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

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The advanc es which medicine has made of late years are great : but perhaps the greatest of all these advances, greater than any discovery of specific methods of treatment, though these have been most important, greater than antiseptics and antitoxin and the other additions to our therapeutic resources, though these have been numerous and most beneficial ; greater than the devising of operative procedures which thirty years ago were hardly dreamed of, but which have already added many thousands of years to the general sum of human life; greater than any of these by the all-hail hereafter, because having the promise and potency of results exceed- ing any that have yet been achieved, is the elevation of the standard of education in all depart- ments of instruction which has been efl ected of late vears, and which is continuallv being raised higher and higher. On the wall of the corridor leading to the Anatomical Theatre, of the School of Medicine, a student of the University of Maryland drew more than sixty years ago, with rough delineation, it is true, but yet with some real ap]:)reciation of the spirit and power of the original, a copy of Raphael ' s great picture of the fight between the archangel and his foe. It was, perhaps, with a true instinct, and in recognition of the facts that anatomy is at the foundation of all the medi- cal sciences, and that the final purpose of all these and all sciences, whether physical or mental, is that they be used in behalf of good against evil, that the student of long ago placed the picture where, though worn and faded and almost vanished away, it may still be faintly seen. For many years this picture has been associated in the minds of successive generations of students with this their own University, and it may rightly be regarded as a symbol and type of their work. For professional work, whatever its ki nd, is always a conflict, and should be a conflict waged in behalf of good. The scenes of that conflict may appear to be only in the hushed air of chambers of sickness, or in the wards and amphitheatres of hospitals and other places where suffering and pain and wounds are found, but if the veil were withdrawn, these might be seen as portions and parcels of that vast arena upon which is waged with unceasing warfare the ever enduring contest between good and evil. 19

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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

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Board of Regents of the University of Maryland SAMUEL C. CIll ' .W, M. D. Hun. JOHN P. I ' OE. Hon. Cll. kI.F..S E. I ' HF.LPS. FK.WCIS r. . H1.KS. M. I). LOL ' IS .McL.-WE ' I IFF.WY, SI. D. I. E. .VTKINSON. M. 1). F. J. S. (iOkC.XS. M. 1).. D. D. S. .I.X.Ml ' .S 11. ll.XRklS, . 1. 1).. D. D. S. 11. IX. . i.i!i ' ;ki KnciiiK. K. l)()K. ' l•: ■ I ' o.M.i:. I ' n d. RICII.XRl) M. ' FX.AP.LE, Esq. K.WDOI.H WIXSLOW. M. D. TH(). 1. S . . . SHP.V, M. D. W.M. r. r.K.XNTLY, Esq. Ho. . H1•:. K ■ 1). ll. RL. ' N. EDGAR H. CiAXS, Esq. L. E. XEALE, M. D. CHARLES V. NHICHIiLL. M. D.