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

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Foreword The Senior Class of 1954, Temple University School of Medicine, presents the 1954 Skull. The publication this year attempts to portray typical life at Temple University Medical School, utilizing primarily a pictorial medium and employing a minimum of wordage. It has been our endeavor to maintain the excellent standards of production achieved in the past; but in addition, it has been our aim to accomplish certain additive improvements which we hope will make a new and better publication. This year, the Skull offers an organized presentation of each year and every phase of medical school life. Amusing cartoons, portraying the humorous side of medical education, introduce each specific section of the publication. The '54 Skull provides complete and organized coverage to the faculty section and includes amusing caricatures of faculty members, which will serve to perpetuate memories of those who have taught us in the years to come. Finally, the 54 Skull presents quotations, entertaining anecdotes, and an entire new section which will demonstrate social life, scenes, personalities, and life in the classrooms, clinics and conferences. In addition to these new special features, the 1954 Skull includes twelve sections, each providing, we hope, interest, entertainment, and an excellent record of life at the Temple University Medical Center. The named sections are Introduction, Medical Center, Administration and Dedication, Faculty, Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, Freshmen, Organizations, Activities, Technicians, and Nurses. The Skull Staff wishes to express its gratitude to all those who have helped to make this publication possible.

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 The physician needs a clear head and a kind heart; his work is arduous and complex, requiring the exercise of the very highest faculties of the mind, while constantly appealing to the emotions and finer feelings. At no time has his influence been more potent than at present, at no time has he been so powerful a factor for good, and as it is one of the highest possible duties of a great University to fit men for this calling, so it will be your highest mission, students of medicine, to carry on the never-ending warfare against disease and death, better equipped, abler men than your predecessors, but animated with their spirit and sustained by their hopes, 'for the hope of every creature is the banner that we bear'. Sir William Osier: Teaching Thinking, McGill Modical School Address, 1-1-1894