University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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Retrospect and Prospect BY SAMUEL C. CHEW Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in tlie University of Maryland ' T HE first decade of years of the twentieth century will witness the close of the first hun- dred years of the existence of the University of Maryland. This period is lirief in comparison with the duration of institutions in the old world, . c, comparison, for example, with that which makes venerable the ancient seats of learninnf at Padua, at Bologna, or at Oxford, but it is enough to give the note of antiquity to cis-Atlantic things- Old tradi- tions, time-honored customs and far-reaching memories have their value, it is true, and should be cherished. For though the energy and grasp of youth are better than the weakness of age, yet herein is found a contrast between individuals and institutions. The former in the lapse of time and in the conditions of humanity must sooner or later fail ; whereas the latter, though growing in years, may never grow infirm ; weakness may never afifect them, and while sur- rounded by that which should accompany old age, as honor, love and troops of friends, they may still flourish in all the vigor of vouth. And so, viewing the matter in ])art from the side of material results and in part from the side of feeling, if we find the ITniversity of Maryland striving to make the best of its means, striving to increase, and ever increasing its resources and facilities for teaching ; establishing new departments of instruction, and raising higher and higher its standard of requirements, then those who are now, and who hereafter are to be the Alumni of this school, may find satis- faction in the thought that they are not iioi ' i homines, but that they are bound with their Alma Mater to the traditions of an honorable past. At the sam time they may rejoice that their school is active in advancing the science and learning of the present, and will take its part in accomplishing the good results which the future has in store. On the banks of the Thames may he seen the spires and antique towers ' ' of a seat of learning where for four hundred and fifty years, from a time reaching far down the centuries and onward to our own day, many of the noblest intellects of England have been trained for their great careers. Here Chatham began to qualify himself for a work in Parliament, which should cause his name to be cherished in the heart of every American ; here Wellington laid the foundation of that splendid military ability that enabled him to win the fight of Waterloo, which, as he himself said, was begun on the field of Eton : here Gladstone began a life of per- sistent labor, which is almost without parallel in the annals of the human intellect ; and yet we 17

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Illustrations — Continued Class of 1904 70 Class Members 1905 (Photo) 74 Veils 80 Athletics Si . Football Team lyoj. ( Photo) R4 Fraternities 87. f« Phi Sigma Kappa, ( Photo) 91 Kappa Sigma, ( Photo) 93 Kappa Psi. ( Photo) ' . 95 Xi Psi Phi, (Photo) 97 Phi Kappa Sigma, (Photo) 99 Psi Omega, (Photo) lOi Clubs 103 X ' irgitiia Club. (IMiotn) 105 West Virginia Club. I Photo) 107 North Carolina Club, (l ' h(.to) 109 Maryland l ' nivtrMt Club. il ' b..lii) Ill Our Hero I IJ The Manager no Bacchus Club 20 Dftu.il : 123 I )eMl;il Faculty. ( Photo) I J4 Ihe llaydeii llarri- Memorial 126. 127 Class Officers 1902. ( Photo) l l Class Members 1902, (Photo) i.?2, 13.?. i.?5 History of 1902 136 Roasts 139 .Soubreltes U.I . Student ' s Pipe Dream 144 Our N ' ero 151 To the Health of Dental Department 152 Cupid 153 .■ n Engagement with lUr l)euli-i 154 Prophecy. 1902 ■ ' .i3 Page. The Owl .158 J. F. Ewing. (Photo I 159 I )eiU;il Forceps and Tooth 164 Junior Class Members. (Photo) 165 History, 1903 167 Class Members 1904, ( Photo) 169 Who Said Freshman ? 170 ' History, 1904 172 Law Department — What It Will Come To .... 175 Class of 1902 176 Class Officers 1902, (Photo) 177 Class Members 1902, (Photol 170. i8i History Class of 1902 182 Prophecy Class of 1902. 185 Class Members 1903, ( Photo) 188 Class History 1903 191 Class Members 1904. (Photo) 194 History Class i()04. -.197 1 -aw Faculty. ( Photo I 199 Crinds 200 (Juizzes 202 In Lighter V ' ein 205 The Craven 206 The Pose of a Maryland Law Student 207 Mr Casey 208 Love ' s Kiss 210 Roufjuets 211 A Summer Idyl .214 Remind Me Not 2l8 Hetty 219 . n Interruption 220 Campus ' it.T 221 Ihe Cakewalk 222 Our , dvertisemenl 222 16

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may well lielicve tliat over and above tlic sense of intellectual power and acliieveineiit which is, as it were, in the very air they breathe, the men of ICton of today are elevated and stimulated by the thoujjht that theirs is the home — In a new countrv like ours, such anti(iuity and the feelini s and associations belonging to it. cannot, of course, exist : but all such thin.ufs are relative, and neither can Eton claim such age as the University of Padua, which nourished early in the thirteenth century, or the L ' niversity of Rolofnia. which was a seat of learninjif in the rei.tjn of Charlemaji ne. and where, from every ]iart of Kuro])e and even from .Xsia, classes were cfathered year after year when Eton was still a niarsii liy the river. All such tliintis are relative, and so from llu- slaiidiHiint of Western ideas, we may well be satisfied wilii an nrii iu for our scIuki! which is ne.-irly coeval with the establishment of inde- pendent fjovernment in this country by the adojjtion of the Con.stitution. After that date, two decades had not passed before the l ' niversity of Maryland had entered upon a career which, so far as the School of Medicine is concerned, has ]kx-u continuous ever since. As reg ards the School of Law. after a temporary susi)ensioii of its work, it was reorsjanized about thirty-five vears ago. and from tlie ilistin nislied ability of its present learned I ' aculty and their prede- cessors, it stands amonsj the most imi)ortant seats of legal education in this country. . nd last in the organization of its several de])artments is the School of Dental Science, which ranks among the most widely known of the inslilutions devoted to this department of medicine. Of the nniltitude who during these many years have received the diplomas of this Univer- sity as the credintials of their enrollment in their arious professions, a large iiroporlion are. of course, no longer living: but the still living Alumni who have gone forth from these halls are to be numbered bv thousands. And as the institution which has ent them forth watches their careers and earnestly hopes that they may contimie to reflect credit u])on their . lma Alater, so. in their turn, thev may rightfully demand that it should be a leader in the movement now so general for the best education, and that it shoidd re(|uire of its graduates the very higliest qualifications for the i)ractice of their several callings. These demands it not only acknowl- edges to be just, litit it has already largely aiuicipated ihem. . nd so. as the past of this Tni- versitv has in all its departments been honorable, we may well believe that its future will like- wise be honoralilc and ])ros])erous. according to the measure of true prosperity. Tiie oldest departnuiit has. of conrsi-. the longest list of honur bearers to i)oint to. Tor its (last it can refer to the esteem in which it has been ever held, and to the careers of many of its .Mtunni. who have filled posts of honor and resiionsibility in all branches of tin- public medical service, tlie . rmy, the Navy and the .Marine Service, or who have been called to be teachers in many institutions throughout the country, in all the medical schools of this city, in the University of X ' irginia in the South, in Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania in the Xorth, and as far West as the Pacific Coast- .And it is to be remembered that whatever its .Munnii have become since they left these halls, here was the nursing bosom at which they drew their first draughts of professional know ledge. i8