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

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 New Medical School

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TIHIE MEDICAL SCHCOL IN DIET IRCS IP ECT ELDOM do wc find, even in the realms of romance, a more entrancing story than that which tells of Temple University. So well known, however, has this story become that we need but recall its barest outline, as a fit background for this brief sketch of the Medical School. That will always be a historic day—or rather, night, when, in December 1884, that little group of young men seeking help to a higher education, found a sympathetic friend and teacher in the pastor of Grace Baptist Church, then located at Berks and Mervine Streets, Philadelphia. Likewise was it a day of historic import, when, only four years later, with these seven parlor students and their teacher, grown to a night school of nearly six hundred, a charter was obtained, and Temple College came into official existence. And again was the date historic, when in 1891, to the rapidly growing night school, a day department was added, and the great future possibilities of this new kind of educational institution began to dawn on the city of Philadelphia, as they had long dominated the dreams of the far-visioned Founder. It was now possible for President Conwell to carry out his cherished ideal of “democratic higher education by being able to provide classes at any hour, day or evening, for which a sufficient number of students applied, and in any subject for which there was a real demand. “Find out what the people need, and supply it, became quite as much the key to success in this unique new college, as its versatile founder had often proclaimed it to be in the affairs of life generally. Demands upon the new College were now multiplying rapidly, and from all sides. This sketch, however, can only very briefly note expansions in the direction of the professional schools. In 1895 a Theological Department was opened, and in 1895, a Law School, both of which have since grown to enviable place and reputation among institutions of their kind throughout the country. In 1901 a fully organized School of Pharmacy was established. In 1904, came a school of Civil Engineering, and three years later one of the oldest and best Dental Colleges in the country, joined heart and hand with the new and popular institution. The year 1901 achieved additional historic renown for having given birth to :hat member of the University family in which The Skull is particularly interested. It has been suggested that this was one of Temples “coming out parties where “Time's noblest offspring is the last might have been modestly modified into “Temple's Medical Offspring is the Noblest! At any rate the Medical Department of the new University had its origin in 1901. Quoting the school's first Dean, the late Dr. I. Newton Snivcly: “The Medical Department of Temple University, like all 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. President Conwell had frequently been appealed to by students from other departments, for a course so arranged that they could earn a living and college expenses, and at the same time secure a medical education. Sixteen