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

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ID IP. IPOXIDT’S MESSAGE To the Senior Class: 1 salute the Class of 1930 in its publication of the Skull. It is the comprehensive story of a four year environment. It records impressions and reactions. It is the written acknowledgment of the second epoch in your career in medicine, the first being your matriculation, the third will be your establishment in practice. My message to your collated valedictory of these years of earnest work in the study of the healing art will find its best expression in the following abstract from the writings of Professor William Pepper: “Through the ages from the early dawn of human understanding, the Medicine Man has pursued his strange yet sacred calling. Possessed of knowledge which sets them apart, dealing ever with the tremendous and baffling problems of life and death, looked to by all when suffering and danger impend, worshipped as divine and hailed as deliverers when the issue is good, or derided and punished for their failures, the Doctors have always enjoyed strange experiences. . . . Through it all, the belief of the people in the healing art has remained true; through it all the aim of the Doctor has remained noble; and the larger light of knowledge of these later days in defining clearly the splendid service rendered to humanity by medicine. It is no longer merely the personal relation of doctor to patient and the personal service; there is coming now the infinitely broader relation of sympathy and confidence betwen the entire community and the whole medical profession, engaged in a common work of discovering and removing the cause of disease! Fellow students of the Senior Class your opportunities arc golden. Be optimistic and cheery. Hold fast to high standards. Maintain a fine code. In conclusion may I as your colleague suggest that you fit your lives to'this verse of Whittier. No crusade thine for cross or grave. But for the living man. Go forth to succor and to save, All that thy skilled hands can. Sincerely, Your Friend, John B. Roxby. Sixteen