- ligious philistinism of the average scientific specialist. But the answer to all this is the scientist ' s appeal to fact. And in this con- nection it is unnecessary to seek our facts afar. In the subject of this tribute was a scientist, indeed a specialist in science, in whose open and transparent life there is abundant refutation of these calumnies. In this life, farthest from pretense or dispay, were conspicuously blended those keen and critical methods of the scientist and that esthetic sense which revels in quiet rapture in the pres- ence of art, or music, or poetry. Here, too, with no ripple of discord or confus- ion, those rigid qualities of research, following the scientific method, and a faith at once simple, devout, broad and sublime, were intimately correlated and har- monized. His faith suffered no eclipse in the presence of his science, — his science was not embarrassed in the presence of his faith. And thus in a progressive culmination is there portrayed in briefest outline the more pertinent traits of a life no less beautiful than rare, which go to make up the measure of the man;— strength and courage blended with gentleness and generosity; critical and discriminating methods and skill, yet tempered by breadth and tolerance; self-reliant and independent in thought and action, yet reverent- ially and trustfully devout. We cherish his memory. Shall we not emulate the virtues and nobility of his manly life ! 8
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