University of Maryland School of Medicine - Terrae Mariae Medicus (Baltimore, MD)

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These freshmen, standing on the preclinical side of Greene St., are probably thinking of almost nothing at the moment but Anatomy. In the background looms what for them is yet to come, when as seniors and interns days, nights, and weekends will be spent in the Hospital.

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A DEDICATION Not alone to the student who for a few brief years is detained within these walls and is then released to take up the profession to which he has been introduced; but also to those in the later years who maintain the devotion, the enduring energy, to know the truth and let it be their guide, do we, the editors, dedicate this book. This school, this cluster of buildings here in downtown Baltimore, by its very nature, by the simple fact of its having been erected at all, is also dedicated to the same individuals; just as have solid buildings and temples for centuries past. But all this tradition and these fine buildings are not erected for the student and the student alone. We are students for a reason, and all this energy to make us students is not directed at learning in the abstract, but in its application. It is hoped that in learning all these sub- jects and facts and in applying them that we will not forget the one to whom the entire effort is directed, the patient.

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HARRY CLIFTON BYRD, B.S., L.L.D., D.Sc. Over at his College Park campus Curley may seem a little remote to most of the medical students, but his influence is very real in the Baltimore division of the University. As President of the University since 1936, after a nineteen-year reign as football coach and four years as assistant to the President and Vice President, he has had a guiding hand in the main physical develop- ment of the Baltimore schools as well as the better-known mushrooming of the College Park plant. His guiding theme at College Park, A place in Maryland University for anyone in the state who wants to attend, is consistently assailed by his implacable foe, the Sunpapers; but this smoldering war has so far only caused Curley the inconvenience of writing a statement to the press in reply. Possible contributing to his success in getting the legislature to promote the University ' s expansion are the usual aids which any politician needs: he is a native son (Crisfield 1889), is handsome, can speak well, and is a member of the necessary fraternal orders and societies.