Temple University School of Medicine - Skull Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE SKULL Russell H. Conwell ffi ORE than forty years ago there came to Philadelphia a man peculiarly fitted to do a definite work. 1 le was of New England ancestry, bom and reared at South Worthington. Massachusetts. After completing his studies at Wilbraham Academy, he entered Yale in 1S59. At nineteen he left college to enter the Union Army as captain. lie served two enlistments and was discharged with the rank of colonel. In 1865. Colonel Russell H. Conwell was graduated in law from Albany University. His experience was further broadened by his service as a newspaper correspondent at home as well as in foreign fields. He then entered upon what bade fair to be an unusually successful law practice in Boston, Massachusetts. Colonel Conwell felt the call to religious sendee; he relinquished his law practice, enrolled at Newton Theological Seminary and was ordained in the Christian ministrv in 1879. After a short pastorate in Lexington. Massachusetts, the Rev. Russell II. Conwell accepted the call to Grace Baptist Church, Philadelphia, and entered upon his duties on Thanksgiving Day, 1882. Two years later there came to the Pastor’s study a young man seeking advice. lie desired to enter the ministry, but lacked the necessary education. A small group, inclining this young man, were gathered together for instruction by Rev. Russell H. Conwell. This class grew and in two years required a separate building and many teachers. In 1888. the charter of Temple College was secured and the power to confer degrees granted. The same year, day school was established. On December 12, 1907. the charter was amended, changing the name to Temple University. The professional schools and hospitals developed with the University. The enrollment is now more than 11.000 students, all due to this modest beginning by Rev. I)r. Conwell in 1884, and with his characteristic energy continued up to the present time. Temple University came into l cing because Doctor Conwell believed that humanity's problems could l e solved by education and the recognition of universal brotherhood. With steadfast faith in this ideal, he applied himself diligently to bring it into realization; in this effort he has given an example of supreme sacrifice and unselfishness. The satisfaction of service and the joy of achievement represented by the life of Doctor Conwell comes with peculiar significance to medical men. Their lives will be richer because of this heritage and through them the ideal of Rev. Russell 11. Conwell will go on to further realization, making the world better and happier because of it. 14 C. Arthur Scott.

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THE SKULL HE Medical Department of Temple University advocates a high standard in medical education. Its teachers are carefully selected from men and women well qualified by training, education and experience for teaching their special subjects. The high standard attained by the graduates of this department before the various state boards of medical examiners lias been prc-cminentlv satisfactory, a fact of which the institution is justly proud. The Samaritan Hospital was opened to the students, and clinical teaching is conducted in the amphitheatre, dispensaries and wards of this growing institution. The Faculty was gradually and carefully increased, and conditions improved as the classes grew. In the year 1907. the Temple College was granted the title of Temple University bv the courts of Philadelphia. This made the Medical Department in name as in fact the department of a great University. Shortly after the granting of the name Temple University, there was an affiliation of the Temple University with the Philadelphia Dental College and the Garretson Hospital and the Medical School was, in 1907, transferred to the Philadelphia Dental College buildings. Eighteenth and Buttonwood Streets. This at once gave the school commodious quarters. The Medical Department of the Temple University, in 1901. had thirty-one matriculates, for the year 1924-1925 it enrolled 222 students. In the 1907 the school established a four-year day course of eight and a half months each. During the past year new laboratories have been constructed and equipped in Histology and Embryology; Physiology; Bacteriology and Pathology: Physiological Chemistry and the Anatomical Rooms. The Museum has been altered to make it serve the practical purpose for daily teaching and not a room to house a ‘‘collection of material. The Library, in charge of a full-time librarian, is continually adding new books and periodicals. The present Faculty consists of four Emeritus Professors, twenty Professors, four Clinical Professors, fourteen Associate Professors, sixteen Associates, seventeen Lecturers, thirteen Demonstrators, seventeen Instructors and thirty-one Clinical Assistants, a total of one hundred and thirty-six. The Temple University has three hospitals which are used for clinical instruction. The greater portion of the teaching is done at the Samaritan Hospital; the Grcatheart Hospital is devoted to maternity cases and the Garretson Hospital also is used for clinical teaching. In addition the student body is assigned for instruction to the Philadelphia General Hospital, the Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases and the Eagleville Sanitarium with its dispensary service at the Phipps Institute. A new wing to the Samaritan Hospital soon will l e completed and alterations will be made to the old wing, so that the new Samaritan Hospital will have three hundred beds.

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REV. RUSSELL H. CON WELL, 1 ).! .. 1.1. D.