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

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DAVID GREGG MKTHENY. M.D.

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Qthtf § kuU greetings From President cBeury y As the new President of Temple University, I am happy to send my greetings to the graduating class of the Medical school. Although the medical school has not had the showy buildings and elaborate equipment which might be desired, it was possible to offset this by the splendid record which its graduates have made in the pursuit of their profession. After all. the world’s great work is not done bv men who live in marble palaces but by those who have had to struggle from modest beginnings and to carry forward and upward to positions of usefulness and prominence. Our new program for Temple University is an ambitious one. Within the next few years, if plans are realized, we shall have adequate facilities for all departments. One of our weaknesses has beep the ignorance of the public concerning the university—its size and scholastic standards. This should lie changed quite rapidly by the sustained publicity campaign which is now being inaugurated. An institution that is as unique, as essentially helpful and as large as Temple University deserves to be known the country over. 1 A ' j t J N V' . I So as you young men go out to your life positions of ministration, you may take with you the assurance that it is only a matter of a comparatively short time until the prestige of your university will aid you in your work and make your service more helpful to mankind. Hut this thought keep ever in mind— for it is especially true to those of the medical profession—the criterion of a man’s success is not so much the money he earns, as the out-reach of his usefulness to the community in which he lives. It would be a pity if 'Temple University should train men for financial success without making them more helpful to society and the nation. r V vy Charles E. Beury. 7

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3n fRrmuriam DAVID GREGG METHENY. M.D.. L.R.CS. (Edin.), L.R.C.P. (Edin). L.F.P.S. (Glasgow) Professor of Anatomy and Histology We deeply realize that to us has been vouchsafed the privilege and the honor of association and instruction from the Spirit of a Man. The sad and silent Hand of Death has deprived us of the Friendship of one to whom friendship was the highest attribute of men. His life was one of adventure, a romance with which some novelist might stir the world and yet he attained the highest rank and recognition within his chosen profession. I ie brought the training of great universities. knowledge gleaned from the far-flung corners of the earth, the broad experiences of a lifetime, and laid them in willing sacrifice at our feet. In what seems now to have been fateful and significant terms, he often expressed his hope and faith that his own contribution to life would be manifested through us. As we passed from beneath his care, the fibrils of his heartstrings folded like the lilies of the field, but the fragrance of their fruitage gave fresh emanations at our slightest touch. David Gregg Methenv had but one heart to give to a class and he gave it to us unselfishly and nobly. He is not dead, but has simply changed his form to lx our Guardian Spirit in the few short years to come and we may rest assured he will never call a roll. Leaves have their time to fall. And flowers wither at the northwind's breath. And stars to set. but all. Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death. We know when moons shall wane. When summer birds from far shall cross the sea. When autumn’s hue shall tinge the golden grain. But who shall teach us when to look for thee?—Hamms. M. S., ’25. 9