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

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SAMARITAN' HOSPITAL

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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

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 The iMedical Department of Temple University The Medical Department of the Temple University, like all the other departments of this institution, was not opened until a demand was made by a representative number of ambitious young men and women for an evening course. Prcsiden Conwell had frequently been appealed to by students of other departments for a course, so arranged, that they could earn a living and college expenses and at the same time pursue a course in medicine. In the spring of 1901 the Board of Trustees decided to open an evening medical school. A faculty and department was organized, and a circular arranged, announcing that a course consisting of five years' evening instruction would lie given by Temple College. The first faculty consisted of twenty professors, lecturers, demonstrators and instructors. The curriculum was so arranged that the same number of hours would be devoted to it as in the day schools. There were alxiut thirty students matriculated for the college session of 1901 2. It was found that the students who applied for evening instruction in medicine, were willing to make any personal sacrifice to acquire a medical education. They, therefore, applied themselves most diligently to the work. The evening school was discontinued on account of legislation in the various States by which graduates of an evening school were prevented from appearing before the respective State boards for licensure. Tile high standard attained by the graduates of this department before the various State boards of medical examiners has been preeminently satisfactory, a fact of which the institution is justly prowl. t AT s V t 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 awl carefully increased and conditions improved as the classes grew, in the year 1907, the Temple College was granted the title of Temple University by 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 Deaprtment of the Temple University, in 1901, had thirty-one matriculates: for the year 1925-1926, it enrolled 223 students. In the year 1907 the School established a four years' day course of eight and a half months each. During the past two years new laboratories, have l»ccn constructed awl equipped in Histo)6gy and Embryology. Physiology, Bacteriology and Pathology, Physiological Chemistry awl the Anatomical Rooms. The Museum has been altered to make it serve the practical pun of daily teaching, and not a room to house a collection of material.'’ The l.ibrary, in charge oi a full time Librarian, is continually adding new books awl periodicals. The present Faculty consists of four Emeritus Professor , twenty Professors, four Clinical Professors, sixteen Associate Professors, eighteen Associates, nineteen Lecturers, ten Demonstrators, twenty Instructors and twenty-four Clinical Assistants. The Temple University has three hospitals which are used for clinical instructing. The greater portion of the teaching is done at the Samaritan Hospital; the C.reatheart Hospital is devoted to maternity cases, and the Garret son Hospital also is used for clinical teaching. In addiioiv the student body is assigned for instruction to the Philadelphia General Hospital, the Philadelphia Hospital for Contagious Diseases and the Eaglcvillc Sanitarium with its dispensary service at the Phipps Institute. A new wing to the Samaritan Hospital has liecn completed and alterations made to the old wing, so that the. new Samaritan Hospital has three hundred bedsr it has two lecture rooms, a mortuary with a seating capacity of thirty; numerous model for teaching purposes, a clinical amphitheatre, and a library In charge of a full time librarian. President Bcury has announced the launching of a Twenty Million Dollar Campaign for the University, to l e known as the Russell U. Conwell Foundation for Temple University. This foundation will consecrate itself to raising the fund over a period of fifteen years.. Of this amount, two million dollars will l c used for the, erection of buildings for housing the School of Medicine, awl two million dollars will lie set aside to constitute an endowment fund for the medical school. FRANK C. HAMMOND.