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

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Labor Omnia Vincit To the Class of 3J. THIS is an event long hoped for, long despaired of, but which has finally come to pass. For four long years you have labored and struggled with lectures, laboratories, conferences, clinics and textbooks, keeping your footsteps directed toward a goal which you have finally reached. Your associations during this time will have an important bearing on your future. They who were instrumental in giving you new ideas and better methods, imbued you with higher ideals and exerted beneficent influences, have had as much parental interest in you as they who gave you brawn and sinew. Responsibilities now shift. You will no longer be judged by your instructors, for any errors or shortcomings you will not be answerable to your professors, but to your consciences. Your obligation is the care of human beings and the prolongation of their lives, a most worthy labor. Never before has the art and science of medicine offered so many means of accurate diagnosis and successful treatment both of disease and of accident as it offers today. Medicine in all its branches is the one science whose aim is to alleviate suffering, to save limb and prolong life. This is a glorious and sacred duty, and it has been done nobly, often at the sacrifice of the lives of its heroes. The privileges and opportunities which you en joyed at the Temple 1'niversity Medical School will always remain with you. The promise of the future of your Alma Mater rests with you of the graduating class and your successors. See to it that you cherish a noble ambition to achieve success by deserving success. I congratulate you on entering so deservedly honored a profession. Your success will depend upon what your intelligence, your judgment, vour character and your efforts make it. That vour professional activities will be reflected in a life’s work well done is the abiding good wish of Your friend and teacher. Thirteen

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Life History of Hr. Saylor DR. SA LOR was l)orn in Quakcrtown, Pa., May ( . 1874. Hr received his preliminary education in the school of his native town and for five years following his graduation from the local high school, he taught there. Seeking larger fields, he came to the City of Brotherly Love, and entered the 'Government service. Since childhood chemistry had always fascinated him, to he a chemist was his ambition. Thus, in 1900 he enrolled in Drexel Institute for a four-year course. During his senior year he was induced to complete the supervision of the chemistry laboratory at Jefferson Medical College and upon his graduation was made a permanent member of the Jefferson faculty. He had no sooner begun to teach at Jefferson when he realized that a medical education was what lie needed in order to teach chemistry to medical students and so. in 1915. we find him receiving his M.I). degree cum laudum. His rise in the chemical department of Jefferson Medical College was phenomenal: starting as supervisor of the laboratory he was made demonstrator, associate and associate professor successively. From 1908 to 1919, lie also taught chemistry at Drexel Institute: from 1911-1922, he taught toxicology at Jefferson. He was beloved by all the “Jeff” students and could call each by his name even years after graduation. It was with a distinct feeling of sorrow, therefore, that they bid him “goodby” when, in 1922 he left that institution to become our professor of physiological chemistry. And Temple rejoiced at his coming! His lectures were so clear and concise that students oft made the mistake of not taking notes feeling that the knowledge would remain with them forever. He would describe the technique of various experiments with such inimitable mannerisms that the boys could almost hear the 5 cc. being poured into a test-tube. Ilis interest in the students' welfare was unlimited and his plans for a greater Temple Medical were crystallized when, in our Freshman year, he started the movement which finally led to our having a new building. Dr. Saylor now resides at North Wales, Pa. He was married in 189(5 to Fdith Spear and has six children. His hobby is reading scientific books and never a night passes unless it has seen him reading until the wee hours. He has said that one of his “secret ambitions is to surround himself with libraries of books and do nothing but read to his heart’s content. Dr. Saylor is a member of Philadelphia Section of the Chemical Society, the American Chemical Society, the American Association of I niversitv Professors. the American Association for Advancement of Science, and the Sigma Phi Kpsilon, Omega I psilon Phi and Alpha Omega Alpha Fraternities. Tic rlvc

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