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

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FRANK C HAMMOND. M.D.. F.A.C.S.

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7HKPLAMA cDr. Russell H. Qonwell President Conwcll was pre-eminently a dreamer of dreams and a seer of vision, but he had the rare power of bringing his dreams to pass and of having his visions become realities. He was a man of infinite patience. To use his own frequent quotation, he could afford to wait,” but he worked while he waited. His motto chosen for the university from the very beginning was, “Perseverantia Vincit.” He believed that the good in all men was greater than the evil. He could always see the good and overlook the evil. Frequently he quoted from Milton. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” When storms raged around him he could live serenely within himself. lie was seldom known to hurry or to worry unduly. He did not favor very strongly reform movements from without, but felt they must always come from within whether it be in politics, religion or in one’s individual life. He taught men and women to make the best of their present surroundings first; that Acres of Diamonds lay at their own door. In his own life he insisted upon doing one thing at a time and upon doing that thing well. No matter how many other things were waiting for his doing they had to take their turn without any evidence of hurry. He was a close observer of men and things with a photographic memory. He never forgot a face. He remembered every detail of a scene he had once seen in his journeys, up and down the earth. A page of a l ook once carefully read was his forever. 1 ly middle life he had a great storehouse so filled and so ordered that he could draw from it for facts and materials that made it possible for him to speak forcibly and well upon almost any theme with little and often no previous preparation. He loved the New England hills where he was bom with a rare devotion, but when he came to Philadelphia to live he made it his own city and never had it a more loyal citizen. 1 le loved it and felt an undying gratitude toward it. He came to it with love in his heart for it. It had been kind to him as a young soldier. He had been wounded in one of the battles of the Civil War and had been brought to one of its great war hospitals where he had been tenderly ministered to by a Sister of Charity. I Ic never forgot. When he came back to it many years later he came with that kindly memory as a help to the understanding of the true Philadelphia that lies beneath its colder exterior. He did not have to wait long until he was received as one of its manners bom. No single citizen of Philadelphia has tried to do more for it than he. No one has perhaps been more universally acclaimed: none in his going, more universally mourned. A great leader has been taken from our midst, but the inspiration of his spirit remains with us to inspire us still to lives of usefulness and service. Lu ka H. Carxell, Associate President. 3 59431

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